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These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates have increased in recent weeks and remain high today thanks in part to inflation.

Jim Cramer ran through the 10 stocks in the CNBC Investing Club's Bullpen during the November Monthly Meeting.

1. GOP senators: Gaetz nomination to head Justice in serious trouble  The Hill
2. Matt Gaetz, Once a Justice Department Target, Now Targets Justice Department  The Wall Street Journal
3. Donald Trump Likely to Pull Matt Gaetz Nomination, Ex-Prosecutor Predicts  Newsweek

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The poignant and powerful story still resonates, 55 years on

In the scramble to understand the numerous cultural currents that are constantly running through the United States, one of the most instructive ideas to emerge in recent years has come from political science professor Ryan Burge. His project, Graphs About Religion, provides interesting details on the growing number of Americans who identify as evangelical while rarely attending church—if they do so at all.

Last spring, Donald Trump presided over a meeting with the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago resort. According to The Washington Post, Trump promised to fulfill a wish list of policies sought by their industry—while explicitly soliciting $1 billion in campaign contributions from them. Trump made similar promises to other ultrawealthy donors, vowing to keep their taxes low while urging them to cut large campaign checks.

When a storm is named, it can take on an unearthly humanity of its own, become an object of hatred and dread like a person can. Like Hurricane Helene, who tore through the Blue Ridge Mountains of southern Appalachia in late September, after coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. She left particular devastation across western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, as 40 trillion gallons of rain fell in the course of a few nights. Behind her, the rivers came up, and the mountains came down.

No position in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is as important as the attorney general. During his first term, Trump chafed against the post-Watergate tradition of independence for the Justice Department; he has promised to demolish it his second time around. The president-elect openly desired to use federal law enforcement to shield his friends from legal consequences and to target his political foes with vengeful punishments.

It’s become something of a glum tradition in the Democratic Party. After an electoral beating, opinion makers and political elites—along with everyone with a social media account—offer their takes as to why Democrats blew it. For many, it is that the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden didn’t do more to help protect innocent lives in Gaza. For others, it is that Vice President Kamala Harris dared to campaign with Liz Cheney. Senator Bernie Sanders and many others point to the Democratic Party... Читать дальше...

The Israeli high command now sees all of its conflicts as elements of a single, multifront war with Iran.

On the 50th anniversary of the “Arecibo message,” we present a reflection on humankind’s first attempt to send a transmission to intelligent life in the cosmos.

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The Penguins keep makin’ moves.

Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning...

It appears the Lars Eller trade was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back after Pittsburgh got off to a dismal start to the 2024-25 season. Now that we know this iteration of the Penguins won’t be competing for much of anything other than maybe a top-10 draft pick, who will be the next Penguins player to get traded, and what can we expect in return for them? Читать дальше...

Elite higher education in the US often seems to be a caricature of itself. As David Gordon shows in this version of Friday Philosophy, Yale University‘s Jason Stanley has re-defined fascism to include the nuclear family and reading the Classics.

After Ernst & Young walked away, all eyes should be on its previous auditor. The risks include Nasdaq delisting.

Nordstrom dropped their early Black Friday sale earlier this week, so it was only a matter of time before Nordstrom Rack followed suit. Fortunately for us shopping enthusiasts and bargain hunters, that time is now. As it has been over the last few years, Black Friday has come early once again at Nordstrom Rack. The […]

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the season 2 return of Silo on AppleTV+. After what felt like an interminable wait, Silo viewers finally got to see what awaited Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette after she escaped her mile-deep home. It was another mile-deep home. Season 2 of Graham Yost‘s dystopian sci-fi drama that’s based on Hugh […]

Project Sunrise was first announced in 2017 but faced delays because of the pandemic

Republican senators are warning that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) nomination to serve President-elect Trump’s attorney general is in serious trouble, even though Republicans will control 53 seats next year. Gaetz will get a chance to make his case for why he should lead the Justice Department, but Republican senators warn he faces an “uphill” path...

President-elect Trump’s pardoning power once he assumes office is looming over cases involving Jan. 6 rioters, prompting some delays over his promise to grant clemency to supporters who stormed the Capitol in 2021. A federal judge has already agreed to delay a rioter’s trial until after Trump’s January inauguration – just over a week after...

With Republicans securing control of the House, Senate and White House in the election, they are poised to claw back major legislation Democrats have passed to fight climate change. Chief in the GOP's crosshairs are provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act — a massive climate, tax and health care package that contains hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tax credits...

Treasury yields rose the day after President-Elect Donald Trump was picked. The short-term result: It's harder for commercial real estate lenders and borrowers to find common ground.

From Erdem to Louis Vuitton, pick your dream wishlist item from the resort 2025 collections.