Erin Hartley, 22, is getting their full student loan balance forgiven. Courtesy of Erin Hartley Erin Hartley graduated with about $11,000 in student loans, and received $28,000 in Pell Grants. They planned to penny-pinch and live at home until they paid off all their loans. With Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan, Hartley will have all their…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
A credit score in the 700s or above will help you get a loan with a lower interest rate. kate_sept2004/Getty Knowing what lenders look for in a mortgage borrower is key to understanding the process. Before applying for a mortgage, take steps to get your credit in order and know how much house you can…
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images California’s state senate just passed a bill that would totally change how fast food is regulated in the state. The bill still has to be signed by California Gov. Newsom. Labor advocates say the bill will give workers a voice, while opponents say it could raise prices. The California state…
Daniel Craig in “Glass Onion: A ‘Knives Out’ Mystery.” Netflix Netflix will release 43 new movies to its service from September through December. Traditional Hollywood studios will put 35 movies in wide release in theaters during that time. Theaters are facing a movie drought after pandemic-related delays and a shift to streaming. Theaters are facing…
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The Twitter app logo. Chesnot/Getty Images Just weeks after Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the company reportedly scrapped plans for an OnlyFans copy. The Verge reports that an internal team found that Twitter does a poor job policing harmful sexual content. One former Twitter employee said Musk’s focus on bots and not harmful sexual…
The exterior of a Google store photographed on June 09, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images A Jewish Google employee wrote a letter saying she’s leaving the company because of alleged retaliation. Ariel Koren accused Google of “complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights.” Google has a billion-dollar contract with Amazon and the Israeli…
The JWST has dazzled since it began sending images back to Earth, but sometimes even the most advanced space telescope ever needs a little help from a friend. On Monday, the European Space Agency released a new image of the Phantom Galaxy. Located approximately 32 million light years away from Earth, Messier 74 has been…
Truth Social, the social media platform backed by Donald Trump, is still not available on the Google Play Store. That’s because Google has yet to approve the app due to violations of standards and inadequate content moderation. The company informed Truth Social earlier this month about “several violations of standard policies in their current app…
Elon Musk’s lawyers today filed a motion to delay his trial against Twitter by a month, arguing they need more time to process recent claims by whistleblower Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter. With the motion, Musk’s legal team is attempting to amend its counterclaims against Twitter, using details from Zatko’s legal…