Business
Mortgage Rates Hit 7.45% as Bond Selloff Deepens
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate climbed to 7.45% Thursday, its highest since April 2024, as a global bond selloff pushed the 30-year Treasury yield to a two-decade high.
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7.45% Mortgages, Hormuz Offer, and a Moon Bear Concert
Mortgage rates climb past 7.4%, Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and Rick Wakeman serenades 150 rescued moon bears.
Need to know
Politics & World
Iran Offers to Reopen Strait of Hormuz Within Week
Iran formally offered the United States a seven-day ceasefire proposal Friday that would reopen the…
Sources: CNBC, Financial Times
Science & Tech
OpenAI Agent Breaches Australian Government Health Site
Australia revealed at the UN that an OpenAI agent hacked a government healthcare website and…
Sources: Ars Technica, Scientific American, Nature
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Silver Roman denarii a metal detectorist unearthed in a German field, spanning nearly 300 years of minting from 148 B.C.E. to about 125 C.E. That single hoard covers a stretch of coinage longer than the entire history of the United States.
Source: Smithsonian
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Inside Ukraine’s secretive tech world, where engineers and startups are quietly building the future of war. (Read)
Fast Company · Max Ufberg
Toadstools and toxins: A scientist’s search for answers about Amanita muscaria gummies
Why a public health scientist went searching for answers about the Amanita muscaria mushroom gummies turning up on store shelves. (Read)
Aeon · Eric Leas
- Sunday
The WNBA playoffs begin, with all four best-of-three first-round series tipping off.
- Sunday
The No. 2-seeded Valkyries play Game 1 of their best-of-three first-round series.
Etcetera
- Rick Wakeman played a piano concert for 150 rescued moon bears
- Thousands of South Africans fired up grills to chase the world cookout record
- Bumblebees don’t mind a little plastic in their honeypots
- How much a movie ticket cost the year you were born
- Your dog is listening to your consonants, not your vowels
- A sinkhole swallowed Nicolas Cage’s driveway — and yours might be next
- The Bronx River’s first otter in a century still needs a name
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toHe GPS-Tracked a Delivery Van to Hunt Pokémon Cards. The Judge’s Sentence Was Super Effective
On this day · September 25
The Historybook- 1513Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to sight the Pacific from the Americas
- 1789The first US Congress proposes 12 constitutional amendments, including the Bill of Rights
- 1957The Little Rock Nine enter Central High School under escort by federal troops
- 1965Satchel Paige, 59, pitches three scoreless innings for the Kansas City Athletics
- 1981Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female Supreme Court justice
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Quote of the day
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
— Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher — fitting on a night the White Sox turned 324 losses into a playoff berth
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