Today, homeowners have more financial opportunities than ever before. Rising property values are creating a powerful source—home equity. Tapping into that value, you’re likely to find two options—a home equity loan and a home equity line of credit (HELOC). You can use both to borrow against your home, but they work in different ways.
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Most employers know their hourly workers aren’t heads-down every minute of their shift. However, time-card discrepancies and adjusted hours have a way of quietly adding up. An OnTheClock survey of more than 830 hourly workers puts numbers on just how common these habits actually are. The survey found that 1 in 4 have clocked
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Blood work used to start with a doctor’s order, usually to diagnose or monitor disease. But people are increasingly using blood work to ask proactive questions like: How healthy am I? Is something beginning to change? Could I feel or function better? In a recent national survey of 1,000 U.S. patients who had undergone
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At 30 employees, one person handling QuickBooks worked fine for the accounts payable department. But at 150, that same setup becomes a month-end bottleneck. Invoices pile up in a shared inbox. Approvals live in Slack threads that nobody can reconstruct. Your auditor asks about the separation of duties, and you’re piecing together an answer
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Many people in the U.S. believe airplane etiquette has gone downhill, and they mostly blame fellow passengers for the drop in civility. It’s just one of the fascinating findings from a new survey by YouGov, commissioned by The Points Guy, on everything travel. If you’ve paid any attention to social media, you know passenger
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When the U.S. and Iran stepped back from the brink in June 2026, the markets calmed almost overnight. Retail investors did not. MarketWise surveyed 1,006 U.S. retail investors to see how they were processing the whiplash, and the mood that came back was less relief than suspicion. Most weren’t buying the rebound, at least
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In the world of dietary trends, proteinmaxxing is taking a back seat to the new obsession: ramping up on fiber, Knowable Magazine reports. Since the summer of 2025, Instagram has racked up more than 10,000 posts captioned with #Fibermaxxing and other fiber-forward hashtags — and the flood doesn’t appear to be dissipating. The trend
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The biggest IPOs in history have raised tens of billions of dollars each, and delivered returns ranging from significant gains to sustained losses. Saudi Aramco raised $25.6 billion in its December 2019 initial public offering, setting the record for the largest in history. SpaceX raised $75 billion on June 12, 2026, offering 555.6 million
Continue ReadingPor Aleena Fayaz, CNN Las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos dijeron el viernes que destruyeron una embarcación que, según afirman, servía como una “estación flotante de reabastecimiento” para embarcaciones que transportaban drogas ilegales en el Pacífico oriental. Pero antes de hundir la embarcación, el Comando Sur de Estados Unidos dijo que infantes de Marina y
Continue ReadingPor Sunlen Serfaty, CNN El arco triunfal de 250 pies (76 metros) propuesto por el presidente Donald Trump tendría efectos “adversos” en decenas de lugares históricos, determinó el Servicio de Parques Nacionales. No obstante, la agencia concluyó en un informe publicado el viernes que el arco debe permanecer en el lugar propuesto, a orillas del
Continue ReadingPor Jacqueline Howard, CNN Los científicos están cada vez más cerca de comprender exactamente cómo se desarrolla el autismo en el cerebro y qué podría funcionar para tratarlo. Mediante inteligencia artificial y datos obtenidos de pequeños cerebros desarrollados en laboratorio, investigadores han trazado las formas en que ciertas mutaciones genéticas asociadas con el autismo pueden
Continue ReadingPor Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, celebró este viernes el nuevo acuerdo petrolero establecido entre su Gobierno y el de Estados Unidos, con el argumento de que significará inversiones e ingresos para los venezolanos e impulsará “el renacimiento” de su país. El pacto, dado a conocer momentos antes
Continue ReadingPor Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Canadá ha contratado a decenas de académicos procedentes de universidades estadounidenses mientras Estados Unidos intensifica sus medidas contra instituciones prestigiosas. El jueves, la ministra de Industria de Canadá, Mélanie Joly, anunció la contratación de 64 académicos, quienes recibirán el respaldo de más de 500 millones de dólares canadienses —más de US$
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The local candidate field is set, and preparations are underway in Deschutes County for the November general election.Deschutes County Clerk Steve Dennison says the slate of local candidates was finalized Tuesday afternoon, marking another step in the process of preparing ballots for voters this fall.“Everything as of Tuesday afternoon at 5
Continue ReadingPor Marshall Cohen, CNN Una corte federal de apelaciones determinó este viernes que los estados pueden regular los mercados de predicción como juegos de azar, un duro golpe para esta industria en auge. Todavía hay demandas relacionadas pendientes en todo el país, y expertos jurídicos creen que la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos terminará resolviendo
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Meet Matt, a three-month-old puppy looking for his forever home through the Humane Society of Central Oregon. Matt and his littermate, Logan, are both male puppies who are expected to grow into large dogs. Humane Society staff say Matt is curious and inquisitive, but surprisingly calm and laid-back for a puppy.
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(KTVZ) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits Thursday against Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, and Washington over state laws that grant in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented students. The four new filings bring the department’s total number of legal challenges against state-level tuition policies for illegal aliens to 21. According to the complaints,
Continue ReadingPor Carolina Peguero y Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español Los hermanos Andrew y Tristan Tate están detenidos en Miami, Florida, donde atraviesan un proceso de extradición a Reino Unido, donde son acusados de violación, trata de personas y posesión de imágenes indecentes de una menor, cargos que ellos rechazan. Sin embargo, un grupo de jóvenes
Continue ReadingPor Alayna Treene, CNN El presidente Donald Trump, oriundo de Nueva York, no visitará la Zona Cero para conmemorar el 25º aniversario de los atentados terroristas del 11 de septiembre. En su lugar, pronunciará un discurso en el Pentágono, según dijeron a CNN dos personas al tanto de los planes. Trump no asistirá a la
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By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will have “adverse” effects on dozens of historical landmarks, the National Park Service found. Nonetheless, the agency concluded in a report released Friday that the arch must stay at the proposed site on the banks of the Potomac River as the project
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