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• House Speaker Mike Johnson is much less wealthy than other members of Congress.
• He doesn't trade any stocks and has a home mortgage valued between $250,000 and $500,000.
• He's made more than $120,000 since 2018 teaching online classes at Liberty University.

The new

• The strong GDP report isn't a sign the US has dodged a recession, Mohamed El-Erian said. 
• High interest rates still pose a big threat to households, business, and the US government.
• That poses a "significant headwind to economic activity," and the outlook for 2024 is uncertain. 

This quarter's US GDP numbers came in hot, but that doesn't mean the US economy is

• Israel said it would launch a ground invasion of Gaza after the October 7 terrorist attacks. 
• But three weeks on, no such invasion has happened. 
• Here are several reasons why the invasion has been delayed. 

Shortly after the

Microsoft is reorganizing its Xbox gaming and marketing leadership, less than two weeks after acquiring Activision Blizzard. Microsoft is promoting Matt Booty to president of game content and studios, including the new responsibility of ZeniMax, and Sarah Bond to Xbox president, overseeing all Xbox platform and hardware work. On the

Winter Vivern, believed to be a Belarus-aligned hacker, attacked European government entities and a think tank starting on Oct. 11, according to an Ars Technica report Wednesday. ESET Research discovered the hack that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube, a webmail server with millions of users, and allowed…

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• After I got into Yale, I couldn't shake the thought that it was because of affirmative action.
• Eventually, I accepted that I would never know for sure and that I should move forward.
• I now do everything I can, including overworking myself, to prove I belong. 

This has been a bit of a secret, but when I applied to Yale, I chose to apply as an African American

• Las Vegas home prices are finally starting to drop, following a pandemic real estate boom.
• The median listing home price as of August 2023 was $456,848, down 2.7% from August 2022.
• There are two and three-bedroom homes available for well under $300,000.

Home prices are