The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.44% this week, down from 6.53% the week before, according to U.S. News data. Mortgage rates are now at their lowest levels in 2025, which may give ...

The Federal Communications Commission is launching a review of the E-rate program, which funds K-12 broadband connectivity, to “ensure it fulfills Congress’s vision for great educational outcomes,” ...

The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2024, with the average American woman having only 1.6 children. Social Security's finances may be in worse shape than thought. The Social Security Trustees ...

Social Security’s finances may be in worse shape than thought. The Social Security Trustees — who release a report each year on the health of the program that supports about 70 million retirees and ...

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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

ORLANDO, Florida, May 18 (Reuters) - Accelerating inflation in the U.S. and beyond is leaving the Federal Reserve and other central banks with an acute problem – negative real interest rates.

As President Trump prepares for a reported visit to China, Washington will focus on the signals coming out of the meeting. It should also be asking a more uncomfortable question: How much insight into ...

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 6.45% from 6.37%. Applications for a mortgage to buy a home were just 5% higher than the same week one year ago.