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Delirium vs. Dementia 09/30/2025 08:00pm • In her late 60s, your mom goes to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. Within hours, she's confused and agitated, insisting she's at home and not in a hospital bed. Medical professionals call this delirium, which is an abrupt and often reversible altered mental state. A decade later, your mom Fall Allergies: Your Guide to Relief and Prevention 09/30/2025 08:00pm • Fall allergies inflict symptoms that can make you feel annoyed and miserable. Fall allergy season ranges from mid-August until the first frost, says Dr. Purvi Parikh, an allergist and immunologist based in New York City and a spokesperson for the nonprofit Allergy and Asthma Network. Nationwide, abo Personal Loan vs. Credit Card Rates: Why Borrowing $5K Could Cost You Way More 09/30/2025 08:00pm • If you need to borrow quickly without putting up collateral, you have two realistic choices: personal loans and credit cards. In recent years, however, borrowing with credit cards has become much more expensive. Here's the latest information about personal loan vs. credit card rates and how to save What you need to know about new DC area laws in effect on Oct. 1 09/30/2025 05:45pm • There are hundreds of new laws that go into effect on Oct. 1 in the D.C. area. These include changes to driving, cannabis, criminal justice reform and prescription drug disposal. Here's a look at some of the new laws in effect Wednesday: District of Columbia Pets in housing: The D.C. Pets in 7 Best Semiconductor ETFs to Buy in 2025 09/29/2025 08:00pm • In August, the U.S. government unofficially created a new breed of government-sponsored enterprise. Toward the end of that month, the Trump administration announced an $8.9 billion investment in Intel Corp. (ticker: INTC) common stock. The funding was unconventional. It was financed with $5.7 billio Should You Use a Personal Loan to Pay Off Student Loans? 09/29/2025 08:00pm • Refinancing your student loan debt into a personal loan may seem like a way to simplify payments and escape federal loan complexity. Before you make the switch, understand what you might give up and whether it's worth it. Can You Use a Personal Loan to Pay Off Student Loans?Personal loans typically What a Government Shutdown Means for Mortgage Rates 09/29/2025 08:00pm • As the federal government nears its Sept. 30 funding deadline, a shutdown seems increasingly likely. And since the government and general economy are essentially intertwined, a shutdown could impact borrowers seeking mortgages. The good news first: Mortgage rates sometimes fall during government shu Does Medicare Pay for Hearing Aids? 09/29/2025 08:00pm • Hearing loss becomes increasingly more prevalent as we get older. In fact, more than 37.5 million American adults experience hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Untreated hearing loss doesn't just cause frustration with daily living. The c Pirates to keep Don Kelly as manager after improvements in second half 09/29/2025 06:33pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Don Kelly feels like he spent his first couple of months as the interim manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates drinking from a fire hose. At some point after the All-Star break, the pace of the job started to slow down. And a season that was on the verge of careening out of control wh The Latest: Congressional leaders meet with Trump as possible government shutdown looms 09/29/2025 06:29pm • Democratic and Republican congressional leaders met at the White House on Monday with President Donald Trump in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides thus far have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions. If government funding legislation isn’t 1 man killed in Cuba as Tropical Storm Imelda and Hurricane Humberto threaten Bahamas and Bermuda 09/29/2025 06:24pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas closed most schools Monday as Tropical Storm Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba where landslides killed at least one man. The storm was located about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Great Abaco Island In UN speech, Beijing makes clear its intent to remold global norms, seizing on Trump's retreat 09/29/2025 06:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardly a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed his “Global Governance Initiative,” Beijing made its intent clear at the most global of forums — that it should, and is qualified to, help shape the world order even as the United States tips more inward under Donal Mansolino is a candidate, but his status is uncertain as the Orioles eye their next manager 09/29/2025 06:08pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Tony Mansolino remains in limbo as manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Team president Mike Elias said Monday the Orioles would consider other options for their managerial position, but Mansolino — who was the interim manager for most of this season — would be a candidate. Both M From all over the planet, they came to the UN with a message: Fix things, particularly yourself 09/29/2025 04:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not polite, as a general rule, to visit your hosts and criticize the way they do things. Unless, that is, you’re helping to pay the rent. World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations doing just that, convening at its grandiloquent headquarters to tell each Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion 09/29/2025 03:56pm • Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL," “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired by an investor group including Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in the largest private equity-funded buyout in history. The investors, who also include a firm managed by Jared