Headline News Archive

2020

October

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• Advice on getting your airline tickets refunded from people who did it. Most, but not all, domestic airlines have complied with refund requests for flights that had been officially canceled, as U.S. law requires.  But

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• Being Black lowers the value of my home: The legacy of redlining. If I picked up my home and moved it 20 miles west to a White neighborhood, it would be worth much more.

• There’s nobody to fix ovens, dishwashers and other appliances. Gone are the days of the lonely Maytag repairman. The repairman of 2020—with few exceptions, it’s still most often a

• Eight countries accepting Americans for remote-work trips. The pandemic has proved challenging for digital nomads, people who travel the world working remotely. With countries closing their borders and air travel heavily restricted,

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• Target shoppers can now make reservations to avoid crowds. The big-box retailer is rolling out new safety measures, including expanded pickup and delivery options.

• Students who counted on work-study jobs now struggle. Work-study jobs may seem like a perk, but in a normal year, the program provides nearly $1.2 billion in help for college for more than 612,000 students

• 1 in 4 Americans already finished holiday shopping. Americans are getting ready to celebrate the holidays with more Zoom calls and online shopping than expected, making them plan ahead of time for their

• Digital hygiene in the Zoom era. Whelp, here we are. In a recent poll, one in four American workers said they’d been working from home entirely. The line between

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• To limit tech, some say a new regulator is needed. Even as the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against Google for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in search and search advertising, a growing number of

• How much does a hotel’s ventilation system matter. The effectiveness of air filtration and ventilation on airplanes is still not totally clear: While some studies suggest the chances of contracting coronavirus on a

• The police can probably break into your phone. At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states now have tools to get into locked, encrypted phones and extract their data, according to years of

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• Judge rejects settlement over stalled student debt relief claims. A federal judge on Monday rejected a proposed settlement between the Trump administration and defrauded borrowers after the Education Department revealed its 

• McConnell moves to head off stimulus deal. The top Senate Republican told colleagues that he had advised the White House against striking a pre-election deal with Democrats to deliver pandemic aid, fearing

• Here's how to get refunded on that international flight. When travelers found themselves with canceled plans as the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Scott Keyes, founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights, says emails began pouring

• Cómo usar la herramienta “Non-filers” del IRS para reclamar cheque de estímulo atrasado. Si usted es uno de los potenciales beneficiarios del cheque de estímulo que debe someter información al Servicio de Rentas (IRS)

• La demanda antimonopolio contra Google, explicada. El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos demandó a Googleel martes y acusó a la compañía de abusar ilegalmente

• PayPal abrirá su red a las criptomonedas. PayPal Holdings Inc dijo el miércoles que permitirá a los clientes tener bitcoin y otras monedas virtuales en su cartera en l

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• FICO scores hit all-time high. The economy is a mess, but your credit score might not be. The average FICO credit score reached a record high of 711 in July despite

• Why your dental bills could go up. Millions of Americans are delaying dental appointments over concerns about coronavirus infection, and that's likely to trigger increased fees for patients, job cuts

• CVS Health will hire 15,000 more workers ahead of flu season. CVS Health announced on Monday that it planned to hire 15,000 workers to prepare for expected increases in coronavirus and flu cases in the United States

• Credit scores are supposed to be race-neutral. That’s impossible. Blacks must make extraordinary efforts to overcome the discrimination that is often hidden in financial policies or products that are supposed to be bias-free.

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• Judge strikes down Trump plan to slash food stamps. A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary

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• Medicare open enrollment is coming. Medicare’s annual open enrollment period begins Oct. 15 and, given the COVID-19 pandemic, financial planners are urging beneficiaries to review and choose the plan

• There is a dark side to the world of student loans. When something is too complex or difficult, people tend to go with the status quo, if something seems impossible to understand, we'll elect to

• Amazon Prime Day: You're not saving as much as you think. There’s always buzz around Amazon’s Prime Day, the sale extravaganza for Prime members, people who pay the company an annual or