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Airfares have surged in 2026, so it’s worth knowing how to get money back if your fare drops after booking. Several new services now help you do exactly that — without you needing to lift a finger. These relatively new services improve upon existing price-monitoring tools by automatically claiming the savings for you from the airline,…

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The drive to build more data centers — the massive, costly facilities powering the AI boom — has emerged as a lightning rod for candidates in the 2026 midterms. “It’s the confluence of hyper-localized concerns with broader worries about AI, and who controls it and who benefits from it,” says Christopher Borick, professor of political…

In the first week of August, the average 30-year mortgage rate stayed mostly flat at 6.63% APR. This is three basis points lower than a week ago. A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point, and we calculate our weekly average using daily APRs provided by Zillow over the past five business days….

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