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Jared Padalecki as Camden Casey and Max Thieriot as Bode Leone. Eric Milner/CBS Max Thieriot’s Bode Leone is no longer the only fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants firefighter in Edgewater now that Jared Padalecki’s Camden Casey has rolled into town. Warning: Spoilers below from Fire Country season 3, episode 5. During the Friday, November 15, episode of Fire Country, viewers got a taste of who Camden (Padalecki) is when he showed up at Smokies wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey, shorts and flip flops. “That was intentional,” Thieriot, who plays Bode in addition to being the show’s cocreator, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday,…

Sam Valverde, currently serving as the acting president of Ginnie Mae, is resigning from his position as of Nov. 30, 2024, according to an announcement made by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. Gregory Keith, SVP and chief risk officer at the company, will step in as acting president upon Valverde’s departure. Sam Valverde Valverde assumed the role following the resignation of Alanna McCargo earlier this year, after having previously served as principal VP and COO at the company since joining in 2022. He was Ginnie Mae’s first Latino executive and its first Latino leader…

One Starbucks customer has been working on visiting every Starbucks store since 1997.Winter, a Houston native, is on track to visit his 20,000th store in the next few weeks.Starbucks’ status as a “third place” has slipped since the 1990s, Winter said.Later this month, a man named Winter plans to set foot in his 20,000th Starbucks store.He is hoping it will be one in Plano, Texas, the city where he first came up with the idea of trying to visit every company-owned Starbucks store back in 1997 while spending time in the cafés hanging with friends. “I just wanted 20,000 to…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is certain the war with Russia will “end sooner” than it otherwise would have done once Donald Trump becomes US president.Zelensky said he had a “constructive exchange” with Trump during their phone conversation after his victory in the US presidential election.He did not say whether Trump had made any demands regarding possible talks with Russia, but said he’d not heard anything from him that was contrary to Ukraine’s position.Trump has consistently said his priority is to end the war and stop what he says is a drain on US resources, in the form of…

Play video content TMZSports.com The UFC has no shortage of star power at its events — in and out of the Octagon — so, who’s gotten the loudest pop from the crowd?! Dana White has an answer. Play video content 6/1/24 UFC/ESPN+ “When you think about fighter walkouts, whenever a fighter walks out to the [Octagon] — I mean, the two biggest that actually shake the arena are President Trump and Conor McGregor, two of the biggest fight walkouts ever,” the UFC boss told Babcock on the TMZ Sports TV show (airs nightly on FS1). Of course, UFC 309 is…

Commissions haven’t changed much since the NAR settlement terms went into effect, but early signs show where things may be heading, dueling surveys by AccountTECH and Inman Intel show. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025. Despite fears that commissions would face downward pressure in the wake of the National Association of Realtors’ antitrust lawsuit settlement terms going…

The 10-year Treasury yield was marginally higher on Friday, capping an eventful week of inflation data and comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggesting the central bank may not be as aggressive on its rate-cutting campaign going forward. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was higher by about two basis points at 4.439%. The 2-year Treasury note yield last traded at about 4.307%, a rise of roughly 1 basis point. Last week, the yields on the 10-year and 2-year ended at 4.31% and roughly 4.25%, respectively.One basis point equals 0.01%. Bond yields and prices have an inverse relationship.Fed…

United States President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China will meet on Saturday in what is expected to be their last face-to-face meeting during Biden’s term as Beijing braces for a Donald Trump presidency in Washington. The two leaders are attending a two-day heads of state meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group in Lima, Peru, that began on Friday. Saturday’s meeting will be the third time the two will meet in person since Biden took office. Relations between China and the US, the world’s most important superpowers, had nosedived during Trump’s first term as president, when…

Piers Morgan has a lot to say about some recent scandals swirling around Prince Harry. And none of it paints The Duke of Sussex in a very positive light. As you may have heard, Prince Harry was honored over the summer at the ESPYs as a recipient of the Pat Tillman Award for Service. This award is handed out to individuals who have made significant contributions that echo the legacy of the former NFL player and US Army Ranger, who enlisted after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visit Nigeria Unconquered,…

Should the goal of marketing technology be to make it so that a loan officer never needs to log in? Or, should LOs be encouraged to engage with marketing tools as much as possible in order to help them build their own brand and connections? I started in the mortgage industry in 2015, working for large banks that were heavily invested in using technology to simplify the loan process for everyone involved. Ordering an appraisal was as easy as pushing a button. Loan conditions were discussed via live chat and uploaded to an online portal where employees at another location…