Automakers ramp up promotions

A sports car anyone?
U.S. automakers are ramping up promotions ahead of Black Friday to clear out bulging inventories and reassure investors that business is solid.
The biggest promotions are on sedans, compact cars, and sports cars as consumers shift to pickup...

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Mortgage Rates’ Rise Catches Home Buyers — and Lenders — Off Guard

“Anybody who was floating or didn’t lock in a rate is screaming at their lender: ‘How could you do this to me?’” said Guy D. Cecala, chief executive and publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance. “It shot up from 3.5 to 4 percent virtually overnight,” he said, referring to the average 30-year fixe...

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West Antarctica is in huge trouble. But now, scientists say the problem may date back to 1945

Crevasses on Pine Island Glacier. (J Smith.)
Science likes to surprise us. That’s the extraordinary, mind-opening thing about it.
It’s possible that is now happening with one of the most stunning stories yet in the climate change saga — the finding that the enormous glaciers of West Antarc...

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The 2016 Race: This Election Was Not About the Issues. Blame the Candidates.

If you think back to this year’s presidential campaign and recall a lot of articles mentioning Hillary Clinton’s email troubles and Donald J. Trump’s various controversies, you wouldn’t be wrong. If it seems there were fewer articles about jobs, the economy and taxes, that’s because there wer...

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Whoops! Twitter briefly suspends its own CEO’s account

(Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo)
Twitter has not been shy about banning accounts on its network, most recently taking down several high-profile accounts from the “alt-right” movement.
[‘A great purge?’: Twitter suspends Richard Spencer, other prominent alt-right accounts]
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The avid reading habits of Trump's potential Secretary of Defense, James 'Mad Dog' Mattis

President-elect Donald Trump walks out with retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis after a meeting at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster Township, N.J. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Donald Trump has professed that he’s not much of a reader. He told The W...

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If you’ve ever described people as ‘white working class,’ read this

A supporter of Donald Trump stands during a rally on Sept. 17, 2015 in Rochester, N.H. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Somehow America’s largest demographic group caught the country by surprise this year.
The white working class has received enormous attention since Election Day ...

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