You open the mail or check your email and see a notice from State Farm. A dividend payment is coming. For millions of auto customers it averages around $100 per vehicle. Some will receive more, some less. The total adds up to $5 billion—the largest policyholder payout in the company’s more than 100-year history. This…

You check the mortgage rate and your stomach drops. Seven point four percent. A year ago it sat closer to six. The monthly payment on the same house just got noticeably heavier. Yet plenty of first-time buyers are still writing offers. That resilience surprises people who expected higher rates to freeze the entry-level market completely.…

You hear the first reports of a shooting at an elementary school and the clock starts in your head. How long until someone stops it? How many people get hurt in those first minutes? On October 15 in Bend, Oregon, those minutes proved decisive. A 16-year-old entered Silver Rail Elementary School and opened fire. Three…