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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 7 Ways to Raise Last-Minute Money for College 06/30/2024 08:00pm • Ways to acquire extra money for collegeMany families are unprepared for the often high cost of attending college. According to a recent College Ave survey conducted by Barnes & Noble College Insights, only 44% of families felt ready to pay for their child's first tuition bill. However, the summe Forest Bathing: How Nature and Being Outdoors Can Improve Your Health 06/30/2024 08:00pm • Naturalist and environmental advocate John Muir spent a lot of time in the great outdoors, hiking and simply being in the open air of the American West in the late 1800s and early 1900s. "In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks," he said. It seems Muir was ahead of his time, h 7 of the Best High Dividend ETFs to Buy Now 06/30/2024 08:00pm • High-dividend exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are an increasingly popular asset class, and it's not hard to understand why. A high dividend is synonymous with high investment income. Everyone likes to see their investment capital grow, but growth is not the only benefit of investing in the capital m How Much Should I Spend on Groceries? 06/30/2024 08:00pm • Determining how much to spend on groceries and creating a budget has always been a challenge for many households. In recent years, inflation made it more complicated. Grocery shopping is still not an activity that most shoppers would call cheap, but things have improved. In 2024, grocery budgeting r The Latest | France's first-round voting ends. Bardella calls for rejection of 'dangerous far left' 06/30/2024 04:43pm • France held the first round of an early parliamentary election on Sunday that could bring the country's first far-right government since Nazi occupation during World War II. The second round will come on July 7. The outcome of the vote is highly uncertain. Turnout is unusually high. Three major poli Female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in coordinated attack in Nigeria, authorities say 06/30/2024 04:01pm • MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said Sunday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the the attacks in Borno state, which has been heavi Evacuation orders lifted for some Arizona residents forced from their homes days ago by a wildfire 06/30/2024 01:53pm • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Evacuation orders in Arizona have been lifted for some residents of northeast Scottsdale, days after they were forced from their homes by a wildfire, authorities said Sunday. The Boulder View Fire was 19% contained Sunday after charring nearly 6 square miles (15 square kil Two wildfires are burning near Greece's capital, fueled by strong winds 06/30/2024 12:23pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two large wildfires were burning Sunday near Greece's capital of Athens, and authorities sent emergency messages for some residents to evacuate and others to stay at home and close their windows to protect themselves from smoke. The first blaze, southeast of Athens, began in Former Va. Senate GOP leader clashes with election official over assault case 06/30/2024 11:58am • A few weeks ago, former Virginia Senate GOP leader Tommy Norment contacted a pair of Charles City County election officials with an unusual request. As an attorney, Norment is representing a Republican member of the Charles City Electoral Board, Maria Anne Kinney, whose feud with other election o Biden administration asks for emergency funds for Key Bridge replacement 06/30/2024 11:26am • The White House on Friday reiterated its support for full federal funding to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge in a request to Congress for $4 billion in emergency disaster relief funding. The letter from Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young to House Speaker Mike Johnson sa Summer hours are a perk small businesses can offer to workers to boost morale 06/30/2024 08:08am • NEW YORK (AP) — With summer having gotten off to a scorching start, workers across the country may be dreaming of a seaside escape or cutting out early to watch a movie in an air-conditioned theater. For some, that can be a reality. Business owners have found that offering summer hours – a reduc Fourth of July 2024: What’s open and what’s closed in the DC area 06/30/2024 05:00am • Independence Day will bring an array of closures and modified schedules to D.C., Maryland and Virginia. To help you navigate this Fourth of July holiday and skip the guesswork, WTOP has a look at what's open and what's closed for the upcoming federal holiday. Public transit Metrorail will be open Should gun store sales get special credit card tracking? States split on mandating or prohibiting it 06/30/2024 12:37am • Beginning Monday, a California law will require credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun stores in order to track their sales. But new laws will do the exact opposite in Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Wyoming by banning the u Kenya's urban population is growing. The need for affordable housing is, too 06/30/2024 12:15am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In the heart of the crowded Kibera neighborhood in Kenya's capital, Jacinter Awino shares a small tin house with her husband and four children. She envies those who have escaped such makeshift homes to more permanent dwellings under the government’s affordable housing plan.