The best Mint alternatives

I recently found myself on the hunt for a new budgeting app. As a former Mint user, I knew I’d be forced to track my finances elsewhere come March 2024 when Inuit planned to shut down the service for good. I used Mint as a trusted place to track all of my accounts, monitor my credit score, follow a monthly …

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Donald Trump’s populism is turning off corporate donors

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. “GO WOKE, GO broke,” intone Republicans fed up with socially aware American firms. But it is the politicians who are paying for their own ideological zeal. In 2000 and 2004 corporate political-action committees (PACs) gave them twice as much as …

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16 Gruesome Things Moms Did To Kids

7. “My mother had children too young and never holds accountability for the fact that she took it out on us as kids. She was verbally abusive, emotionally unavailable, and contradictory to the point where I did everything I could to stay out of the house from junior high to when I moved out. One moment, she would berate me …

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Biden flexes his cash advantage, GOP megadonors spend big in latest FEC filings

President Biden and the Democratic groups allied with his campaign continue to demonstrate an enormous cash advantage over Donald Trump’s presidential effort with nearly six months until the election. Down the ballot, new Federal Election Commission filings from the first quarter of 2024 show a leading Democratic super PAC outpacing its GOP counterpart in the battle for the Senate. And …

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Israeli ‘diplomatic offensive’ urges sanctions against Iran | News

Push on partners to sanction Tehran comes as Israel mulls military retaliation for Iran’s weekend attack. Israel has launched a “diplomatic offensive” against Iran, calling for sanctions against the Islamic republic. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that he has contacted 32 countries calling on them to impose sanctions against Tehran. The move comes as Israel mulls a …

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The Best Mother’s Day Gifts for Celebrating New Moms & Moms-To-Be

We independently selected these deals and products because we love them, and we think you might like them at these prices. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a commission if you purchase something through our links. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. Prices are accurate as of publish time. As a new mom (or a mom-to-be), …

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3 Reasons To Hunt For Value In REITs Today

Dragon Claws Co-produced by Austin Rogers If you knew nothing about real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) except their stock prices, you would assume they are bad businesses in a bad industry. Since interest rates and bond yields began trending higher in early 2022, REITs (VNQ) have underperformed the S&P 500 (SPY) on a price basis by about 36%. Data by …

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Young people in the UK: how do you feel about voting? | Politics

We’re interested to hear from young people in the UK about how they feel about voting. If you are under 30 and live in the UK, tell us whether you’re planning to vote in upcoming political elections, and if not why not. Are you registered to vote? Do you believe your vote can make a difference? Have you voted in …

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5 Must-Watch Films and Documentaries for Day Traders

Very few films capture the essence of life as a day trader. The pressure of walking the tightrope between profitability and looming losses is rarely captured in mainstream films. While movies such as “Wall Street” and “Boiler Room” glamorize the lifestyle of accumulating wealth by any means necessary, they do not capture the essence of actual trading in the trenches. …

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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy

This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both a massive stellar black hole and its companion star ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have found the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, dubbed Gaia-BH3. It has a mass 33 times that of the sun, dwarfed only by supermassive black holes and those that formed through mergers of other black holes. At about 2000 …

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Menomena Surprise Release New EP The Insulation: Listen

Menomena have surprise released a new EP titled The Insulation. It’s the Portland art-rock group’s first new music since releasing their fifth album, Moms, in 2012. Listen to the three-song EP below. While Menomena never formally broke up, original member Brent Knopf left the band in 2011 and remaining members Danny Seim and Justin Harris continued under the moniker for …

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Should You Relocate as a Retiree? Here Are 3 Pros and 3 Cons to Consider.

One challenge some retirees face is the cost of maintaining their lifestyles in the absence of their paychecks from work. If you spent your career in a higher-cost area, for example, and are now retired, you might be looking to relocate. Doing so could make it possible to stretch your savings and experience less financial stress. But before you make …

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Three reasons robots are about to become more way useful

And researchers at the Toyota Research Institute, Columbia University and MIT have been able to quickly teach robots to do many new tasks with the help of an AI learning technique called imitation learning, plusgenerative AI. They believe they have found a way to extend the technology propelling generative AI from the realm of text, images, and videos into the …

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Conservative Senate GOP targets House-passed warrantless surveillance bill

Senators in both parties are warning the expanded surveillance authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) could lapse after Friday because of a battle over amending the House bill, which has become a target of conservative Republicans and some Democrats. Opponents of the bill could drag the Senate debate past the 11:59 p.m. Friday deadline, which threatens to cause …

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Donald Trump’s tax cuts would add to American growth—and debt

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. OF THE MANY differences between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, perhaps the easiest to quantify has to do with tax policy. Mr Biden has long pledged to raise taxes on both the wealthy and companies. Mr Trump’s main legislative achievement …

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The 6 Biggest Makeup Trends Of Summer 2024

While some people are bold enough to go for an entirely new hair color or style to welcome a new season, others may be more hesitant to change up their whole look (or mess with their color analysis). That’s where makeup comes in — it has the ability to be totally transformative and you can still wash it off at …

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