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Turning your home equity into cash can help pay bills and preserve other savings and investments. But reverse mortgages are complicated, and not for everyone. (Brooke VanDevelder/The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED RETIRE REVERSE MORTGAGE BY SUSAN B. GARLAND FOR APRIL 1, 2022. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED —

Reverse mortgages no longer just for homeowners short on cash

April 5, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

A growing number of researchers say these loans could be a good option for people earlier in their retirement who are not needy at all.

FILE – Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket launches carrying passengers Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, brother Mark Bezos, Oliver Daemen and Wally Funk, from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas on July 20, 2021. The performer who breathed life into “Star Trek’s” Captain James T. Kirk is, at age 90, heading toward the stars under dramatically different circumstances than his fictional counterpart when Shatner boards Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin NS-18. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

How to watch William Shatner launch into space on Blue Origin

October 13, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.

“It looks like there’s a great deal of curiosity in this fictional character, Captain Kirk, going into space,” Shatner said in a promotional video posted on Twitter by the company....

Top Federal Reserve officials emphasized on Monday that the labor market is far from completely healed, underlining that the central bank will need to see considerably more progress before it will feel ready to raise interest rates. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Fed officials say the labor market needs more time to heal

September 27, 2021 at 2:44 p.m.

Top Federal Reserve officials emphasized on Monday that the labor market is far from completely healed, underlining that the central bank will need to see considerably more progress before it...

Allegations by Tammy Richards, loanDepot’s former chief operations officer, echo some of the abuses that fueled the mortgage meltdown in 2008, which led to extensive new industry regulations. Richards, who was a midlevel executive at one of the most notorious firms during the crisis, said in her suit that she had been forced out of her job at loanDepot for refusing to break the rules. (File photo Paul Rodriguez, Orange County Register)

OC-based LoanDepot cut corners in echo of 2008 mortgage crisis, suit says

September 23, 2021 at 2:05 p.m.

In its eagerness to grow before an IPO early this year, loanDepot illegally cut corners and processed thousands of loans without required documents, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by...

Workers erect a tent for the wedding of Ariana Papier and Andrew Jenzer in Richmond, Mass., a town in the Berkshires. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times)

The wedding business is booming, adding a short-term jolt to the economy

August 13, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

Millennials who had been delaying home buying, for instance, may now have an opening.

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that Activision Blizzard fostered a “frat boy workplace culture.” Executives sexually harassed women, the agency said, and male employees openly joked about rape and drank alcohol while engaging in “inappropriate behavior” toward women at their cubicles during events known as “cube crawls.” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Activision Blizzard sued by California over toxic, ‘frat boy workplace culture’

July 22, 2021 at 1:29 p.m.

After a two-year investigation, the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that Activision fostered a “ ‘frat boy’ workplace...

The New York office of the architecture firm Perkins+Will. It is redesigning clients’ workplaces — and its own. (New York Times)

Here come hot desks and ZOOM rooms … and holograms?

March 31, 2021 at 10:38 a.m.

Since the pandemic sent workers home last year, a slew of modifications have been made to office buildings to protect against the spread of the coronavirus. Now, as companies prepare...

The first Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Redlands is shown by Jennifer Burroughs RN, BSN in the Stan and Ellen Weisser Education Pavilion at Redlands Community Hospital in Redlands on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Coronavirus: What you can do post-vaccine, and when

December 31, 2020 at 3:45 p.m.

Even when you get your coronavirus vaccine, it won’t mean an immediate return to life as you knew it.

A look at President Trump’s contacts before he announced he tested positive

October 3, 2020 at 10:57 p.m.

Several people who met with the president this week said they have since tested positive. Others have tested negative. Some results are not known.

President Donald Trump listens during a “National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America’s Schools,” event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Supreme Court rules Trump cannot block release of financial records

July 9, 2020 at 8:27 a.m.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a prosecutor’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation that includes hush-money payments to women who claim they...

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