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Zing Images/Getty Images: Illustration by Issiah Davis/Bankrate Key takeaways USDA loans are government-backed mortgages for borrowers buying in specific, eligible rural areas. These loans don’t require a down payment, and they have fairly lenient credit score requirements. Hoewver, USDA mortgages also come with income and loan limits that vary by…
My boyfriend and I floated back to my apartment after dinner and a comedy show, feeling the warmth of pizza and laughter. As we cuddled up on the couch, we began to talk about moving in together. By then, we’d only been together for six months. We knew this was…
Facebook and Instagram were suffering from widespread outages on Friday morning.Outage reports spiked on the third-party website DownDetector.com.”We’re aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services,” Meta’s communication director, Andy Stone, said in a post on X. “We’re working on it.” Meta’s systems dashboard page also showed “high disruptions”…
To outperform the masses, we must take more risk than average. One way to do so is to invest in venture capital. However, venture capital is a form of patient capital, and patient capital requires time. That is the one resource older investors have less and less of. At 50…
This as-told-to essay is based on several conversations with Rory Phillips-Hunter, a 37-year-old estate and maintenance manager at a farm in North West England. Born in the Scottish Borders, he is a Scottish national soccer fan, known collectively as the Tartan Army.I was at the game when Scotland beat Denmark…
The 2026 World Cup — expected to be the most profitable in the tournament’s history — kicked off on Thursday.FIFA said it could generate $13 billion in revenue from the four-year cycle that concludes with the roughly five-week-long tournament. It estimated that the World Cup could add about $17.2 billion…
Dave Lewis had what it took to land jobs at some of the most sought-after Big Tech companies. But after getting laid off twice in three years, he found himself grappling with where he fit into the future of tech.Lewis spent a decade at Google, was laid off by Amazon,…
I spent over eight hours on TikTok last weekend.Why? I’ve been busy playing dozens of TikTok’s new mini games — popping pimples, running an oil company, and giving very hairy women makeovers.If I open TikTok now, within a few flicks of the thumb through the main feed, I’m getting ads…
My daughter Cameran was an easy baby and an even easier child. She slept through the night and often carried a book at daycare, even while she was playing. Books held special meaning for both of us. As a toddler, she’d back into my lap and say, “Read a book,”…
A US task force focused on defeating drone threats recently put a new autonomous counter-drone system to the test at the US southern border.The Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or JIATF-401, is an Army-led counter-drone effort created to help the Pentagon and other federal agencies move faster on systems for…
