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New York-based digital mortgage lender Better.com launched a streamline refinance loan product on Monday that aims to help military veterans and service members save money on long-term interest expenses and closing costs. Better is now offering the well-known Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL) through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The product is available to active-duty service members, veterans and surviving spouses. It includes no appraisal and no income documentation requirements. “The addition of VA IRRRL allows Better to give back to veterans and their families through mortgage offerings that make homeownership simpler and more affordable,” Vishal Garg,…

US President-elect Donald Trump has made two more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January.Tom Homan, 62, will serve as Trump’s “border tsar”, having previously served as the returning president’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, 40, has also been made ambassador to the United Nations, according to statements given to the New York Post.Meanwhile, Trump’s Republican Party are edging closer to full control of the US Congress. They already have a majority in the Senate and need to win just a handful of seats to take the…

Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesBitcoin hit another high on Monday, as the rally in cryptocurrencies continued following Donald Trump’s election win.By 6:58 a.m. ET, bitcoin was trading 3.6% higher at $82,216, according to Coin Metrics. It comes after the flagship cryptocurrency touched $80,000 on Sunday for the first time ever.Other coins also got a boost, with ether up 1.8%, trading around $3,204 after topping $3,000 over the weekend. The decentralized finance token tied to Cardano ticked 2.7% higher, while payments coin XRP took a breather.Memecoins dogecoin and Shiba Inu coin also continued to rise, up…

Opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam looks set to take over the post of prime minister for a third time.Pravind Jugnauth, the incumbent prime minister of Mauritius, has conceded defeat in the parliamentary election, saying his political alliance is headed for a major loss. “L’Alliance Lepep is heading towards a huge defeat. I have tried to do what I can for the country and the population. The population has decided to choose another team. I wish good luck to the country,” Jugnauth, serving as prime minister since 2017, told reporters on Monday. Final results have yet to be officially released, but opposition…

Welp. That didn’t take long. Sadly, it didn’t come as much of a shock, either. On Sunday night, one of the most popular programs on all of television returned — and viewers tuned in specifically to see what fate would befall John Dutton, the patriarch on Yellowstone played by veteran actor Kevin Costner. Formerly played by veteran actor Kevin Costner, that is. Kevin Costner had quite a run at the center of Yellowstone. (Paramount) It came out months ago that Costner and series creator Taylor Sheridan butted heads over the drama’s shooting schedule because Costner wanted to flip his eventual…

Zillow is moving full speed ahead with an ambitious expansion of its mortgage business, leveraging its housing tech innovations to potentially reshape how modern homebuyers finance homes.  In its third-quarter earnings report, Zillow Home Loans revealed an impressive data point: mortgage revenue increased 63% year over year in the third quarter to $39 million, which is primarily due to an 80% year-over-year increase in purchase loan origination volume to $812 million. That’s an annualized $3.2 billion in purchase mortgage business, not far off a top 50 spot on the mortgage leaderboard. And the company has been hiring loan officers at…

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It started as a social media quest for dumplings, but ended with thousands of cyclists bringing traffic gridlock between two cities in central China.What should have been a boost to the ancient city of Kaifeng’s economy backfired when the trend went viral – tens of thousands on rented bikes cycled through the night from nearby Zhenghou for breakfast.A six-lane expressway between the two cities quickly filled with cyclists. Police used loudspeakers to tell them to leave and bike rental firms warned they would remotely lock bikes taken out of Zhengzhou.The event is part of a trend of young Chinese people…

Dave Portnoy Mike Coppola/Getty Images for SiriusXM Dave Portnoy continues to defend Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia after her breakup with Zach Bryan. Portnoy, 47, who hosts the “BFFs” podcast with LaPaglia, 25, and Josh Richards, released a diss track titled “Country Diddy” on Sunday, November 10, via YouTube. The release followed Portnoy and Richards’ original diss track, “Smallest Man.” The track was accompanied by a music video featuring a Lego cowboy character holding a guitar and a piece of paper with the word “NDA” written on it, referencing LaPaglia’s claims that Bryan, 28, allegedly offered LaPaglia money to sign an NDA,…

Higher-paying jobs often mean more pressure — think about surgeons working to save someone’s life, or corporate lawyers responsible for multimillion-dollar business deals. But you don’t need to take a pay cut to be less stressed at work. There are plenty of low-stress jobs that come with six-figure salaries. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) maintains a database of nearly 900 professions, ranking them by stress tolerance on a scale from 0 to 100, which considers the ability to handle criticism and manage high-stress situations. Many of these low-stress, high-paying jobs are found in the sustainability sector. That could be,…