FAMILY That Musty Smell After a Fall Rain May Be Coming From a Place You Rarely Enter—Here’s Where Homeowners Should Look Before Ignoring It The Garden Hose Is Easy to Remember—It’s the Nozzle, Sprayer and Timer Still Attached Outside That Homeowners Often Forget Before Freezing Weather The Quiet Hum Coming From an Appliance Can Change Before It Fails—An Appliance Repair Technician Explains Which New Sounds Deserve Attention View All Family Topics FRIENDS The Way Your Sons Talk About Women Around Their Friends Matters More Than You Might Think The Friendships That Survive Your 30s and 40s Are Different—Here’s Why They Become So Important How to get over a crush when you literally can’t stop thinking View All Friends Topics FAITH A new nationwide survey finds Americans trust their own small church and its pastor far more than they trust megachurches or celebrity preachers. Latter-day Saints broke ground on a new temple outside Barcelona this month, only the faith’s second house of worship in Spain. A new Pew study finds the share of Latter-day Saints who stay in the faith they were raised in has fallen from 70 percent to 54 percent since 2007. View All Faith Topics FASHION Victoria’s Secret says sales climbed 10 percent last quarter, even as shoppers widely assumed the retailer was still struggling to win customers back. Journeys’ parent company closed 25 more mall stores this summer as shoppers keep shifting toward open-air centers, according to the retailer’s own quarterly filing. What to Wear to Football Games This Fall: A Fashion Girl’s Guide to Looking Stylish Without Trying Too Hard View All Fashion Topics FOOD Nearly 168,000 pounds of pork, beef and goat sold under a fake USDA inspection stamp are being recalled after the fraud was discovered. A popular organic applesauce sold at ShopRite and other Northeast grocery chains has been recalled after testing found a mold toxin above the safety limit. The Simple Trick That Finally Got My Picky Toddler to Eat—But Not Every Parent Agrees With It View All Food Topics FINANCE See More The Education Department says SAVE-plan borrowers who received a switch notice must move to a new repayment plan by September 29 or be automatically shifted to one with higher payments. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, a move that will make credit cards, car loans and mortgages more expensive to carry. I Tried Planning One Month Around What We Already Owned Instead of What We Wanted to Buy—and It Changed More Than the Grocery List View All Finance Topics
