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The federal government announced new programs Tuesday that would provide up to $800 billion to stimulate mortgage lending, business and auto loans and use of credit cards. The move had a dramatic effect on mortgage rates.

It's the home where Jamie Lee Curtis' character lived in the 1978 slasher film Halloween. It was in a fictional Illinois town, but it's really in South Pasadena, Calif. It's listed for $1.8 million.

It's getting more expensive to borrow money, with rates on mortgages, car loans and credit cards heading higher. Here's where you're likely to feel the impact and what you can do about it.

Communities were counting on historic levels of funding to prepare for climate change-driven disasters. Now, efforts are on hold.

Amazon is rolling out "Key," a WiFi-connected camera linked to a smart door lock to allow package delivery inside your home. Privacy experts say Key will tell us a lot about our trust in corporations.

Syrian cooking blends the most delicious flavors from the East and West. For the cookbook Our Syria, Itab Azzam and Dina Mousawi met with Syrian women in the Middle East and Europe to cook with them.

Foster families are in short supply on the Navajo Nation. U.S. law requires Native children be placed with Native families, so a small number of homes take in a large number of foster children.

The actors, secretaries and other workers who make up Hollywood's middle class have long relied on the industry-funded retirement home in Woodland Hills, Calif., to care for them in their golden years. But rising medical costs seem set to undo that promise.

A year after historic floods in and near Yellowstone National Park, low-income residents are still displaced. The loss of mobile homes was a big setback.

Jose Pomales has a solid job and has lived in his Boston home for 8 years. He refinanced a couple of years ago and now could be part of what economists predict will be the biggest wave of foreclosures yet.