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9-year-old girl dies after going under anesthesia for dental procedure at San Diego office: A 9-year-old girl died hours after she went under anesthesia for a dental procedure at a San Diego office where a dentist had been investigated after a patient nearly died.

NASA astronauts open up about being 'stuck' in space for 9 months: In their first public comments since their dramatic return to Earth, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore said they were surprised by the intense focus on their mission.

Miami bus driver shoots and kills 2 passengers after argument: A shooting involving a bus driver and passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus left two men dead early Sunday morning. Police were dispatched to the corner of a shopping plaza at Northwest Seventh Avenue and 183rd Street at 2:50 a.m. in Miami Gardens, a suburb to the north of Miami.

Nonprofit groups and Democrats sue Trump administration over election executive order: President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul the nation’s elections faced its first legal challenges Monday as the Democratic National Committee and a pair of nonprofits filed two separate lawsuits calling it unconstitutional.

Why Republicans are at risk of underperforming in a Florida special election: From the Politics Desk: No Democrat in America won a House seat last year in a district even remotely as pro-Trump as the two in Florida where special elections will be held Tuesday.

Around the World

French far-right leader Le Pen sentenced to prison and banned from office in embezzlement trial: Far-right French leader Marine Le Pen was handed a four-year prison sentence and banned from holding public office for five years by a French court Monday, in what could be the biggest setback for her political cause in a generation.

3 U.S. soldiers found dead in Lithuania; 1 still missing after vehicle is swallowed by peat bog: The bodies of three U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania during a training exercise last week have been found, and a fourth soldier remains missing, military officials said Monday.

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Richer, Wiser, Happier

Home equity moves to make without an April Fed meeting scheduled: Home equity loan interest rates are driven by multiple factors. One of the most prominent is the Federal Reserve, and the bank's interest rate and monetary policy, specifically. When rates are hiked, rates tend to rise for many borrowing products, arguably most noticeably in the home equity borrowing market. At the same time, when inflation is cooling, the Fed feels more comfortable cutting interest rates, as it did three times in the final four months of 2024. As a result, interest rates on home equity loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) have steadily declined, with HELOCs, in particular, dropping to 18-month and two-year lows, respectively, just in the first three months of 2025.

3 Popular Retirement Decisions You May End Up Regretting | Maurie Backman, Fool. Retirement is unquestionably a time of change. And there are a lot of reasons for that. For one thing, you're going from holding down a job to having your days free. You're also going from collecting a steady paycheck to having to rely on what's hopefully a combination of savings and Social Security. Because retirement represents such a huge shift, a lot of people use it as an opportunity to make other changes in their lives. But here are a few retirement decisions that could end up backfiring on you.

Should you pay credit card debt with your tax refund?: Consumer credit card debt hit a record high at the end of 2024, passing $1.2 trillion for the first time in history. The climbing debt figures make sense in the context of the final months of 2024. Inflation rose for three straight months to end the year and holiday spending was up 4% year-over-year, according to the National Retail Federation. Also, credit card interest rates remained high, with the average rate hovering around 23%.

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