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Soaring Inflation Is Making Home & Car Insurance Unaffordable

Soaring Inflation Is Making Home & Car Insurance Unaffordable

American car owners are facing a wall of bad debt to finance vehicles they can’t afford — especially pandemic buyers who took on huge loans to buy overpriced used vehicles that are now depreciating in value. With inflation running hot ...

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Astronomers Discover 27,500 New Asteroids Lurking In Archival Images

Astronomers Discover 27,500 New Asteroids Lurking In Archival Images

There are well over a million asteroids in the solar system. Most don’t cross paths with ...

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In just a few weeks, the Communist Party…

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Condos are disappearing. They persist now mainly in…

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Mapped: Life Expectancy By Region (1950-2050)

Average life expectancy at birth is projected to surpass 80 years in most global regions by 2050, according ...

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A recent congressional hearing strangely resembled the film Groundhog Day. The hearing—titled “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Spent Fuel Policy and Innovation”—not only rekindled a decades-old debate about whether to recycle spent nuclear fuel from reactors; it also provided a platform to relive yet…

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One of the most recent mantras in the financial media is that housing prices rise because there is an inventory shortage. While…

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