Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: The 1% down mortgage Forget 20%. Zillow is offering some homebuyers a 1% down payment, said Matthew Fox in Business Insider. For now, the hefty financing option is “only offered to eligible borrowers in Arizona, though the company intends…
Wisconsin Republicans are already thinking of impeachment for the state’s newest Supreme Court justice, Insider reported. Janet Protasiewicz handily won her seat in April on a platform heavily focused on abortion rights, giving the court a 4-3 liberal majority after a long period of conservative control. But it’s her criticism of the state’s legislative maps…
1 North Korea fires missiles into sea following US-South Korea drills North Korea fired several missiles into the sea on Saturday, South Korean officials said, in an apparent retaliation for extended joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. The missiles were detected off the west coast of North Korea, according to a…
1 North Korea fires missiles into sea following US-South Korea drills North Korea fired several missiles into the sea on Saturday, South Korean officials said, in an apparent retaliation for extended joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. The missiles were detected off the west coast of North Korea, according to a…
This week’s question: A quickly retracted email release from a California congressional candidate announced he was suspending his campaign due to a “lack of joy.” In seven words or fewer, create an honest campaign slogan for a candidate who actually hates running for office and would prefer to lose. Click here to see the results of…
“Bad news: your car is a spy,” Gizmodo reported, citing new research from the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that found new cars to be the worst category for privacy of any product it had ever reviewed since 2017. “If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine…
Safety Europe How a volcano prepared Tenerife to fight wildfires | View caption Hide caption Amid changing climate, much of the world is struggling with wildfires. But in Tenerife, locals have managed to contain blazes without fatalities or loss of homes, thanks to experience learned from previous natural disasters. “All this nature that was destroyed…