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U.S. News Money Surveys 2025: 6 Responses That Caught Our Eye 12/09/2025 07:00pm • Each year, the U.S. News money team conducts regular surveys focusing on a range of financial topics. These surveys help inform our reporting and gauge the financial health, habits and attitudes of Americans from year to year. We ask savers to reveal their emergency fund balance. We ask homebuyers w Why the Fed Rate Cut Won't Move Mortgage Interest Rates 12/09/2025 07:00pm • The Federal Open Market Committee, the rate-setting body of the Federal Reserve, voted to cut interest rates by 25 basis points in its December meeting. But those who are waiting for mortgage rates to fall shouldn't expect a quarter-point drop anytime soon. That's because Fed policymakers set the fe What the Fed Rate Cut Means for Credit Cards 12/09/2025 07:00pm • The Federal Reserve has cut rates for the third and final time this year. At its Dec. 10 meeting, the Fed reduced rates by 0.25 of a percentage point, making the new federal funds rate 3.5% to 3.75%. This move doesn't come as a surprise to a lot of economists, with many predicting the Fed was going Díaz agrees to $69M, 3-year deal with World Series champion Dodgers, AP source says, leaves Mets 12/09/2025 06:58pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Closer Edwin Díaz has agreed to a $69 million, three-year contract with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject to a Flick downplays Yamal's reaction to late substitution in Barcelona's 2-1 win 12/09/2025 06:47pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona coach Hansi Flick downplayed Lamine Yamal's reaction to being substituted late in the team's 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Tuesday. Yamal was replaced by Roony Bardghji in the 89th minute of the league-phase game. He walked off with a Judge orders Georgia to continue hormone therapy for transgender inmates 12/09/2025 06:08pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has permanently ordered Georgia's prison system to keep providing some kinds of gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners, although the state plans to appeal. U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert last week ruled that a new state law denying hormone therap DOJ ends monitoring of illegal dumping in Houston in retreat from environmental justice 12/09/2025 05:33pm • HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of environmental justice initiatives. Federal authorities quietly ended the monitor What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines? 12/09/2025 05:29pm • It’s normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations -- but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that’s under attack by the Trump administration? That’s getting more likely: The nation’s leading doctors groups are in an unprecedented standoff with federal health Nigerian soldiers open fire on protesters in the northeast, killing 9, witnesses say 12/09/2025 05:21pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian Army soldiers opened fire and killed nine women protesting the army's handling of communal clashes in the northeastern Adamawa state, witnesses and Amnesty International told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The women were protesting on Monday along a major road in A Zelenskyy reaffirms his refusal to cede land to Russia as he rallies European support 12/09/2025 05:08pm • ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. “Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territor EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading 12/09/2025 04:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of A.J. Hinch has mastered the art of sidestepping questions about Tarik Skubal 12/09/2025 04:14pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A.J. Hinch has mastered the art of smiling and sidestepping the one question he keeps hearing at the MLB winter meetings. The Detroit Tigers manager has no interest in discussing the possibility of losing his ace, Tarik Skubal, this winter. Instead, Hinch wants to talk about S Inter Milan suffers early injuries in Champions League clash with Liverpool 12/09/2025 03:56pm • MILAN (AP) — Inter Milan was forced into two changes in the opening half hour of its Champions League match against Liverpool on Tuesday. Midfielder Hakan ÇalhanoÄŸlu hobbled off in the 11th minute with an apparent right thigh issue and he was replaced by Piotr ZieliÅ„ski. Less than 20 minutes la Trump threatens funding for Chicago transit after woman set on fire 12/09/2025 03:20pm • President Donald Trump's administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train in November. Gov. JB Pritzker’s office said in an email to The Associated Press on Supreme Court questions limits on political party spending in federal elections, hearing GOP appeal 12/09/2025 03:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back a Republican-led drive that would erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president and overturn a quarter-century-old decision. A day after the justices