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From Medicaid cuts to an IRA tax trap, here are the real threats to your family’s inheritance and what to do about them.

Existing-home prices just hit a new record high — but there are plenty of newly built homes selling at a discount, as desperate builders cut prices.

Ares Management is exploring the sale of approximately €3bn of limited partner interests in one of its flagship European direct lending funds, in a transaction that would rank among the largest private credit secondaries deals completed to date, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed people familiar with the matter as revealing…

“I’ve just been ignoring their attempts.”

A Canadian woman was arrested and accused of espionage while working as an intern in the operational headquarters of the NATO military alliance, Belgian authorities said Saturday. Belgium’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said it launched an espionage investigation after NATO’s security services tipped off Belgium’s military intelligence. Authorities then detained “a Canadian citizen of Chinese origin” on Friday, a day…

In 2002, Maine became the first state to implement a statewide laptop program to some grade levels. Then-governor Angus King saw the program as a way to put the internet at the fingertips of more children, who would be able to immerse themselves in information.  By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed…