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30-Year Fixed Refinance Dips: Mortgage Refinance Rates for May 14, 2025

John Greim/LightRocket/Getty Images Average mortgage refinance rates have been volleying between 6.5% and 7% as fears of both higher inflation and an economic slowdown play tug-of-war with financial markets. Overall, rates are too high for most homeowners to save money from refinancing. After three interest rate cuts last year, the Federal Reserve has left rates […]

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Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow

On a crisp morning in early April, Dan McEvoy and Bjoern Bingham cut clean lines down a wide run at the Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, then ducked under a rope line cordoning off a patch of untouched snow.  They side-stepped up a small incline, poled past a row of Jeffrey pines, then

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, May 14

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword is one of those nice solid blocks, so if you get all the Across answers, the Downs fill themselves in,

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 14, #233

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. When you start seeing obvious last names in Connections: Sports Edition, you might think it’s an easy grouping of four. But today, there are

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VPNSecure Customers Discover Their Lifetime Subscriptions Were Canceled

Lifetime means lifetime. Except when it doesn’t. That has been the dilemma of some VPNSecure customers, whose lifetime subscriptions were canceled by the new owners of the VPN provider — without the customers being informed in advance that the subscriptions would end.  A Reddit user posted a copy of a message they said they received from

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Walmart Brings Back ‘Basket Fee’ for Some Orders: What To Know

Enlarge Image Walmart Plus Assist is a discounted membership program for eligible customers.  Walmart Convenience often has a cost. Retail membership programs like Amazon Prime and Target Circle 360 come with monthly or annual fees. The same applies to Walmart Plus. Membership fees are expected, but sometimes other fees sneak into the picture. If you

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Notion bets big on integrated LLMs, adds GPT-4.1 and Claude 3.7 to platform

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Productivity platform Notion is betting on large language models (LLMs) powering more of its new enterprise capabilities, including building OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 into their dashboard. Even as both OpenAI and Anthropic start building

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