Despite Fed rate cuts, mortgage rates could still rise. Here’s why

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points at its final meeting of 2025, but the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remained high at 6.22%.
Climate setbacks and steps forward from 2025

In a year of both upheaval and hope for our planet, here are a few of the highs and lows of humanity’s effect this year.
US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country

Trump said the Venezuelan president and his wife were “captured and flown out of the Country” to the U.S. following multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital.