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• Israel is poised to launch a ground operation in the Gaza Strip following an attack by Hamas.
• In the decade since the last major IDF operation in Gaza, Hamas has acquired a number of drones.
• Israel has counter-drone capabilities, but using them effectively in urban combat may be difficult.

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Personal loan rates depend a lot on the borrower: The rates for the best personal loans tend to be around 6%, and right now, people with good or excellent credit may be eligible for

• A father said he was relieved to find out that his daughter, 8, had been killed by Hamas.
• He said being taken as a hostage to Gaza would have been "worse than death."
• Hamas took 100-150 people hostage following

• The national labor agency says it processed over 2,500 petitions to form a new union in the last year.
• That's up from fewer than 1,700 petitions in the 2021 fiscal year, an

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Average 30-year mortgage rates trended down a bit this week, though they're still significantly elevated compared to where they were a month ago. As inflation falls, mortgage rates are

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The pandemic altered many aspects of jobs as well as careers. And the changes in networking closely mirror how workplace trends have evolved in recent years.

"We're probably better than 50% back to normal

• I visited the Vuori store in New York City. 
• The activewear company is known for its sweatpants and performance materials.
• Vuori landed $400 million in funding from SoftBank, valuing the company at $4 billion.

Vuori is a buzzy activewear brand based in Carlsbad, California, known

• Housing is even more unaffordable now than ahead of the 2008 crash, according to Goldman Sachs.
• But the bank expects limited supply and borrowers being "locked in" at lower mortgage rates to drive prices even higher.
• "We continue to expect home prices to rise at a slow pace

• Former collegiate coach Jon Neeter bought a tennis center in Santa Monica, CA for $40,000 in 2010.
• He ran a successful tennis business for years, barely survived the pandemic, and then pivoted to pickleball.
• He converted his single tennis court into four pickleball courts and business

• The UAW strike is now hitting pickup trucks.
• Smaller trucks at Chevrolet are already in short supply.
• Work stoppages could send trucks back to pre-pandemic inventory levels.

Pickup trucks are about to get a lot harder to find.

A month into the United Auto Workers union's strike at Ford, GM, and Stellantis, inventory of GM's midsize pickups is down significantly, according to new data from Cars.com