Lifestyle and Budget

Long-term US mortgage rates fall

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week, with the benchmark 30-year rate declining for the fourth-straight week to its lowest level in nearly seven months.

Insurer Anthem opens another hole in ACA exchange blanket

One of the nation's biggest health insurers says it will not return to Ohio's public insurance exchanges next year, a decision that could open more holes in the Affordable Care Act's increasingly thin system for helping people buy coverage.

The parents behind spelling bee champs

A sixth-grader from Fresno, California, Ananya Vinay, was officially crowned the winner of the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday after correctly spelling the word, “marocain,” a type of dress fabric.