By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell for the fifth week in a row, more good news for prospective homebuyers grappling with an increasingly unaffordable housing market. The latest decline brought the average rate on a 30-year mortgage down to 7.22% from 7.29% last week,
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — In the midst of vacation planning, Natalie Williams was feeling overwhelmed. Life was hectic, and booking a trip was at the bottom of a to-do list already flooded with other various tasks and obligations. She wasn’t even sure if she still wanted to go. Still, her friends asked: When
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press North Carolina State quarterback MJ Morris said he plans to enter the transfer portal, an announcement coming less than a month after he opted out for the rest of the season to preserve his redshirt option despite being the starter. Morris issued a statement to On3Sports a nd posted the statement
Continue ReadingBy Scott Miller Click here for updates on this story LONDON, Ontario (CTV Network) — Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick were looking for invasive mussels when they found something nobody has laid on eyes for 128 years. “Sort of out of the mists of time this ship appears,” said Zach Melnick, who was operating the
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CNN By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was
Continue Reading By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was in
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha evaluado el estado de la cepa de coronavirus BA.2.86 y sus ramificaciones, nombrándola “variante de interés”, aunque la organización dice que el riesgo actual de esta familia de virus parece ser bajo. Anteriormente, la organización había estado siguiendo este linaje como una “variante bajo
Continue ReadingBy CHARLIE DE MAR Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Police were questioning a person of interest Wednesday after a 9-month-old girl was shot and critically wounded in the Washington Park neighborhood the night before. But as CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported, there was a lot that remained unknown Wednesday
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The Commerce Department on Thursday delivered an early present to the Federal Reserve: The central bank’s favorite inflation gauge fell to its lowest level since the spring of 2021, and consumers lifted their foot off the gas pedal. The core Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, which excludes volatile
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By JACQUELINE QUYNH Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A Sunny Isles Beach mother accused of abusing her three-year-old son was arraigned during a hearing on Thursday. Yulia Storozhuk is facing two counts of felony child abuse. Storozhuk did not appear in court, her lawyer appeared before the judge on
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Two Nevada state troopers died Thursday after they were struck by a vehicle while helping another driver, authorities said. Las Vegas police, who will be investigating the collision, planned to hold a media briefing at their headquarters later Thursday. According to police, the two Nevada Highway Patrol officers were “conducting a
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos, whose political book “Z” inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, died Thursday in Athens at age 89. The best-known among the scores of books he wrote, “Z” was based on the murder of a left-leaning Greek member of Parliament by right-wingers in 1963. Published
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Consillio Click here for updates on this story OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) — It’s holiday shopping season and that means more shoplifters. But at least one store in Ala Moana Center is seeing fewer thieves than it did a year ago. “A year ago and a little bit before that the cases were quite
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In his closing arguments for remaining a member of the House, a defiant Rep. George Santos is depicting himself as a victim of a smear campaign by some of his colleagues. He also is making clear that he will not resign before Friday’s vote on whether he
Continue ReadingCNN By MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt, Kaitlan Collins and Becky Anderson, CNN Washington and Dubai (CNN) — A deal to extend a truce between Israel and Hamas into Thursday went down to the wire after Hamas declined for hours to produce a list of hostages that had 10 women and children on it – a
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A man on death row who claimed self-defense in the shooting deaths of two men in Oklahoma City in 2001 has been denied clemency. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decision on Thursday came shortly after 59-year-old Phillip Dean Hancock was set to be executed.
Continue ReadingBy PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas (KCTV) — A Shawnee Mission East High School student caught on video using racial language and assaulting a Black female student on Nov. 15 has been charged with a felony. The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office confirmed the 15-year-old male student
Continue ReadingBy Jalen Beckford and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Education added Harvard University and the New York City Department of Education to a growing list of universities and school districts that are being investigated over alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia following the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel. The announcement
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Global delegates at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai formally adopted a damage fund that was decades in the making, and several countries pledged millions of dollars to it to help nations hit hardest by the climate crisis – an early success on the
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Plenty of little girls like to play dress up, but for one child it has led to an invitation from Oprah Winfrey. Rosie McKee, whose Instagram account go_rosie_grow is managed by her mom Kenya Faye, recently acted out a famous dinner table scene from the 1985 film, “The
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