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What Is a Good Credit Score? 06/30/2024 08:00pm • What is considered a good credit score depends on the type of credit score used. You have multiple credit scores, but the most popular type of score is FICO, followed by VantageScore. Even within each type of score, there are multiple score versions offered to lenders when they want to check your cr FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate 06/28/2024 06:28am • President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election. Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people who were ushered What Is the Average Credit Score? 06/27/2024 08:00pm • The average FICO credit score in the U.S. is 717. The average VantageScore, another frequently used credit scoring model, is 702. "There are hundreds of different credit scores, and they all use the information in your credit report to generate a score," says Rod Griffin, senior director of consumer Is the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card Worth its $95 Annual Fee? 06/26/2024 08:00pm • The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card offers numerous perks for people who like to travel. These perks include travel protections, flexible point redemptions and up to $50 in statement credits to cover eligible hotel spending each year. However, it's fair to question whether the card is worth its $95 Why Is the Middle Class Shrinking? 06/26/2024 08:00pm • A little more than half of Americans (51%) are part of the middle class, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center. But how has this segment changed over time? Between 1971 and 2023, the middle class shrank by 10%, while the upper and lower classes grew by 8% and 3%, respectively. Here When Will the Housing Market Crash? 06/24/2024 08:00pm • The housing market continues to defy gravity and set record high sales prices. In the past, when mortgage rates rose, home prices would decline to maintain affordability. Today, however, with so many existing homeowners locked into their existing low mortgage rates of 4% to 5% or below, there have n Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider 06/24/2024 07:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships in North America are still wrestling with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a company whose software is used widely in the auto retail sales sector. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. a Husband of bride killed in alleged DUI crash on wedding night to receive nearly $1M in settlement 06/22/2024 12:27pm • FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The husband of a bride who was killed in a South Carolina beach road collision on her wedding night last year will receive nearly a million dollars in settlement connected to the crash, which a drunk driver allegedly caused. The Post and Courier reported that Aric Hutchin Sarepta Therapeutics, Ryan Specialty rise; Autodesk, Trump Media fall, Friday, 6/21/2024 06/21/2024 04:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Sarepta Therapeutics Inc., up $37.22 to $160.72. U.S. regulators approved the company's treatment for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., up 91 cents to $27.66. T Car dealerships are being disrupted by a multi-day outage after cyberattacks on software supplier 06/21/2024 04:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships across North America have faced major disruptions this week. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks on Wednesday. That led to an outage that continued to impact many Ex-gang leader facing trial in Tupac Shakur killing seeking release from Vegas jail on $750K bail 06/21/2024 01:12pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas will ask a judge next week to let him out of jail to prepare for his trial on a murder charge. Duane “Keffe D” Davis' attorney filed documents Thursday and a judge s Retail sales rise a meager 0.1% in May from April as still high inflation curbs spending 06/18/2024 02:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers barely increased spending in May from April as still high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates curbed spending. Retail sales rose 0.1% in May, below the pace that economists projected, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And April sales wer Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds 06/18/2024 08:19am • NEW YORK (AP) — Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday — but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. “I was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago, and the bill was for more than $300,000,” said Williams, 38, a Fair Editorial Roundup: United States 06/14/2024 12:41pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 9 The Washington Post says freed hostages are good, now it's time for a truce Some 245 days after Hamas kidnapped them from an outdoor music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, four Israeli hostages are free, liberated in a daring daylight Anxiety over persistent inflation helps drive down US consumer sentiment for third consecutive month 06/14/2024 11:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment fell in June for the third straight month as Americans took a dimmer view of their own finances and worried about persistent inflation. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, dropped to 65.6 this