Average U.s. Rate On 30-year Mortgage Rises To 3.89 Percent

These offsets are an effort to cancel out one’s own carbon dioxide pollution. But it isn’t an exact science. Salad chain Sweetgreen is adding steak to its menu, an announcement that led to strong reactions online, with customers questioning how that would impact the company’s carbon neutral plans.

The grown-up advice is to put it towards debt and savings. The average taxpayer is getting a $2,852 refund, $75 more than last year, based on the most recent IRS data. So what should you do with that money? Experts generally advise putting it toward debt and savings, but, for many people, that’s unrealistic.

A Chinese media outlet reported that Qu is no longer at Baidu. A top public relations executive from Chinese technology firm Baidu apologized Thursday after she made comments in a series of videos that critics said glorified a culture of overwork. Baidu’s head of communications Qu Jing sparked a public outcry in China after she implied in the videos that she was not concerned about her employees as she was “not their mom” and said she only cared about results.

The state hopes that AI tools will improve public service functions such as road safety and call wait times. Generative artificial intelligence tools will soon be used by California’s government. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Thursday the state will partner with five companies to develop and test generative AI tools that could improve public service.

The boutique hotel in downtown Buffalo reopened in 2012 following a major restoration of the historic building.

Just days before its initial deadline, U. S. regulators say they need more time to decide whether or not to approve Moderna's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine.