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A $10,000 dog surgery is tearing a couple apart — financial advisors weigh in on when it's worth spending big on a pet
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (1034+ words) More than half of Americans have a pet and according to Pew Research just over a third actually own more than one. And many of those pets have it pretty good, with 97% of pet owners describing their animal as part…...
Elon Musk's 100-million-sq-ft Terafab plant in Grimes County, Texas pushes neighbors to sell as property values shift
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (714+ words) Elon Musk is buying land in Grimes County, Texas, and one of the residents whose land backs onto the site is already trying to get out. Danny Cross has owned 31 acres below Gibbons Creek Reservoir for 22 years, according to local…...
'Junk' real estate fees cost U.S. consumers $2 billion a year, study finds — how to spot hidden brokerage charges before closing
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (771+ words) With housing prices and interest rates high, U.S. property buyers have enough trouble landing a new home without dealing with unnecessary, even predatory, fees. Yet that’s what they’re getting anyway, according to a new study. “It is difficult for brokers to…...
Berkshire Hathaway killed a 14-quarter selling streak with $23.5B of stock buys — $10B went into 1 company at a price you couldn't get
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (862+ words) On June 2, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) set the price on $18 billion of new stock it was selling to public investors, part of an $84.75 billion effort to raise money for its artificial intelligence buildout. Anyone who got shares in that sale paid…...
LA Metro's 'One Car Challenge' pays households up to $600 to park a car for 5 weeks — an app tracks your odometer to make sure you stick with it
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (579+ words) Los Angeles County is paying people to stop driving. An LA Metro experiment — the One Car Challenge — is giving eligible households up to $600 to keep one of their cars parked at home for five weeks and give getting around without…...
37% of Americans want a 'mini retirement' by 46 — but most say they need $530,000 saved first. Here's how to plan one for far less
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (1056+ words) Financial planning almost always means retirement — the big stop at the end of a career. But in a survey HSBC published in September, 37% of the Americans polled had a nearer one in mind: a “mini retirement” of six to 12 months,…...
Trump boasts Venezuelan oil paid for 48-minute war 'many times' over
1+ week, 1+ day ago (754+ words) Seven months after a brief U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. effectively controls the country’s oil. President Donald Trump is boasting about it. During a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Trump talked up…...
UFC lost $30 million on the Freedom 250 White House event — parent company TKO called it ‘a roaring success’ anyway. Here’s why
1+ week, 2+ day ago (522+ words) It took an eight-figure loss to bring UFC’s seven-fight extravaganza to the White House this June. In its Q2 2026 earnings call, UFC’s parent company TKO Group Holdings reported operating the special UFC Freedom 250 event on President Trump’s birthday at a $30-million…...
Elon Musk wants up to 20 gigawatts for SpaceX AI — a city's worth of power — and the cost could hit household electric bills
1+ week, 2+ day ago (810+ words) Elon Musk spent part of SpaceX’s first earnings report since its June IPO explaining how much electricity he plans to buy and the number kept going up as he talked. He told investors on Aug. 4 that SpaceX would end this…...
You think it’s funny, KFC?’: A customer says he got just 35 of the 50 popcorn chicken pieces he paid for
1+ week, 2+ day ago (636+ words) When you pay for a 50-piece bucket of popcorn chicken, you reasonably expect the math and the chicken to add up. But content creator Atticus says his recent KFC order came up 15 pieces short. In a video posted to TikTok,…...