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Seven Financial Considerations When Downsizing for Retirement

With prices going up on everything, you may be looking for a cheaper place to live. To truly evaluate costs, take a hard look at taxes and intangibles.

Kiplinger · Jul 20, 2025

The 10 'Real' Richest Counties in the US

In America's wealthiest counties, high incomes are common, yet the cost-of-living burdens are often lower than those typically found in major metro areas.

Kiplinger · Jul 19, 2025

Here’s How Much You Must Make To Afford a Home in the South’s Most Livable Cities

The southern United States offers numerous locales with high livability scores and relatively reasonably priced homes compared to the rest of the country. Minimum salaries needed to afford a home vary...

GOBankingRates · Jul 19, 2025

Police reassignment at issue in case against Virginia man charged in double-killing

A Virginia judge has ordered prosecutors to share documents about the reassignment of a digital forensic examiner in a double-killing case

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2025

George Mason University faces investigation in Trump administration's anti-DEI crackdown

The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia’s largest public university

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2025

Google Wants To Hit Net Zero By 2030 — So It Signed A Massive Deal With A Bill Gates-Backed Startup That's Still Years Away From Making Energy

Google has signed a groundbreaking agreement with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a nuclear startup backed by Bill Gates, in one of the first commercial deals for fusion energy. The tech giant plans to purchase 200 megawatts of power from CFS's upcoming affordable, robust, and compact fusion plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia,…

Benzinga · Jul 7, 2025

Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across US

Old Glory Club has at least 26 chapters with participants including military personnel, lawyers and civil servants

The Guardian - US · Jul 5, 2025

‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel

Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2025

Jewish parents say their kids were expelled from their school for reporting antisemitism on campus

The children were ‘shattered’ when they learned of their removal from the school, the family’s attorney says

The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2025

US supreme court to weigh transgender student sports bans in key rights case

Justices will hear Idaho and West Virginia appeals on laws barring trans girls from female public school teams

The Guardian - US · Jul 3, 2025