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The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies released its fiscal year 2027 spending bill (PDF File), and it pays for a Pell Grant increase by permanently ending subsidized federal student loans.The bill cuts the U.S. Department of Education’s budget by 10%, or roughly $8 billion, with deep reductions to K-12 programs, Federal Work Study, and education research. It is the first step in a long appropriations process, but the headline tradeoff is clear: students gain a small Pell bump and lose one of the most affordable loans available to them. Would you like…
On the morning of September 6, 1976, a Soviet Air Defense Forces lieutenant named Viktor Belenko shoved the throttles forward on a MiG-25 Foxbat, peeled away from a training flight over the Sea of Japan, and brought the most feared interceptor in the Soviet arsenal down on the runway at Hakodate Airport with fuel running critically low. He overran the tarmac, blew out the nose tire, drew a pistol, and asked for political asylum in the United States. The aircraft he delivered was the one Western air forces had been trying to photograph for nine years. American and Japanese engineers…
by HopeMy mom went to be with the Lord last night. Nine and a half years since her initial diagnosis with Lewy Body Dementia, eight and a half years since that diagnosis was modified to Parkinsons with Dementia, and just short of four years on hospice care.She has been bed ridden and not responsive for the majority of the last four years.Hospice told us last Friday that the end was near. She began refusing to eat periodically a couple of weeks ago. Her last full meal was Thursday morning. (A week ago today.)She went peacefully, surrounded by all of us…
Almost everything about this tax is bad, and it obscures something much better that we do need.
Putin faces rival visions of war and peace at Russia’s ’Davos’
A pledged asset line or portfolio line of credit allow you to borrow against the value of your investment portfolio, typically at a low rate.Wouldn’t it be nice if you could make better use of money tied in your investment portfolio? Maybe for an emergency or to pay down a high-interest credit card?After all, the money is sitting there waiting for investments to appreciate or collecting dividends from investments.But to access that capital, you’ll have to close out of your investments. That’s basically your only option. Closing out of your investments, depending on what they are valued at, could mean…
In 1948, Clair Patterson was a graduate student at the University of Chicago with a deceptively simple assignment from his advisor Harrison Brown: measure the age of the Earth by counting lead isotopes in meteorites. Brown told him the work would be “duck soup.” It was not. Every sample Patterson touched in his dusty corner of Kent Hall came back contaminated. Every beaker he washed, every drop of water he distilled, every reagent he handled was already laced with lead before the experiment began. The contamination was so thorough that it took him years to get a clean reading —…
Student loan refinance rates have held steady throughout the first part of 2026 as the Fed has held interest rates steady. As of June 4, 2026, student loan refinance lenders are offering fixed rates as low as 3.60% APR and variable rates starting as low as 3.59% APR, depending on credit profile, loan type, income, and repayment term.Credible is offering both the lowest variable rate loans starting at 3.59% APR and the lowest fixed rate loans starting at 3.60% APR.For borrowers with private student loans especially, refinancing to lower your interest rate can save you thousands of dollars over the…
Quantinuum could be valued north of $18 billion given indications for an opening price of about $71.
In 1956, IBM showed businesses a refrigerator-sized storage cabinet that could reach a record in less than a second instead of forcing clerks to shuffle through trays of punched cards. The IBM 305 RAMAC system and its IBM 350 disk storage unit turned fifty spinning aluminum platters into something that looked, for the first time, like instantly reachable corporate memory. The numbers are almost comic now. The disk unit stored five million 6-bit characters, the equivalent of about 3.75 megabytes of data, on fifty 24-inch disks rotating at 1,200 revolutions per minute. The Computer History Museum notes that the unit…