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Student loan rates have continued to hold steady as we begin peak back-to-college season. As of June 9, 2026, private student loan lenders are offering fixed rates as low as 2.54% APR and variable rates starting as low as 3.03% APR, depending on credit profile, degree program, and repayment term.Abe℠ Student Loans currently offers the lowest fixed rate loan available. Student Choice is currently offering the lowest variable rate student loan available.While federal student loan rates are set annually by Congress, private lenders continue to adjust based on market conditions and Treasury yields. Staying current on these changes can save…
Social Security’s retirement trust fund is now projected to run dry at the end of 2032 — and when it does, every retiree faces an automatic 24% benefit cut. A new analysis maps what that means in every state.The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonpartisan fiscal policy group, released a report titled “No State Spared” detailing the local impact of Social Security insolvency. The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund is projected to be exhausted in late 2032, less than seven years away. By law, once the reserves are gone, the program can only pay out…
Investors have recently flocked to ETFs that already have SpaceX exposure. But those funds are about to lose “whatever scarcity value” they once had, one expert warns.
Key PointsEntry-level software developer jobs have declined nearly 20% since 2022, with other AI-exposed entry-level roles like customer service and accounting down 13%, according to a Stanford University study.A Gallup and Lumina Foundation survey found 47% of college students have considered switching majors over AI’s impact on the job market.White-collar desk jobs face the greatest AI risk, while skilled trades and high-touch roles like nursing and teaching are least likely to be affected. Nearly half of college students (47%, according to a Gallup and Lumina Foundation survey) have considered switching majors because of AI’s impact on the job market. Their…
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When marine biologist Julius Nielsen pulled the lens from the eye of a five-metre Greenland shark in his Copenhagen lab, he was holding tissue that had started forming before the United States existed. The proteins in his hands had been laid down sometime in the 1600s — possibly earlier still. They had survived three centuries or more of swimming through near-freezing Arctic water, and they were about to make Somniosus microcephalus the longest-lived vertebrate ever documented. The problem Nielsen had cracked was one that had defeated shark biologists for a century: how do you date an animal that leaves no…
U.K. pharmaceutical giant GSK on Tuesday struck a $10.6 billion deal to buy U.S.-listed biotech company Nuvalent, its biggest acquisition in eight years as it seeks to bolster the cancer portfolio it had previously trimmed.
On the night of January 20, 2018, an amateur radio operator and electrical engineer named Scott Tilley sat in his backyard observatory in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, sweeping a software-defined radio across the S-band looking for a classified American spy satellite called Zuma. He never found Zuma. Instead, his receiver locked onto a steady carrier wave at 2275.905 MHz — a signal NASA had not heard in more than twelve years, broadcast by a spacecraft the agency had officially given up on in 2005. The transmitter was IMAGE, a magnetospheric observatory the size of a kitchen island, and it was…
A federal judge on Monday threw out (PDF File) the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions, ruling that the charge was an illegal tax the president had no power to impose.Trump’s proclamation was set to expire after 12 months unless renewed, but the court’s ruling ends it now. It’s expected that the administration will appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, where the “is it a tax or a fee” question will be argued again. Until a higher court says otherwise, new H-1B petitions revert to their prior fee structure. Would you like to save this?We’ll email…
Why the coming $1,000 videogame console will squeeze hardware stocks.