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What to Do if Your Home Is Losing Value 07/22/2024 08:00pm • Your home's value matters -- it determines what profit you'll see when you sell and is a major factor in determining your overall wealth. In the last few years, home values have soared, giving homeowners a big boost to their underlying equity. While values are still rising in most housing markets, s Marseille signs Hojbjerg from on loan from Tottenham with an obligation to buy 07/22/2024 06:28pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Marseille has signed Tottenham midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg on loan for the season with an obligation to buy. Both clubs announced the deal Monday, with reports saying Marseille will pay 20 million euros ($21.8 million) to make the deal permanent next year. The Denmar Cleveland-Cliffs will make electrical transformers at shuttered West Virginia tin plant 07/22/2024 02:58pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Cleveland-Cliffs announced Monday it will produce electrical transformers in a $150 million investment at a West Virginia facility that closed earlier this year. The company hopes to reopen the Weirton facility in early 2026 and “address the critical shortage of distribu Self-professed 'Wolf of Airbnb' sentenced to over 4 years in prison for defrauding landlords 07/22/2024 01:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man who boasted that he was the “Wolf of Airbnb” was sentenced Monday to over four years in prison for defrauding New York City landlords and a federal pandemic-relief government program. Konrad Bicher, 32, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court Nashville-area GOP House race and Senate primaries top Tennessee's primary ballot 07/22/2024 10:56am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A first-term Tennessee congressman backed by former President Donald Trump will face a Republican challenger who calls the lawmaker ineffective, a contest that is among the top races in the state's August primary election. The primary will also cement who will be the Democr China moves to pep up its slowing economy, lays out roadmap for its future 07/22/2024 07:19am • BANGKOK (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party released a 50-page roadmap addressing long-term challenges confronting the world's second-largest economy, while the central bank cut key interest rates Monday in a surprise move to pep up the struggling property sector. The action by the People's Ban What Is a USDA Loan and How Do They Work? 07/21/2024 08:00pm • USDA loans are mortgages backed or funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Also called USDA rural development loans or rural housing loans, USDA home loans feature low or no down payments and low interest rates compared to conventional loans. How Do USDA Home Loans Work?With a USDA home loan, What to Know About College Early Action and Early Decision 07/21/2024 08:00pm • Senior year is a busy time for high school students, especially those planning to attend college. They usually spend their fall semester putting together college applications, including writing essays and asking for letters of recommendation. About 450 colleges offer one or both of the early admissi Stock Market Sectors 101: A Guide to All 11 Sectors 07/21/2024 08:00pm • The stock market is divided into 11 market sectors based on the Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS. This system, created jointly by Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor's, sorts companies into sectors based on their primary business activities. Investors can then use the sector class Montana attorney general didn't violate campaign finance rules, elections enforcer says 07/19/2024 04:57pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s elections enforcer said he found no evidence that the state's attorney general violated campaign finance rules by inviting another Republican to run against him so he could raise more money for his reelection campaign. Sheila Hogan, executive director of the Montan Vermont farmers take stock after losing crops to flooding two years in a row 07/19/2024 03:56pm • BARNET, Vt. (AP) — Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. This time it was worse. Workers were able to harvest some of the produce before last week's flooding, but the family-owned vegetable Cardmember spending drives American Express second-quarter profits soaring 39% 07/19/2024 07:54am • NEW YORK (AP) — American Express said Friday second-quarter profits jumped 39% as the credit card company benefitted again from a broad increase in cardmember spending as well as more of its customers carrying a balance. Profit reached $3.02 billion, compared to $2.17 billion in the same period a The winner in China's panda diplomacy: the pandas themselves 07/18/2024 11:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — China's panda diplomacy may have one true winner: the pandas themselves. Decades after Beijing began working with zoos in the U.S. and Europe to protect the species, the number of giant pandas in the wild has risen to 1,900, up from about 1,100 in the 1980s, and they are no longe Federal appeals court blocks remainder of Biden's student debt relief plan 07/18/2024 10:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court blocked the implementation of the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, which would have lowered monthly payments for millions of borrowers. In a ruling Thursday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion for an administrative stay file US announces $325 million in funding to boost Puerto Rico solar projects as power outages persist 07/18/2024 08:35pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government announced Thursday that $325 million in federal funds will be available for solar and battery storage installations across Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with chronic power outages. The program, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,