What being judgment-proof does and what it doesn’t do can have a major impact on your debt repayment approach. Hanizam/Getty Images Credit card debt has become a serious issue nationwide, with borrower totals now exceeding $1.28 trillion and delinquency rates climbing as borrowers struggle to keep up with their high-rate balances. As that unpaid debt …
The price of gold has dropped considerably this March, especially compared to where it sat in January. Getty Images/iStockphoto Gold investors who got started with the precious metal in recent months, expecting that the metal’s seemingly never-ending price rise would continue unabated, experienced something unfamiliar this March – gold’s price actually dropped. And that decline …
Cyber criminals linked to Iran have accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News Friday. An FBI spokesperson did not have an immediate comment. The breach was first reported by Reuters, which said the hacker group Handala HackTeam took credit for the attack and posted images online …
Consumer confidence slid in March as the Iran war and rising gas prices weighed on Americans’ views of the U.S. economy. The University of Michigan’s preliminary March sentiment index, released Friday, showed consumer sentiment fell 5.8% from 56.6 points in February to 53.3 in March. That marks the lowest level since December 2025. The drop …
Ava Langenhop was always sick. From “the time she was born,” she was “just a sick baby,” the 9-year-old’s mother, Alicia Langenhop, told CBS News. She’d catch any cough or cold. Before she was two months old, she went to the hospital twice for viral infections. Ear infections were constant. Scraped knees turned into skin …
Freya Chen, who is just 9 years old, talks about becoming the first person in the United States to play Wolfgang Mozart’s childhood violin. She’s joined by her teacher, Elizabeth Chang. The two give advice to others who want to play an instrument.
Astronomers have found archival data showing a one-of-a-kind event where a spinning comet appeared to reverse the direction of its rotation, NASA said in a news release. The comet, named 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, originated in the outer solar system and visits the inner solar system every 5.4 years, NASA said. During a pass around the sun in …
Houston police believe they have cracked one of the Texas city’s “most haunting and infamous” cold cases. On Aug. 23, 1990, Cheryl Henry, 22, and her boyfriend Andy Atkinson, 21, were found dead in a then-remote area known in Houston as “Lovers’ Lane.” The case, known in Houston as the “Lovers’ Lane Murders,” remained unsolved …
Billy Idol opens up about highs and lows of his career and says he’s “super lucky” to be alive – CBS News Watch CBS News Rockstar Billy Idol spoke to Anthony Mason about how he broke into music, why he says he’s lucky to be alive and what it’s like to be a grandparent.
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