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Record prices and mortgage rates make U. S. homeownership a challenge, with the average buyer age at 56 for the first time. Buying a home used to be considered a rite of passage for many Americans. However, these days, the financial challenges of buying a home are simply too great for more and more individuals—and especially families.

The Louisiana school’s plan to revive a decades-old tradition has sparked outrage and accusations of animal cruelty. On Saturday, when Louisiana State University (LSU) takes on rival University of Alabama in a massive matchup in its home field in Baton Rouge, there will reportedly be a caged, live tiger on the sidelines, reviving a decades-old school tradition.

Canadian police have been preparing for Trump’s return for months. Canadian police and migrant aid groups are bracing for an influx of asylum seekers fleeing President-elect Donald Trump‘s United States at the same time Canada deals with record numbers of refugee claimants and is trying to bring in fewer immigrants.

Intuit’s latest AI assistant, Intuit Assist, promises to speed up workflows in QuickBooks, with invoice generation taking 45% less time. Intuit is joining the AI party, with plans to beef up its core software offerings with AI enhancements, including QuickBooks. And Intuit says those enhancements are going to save users a ton of time.

Several Division I athletes said that the money available to them through NIL deals remains a small consideration compared with earning a degree and competing in the sports they love. Sponsorship deals were far from Jonny Bottorff’s mind when he transferred to Northern Arizona University on a football scholarship. As money-making opportunities for college athletes have boomed since then, the offensive lineman has earned a few hundred dollars through name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, but nothing that has changed his life.

Despite concerns buyers would delay home purchases until after the election, metro Denver’s housing market sizzled in October. That activity bucks a national trend. A Redfin survey shows that 23% of first-time buyers plan to wait until after the election to purchase, citing economic uncertainty, potential rate cuts, and candidate policy impacts. According to the monthly report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, homebuyers closed on 3,443 properties last month, up 2.3% from September and an 8% jump from 3,189 in October 2023.