Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Mortgage rates ticked lower this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point on Wednesday, as it was widely expected to, lowering borrowing costs for the third time since September. The latest cut brings the target ...

As mortgage rates fell sharply ahead of the Federal Reserve’s expected — and highly anticipated — rate cut, mortgage demand surged as homeowners rushed to refinance their home loans. More homeowners ...

Earlier in the spring, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced that, starting in late May 2025, H-1B visa holders and other nonpermanent residents would be banned from taking out new FHA ...

The United Supreme Court has difficulty with new technology. The court ruled in Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Comm’n of Ohio (1915) that motion pictures were unprotected speech because “the ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., accused a top housing official of secretly pulling Democrats’ private mortgage records and weaponizing them to trigger federal criminal probes, according to a lawsuit ...

U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel in the Rayburn House Office Building on September 17, 2025 in ...

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