If your new job comes with a pension, you may wish to roll over the retirement savings you have in a 401(k) plan from an old employer into your pension. While there’s much to like about having a pension, there are several factors you must consider to determine if this option is right for you.
Rates on 30-year refinance mortgages inched down a single basis point Thursday to a 6.96% average. That continues a yo-yo pattern just below 7%—a threshold last crossed in mid-February. The current average is about a quarter percentage point higher than the 2025 low of 6.71%. Though still improved vs. this year’s high-water mark of 7.30%
People with comfortable incomes tend to pay off their credit card bills every month to avoid fees and interest, plus they collect cash-back rewards, travel points, and other perks to boot. These people, explains Annie Lowery at the Atlantic , are known in the industry as the “transactors.” To them, a credit card is a
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An orbital rocket launched from a Norwegian spaceport, the first launch of its kind from European soil, crashed seconds after lift-off on Sunday. The German start-up company that built the rocket, Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, southeast of Munich, still hailed the test flight a success. It said the test flight made the company the first commercial
The top U.N. official has warned that South Sudan is on the brink of renewed civil war, criticizing the government’s decision to delay its latest peace effort. By Nathan Morley Nicolas Haysom described the situation as “dire,” urging President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar to prioritize the needs of their people over personal
This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. A Columbia University activist with a green card, a Georgetown University academic with a student visa, a Brown University kidney transplant specialist with a work visa: They are among the people who, despite having legal permission to be in the U.S., have recently been detained by immigration authorities or
What About Nintendo Fans? Photograph: Nintendo It’s a shame that two of the best retro gaming consoles in recent years, the NES Classic Mini and the SNES Classic Mini , have been discontinued. Both feature great designs with a miniaturized look that’s true to the originals, silky performance, and strong game lineups of Nintendo’s greatest
As someone who enjoys a lot of good food, there’s something about smoked meat that’s always enchanting. There are no shortcuts, just a lot of time and effort, and the scale required often means bringing friends and communities together to eat. You might think it’s odd that someone from Portland would love barbecue so much
In Brief Posted: 2:04 PM PDT · March 30, 2025 Image Credits:Matt Anderson Photography / Getty Images Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was unexpectedly added to a Signal group chat with 17 U.S. government officials who were discussing imminent airstrikes in