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Month: September 2024

Mortgage rates drop to lowest since early February 2023 after Fed’s jumbo interest rate cut

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Mortgage rates continued to decline this week, taking a little more pressure off America’s tight housing market as the Federal Reserve ramps up its efforts to keep the economy on an even keel. The standard, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.09% in the week ended September 19, Freddie Mac said Thursday, down from last week’s 6.20% and

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Petro convoca a manifestación para defender la reforma pensional en Colombia

urielblanco (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, convocó a participar este jueves en una manifestación para “defender la reforma pensional”, según anunció en sus historias de Instagram, en días donde crecen los reclamos para que sea revisada por la Corte Constitucional colombiana. Petro firmó en julio la reforma pensional después de su

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Alaska man charged with making numerous graphic and violent threats towards Supreme Court justices

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — An Alaska man was charged and arrested Wednesday for sending numerous graphic and violent messages through a public Supreme Court communications portal that threatened to injure and kill six justices, according to court filings and the Justice Department. Some of the messages, according to court filings, used the N-word in

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South Dakota court suspends law license of former attorney general after fatal accident

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ordered a six-month suspension of former state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s law license. The ruling Wednesday cites actions he took following a deadly accident with a pedestrian that precipitated his political downfall. The ruling says Ravnsborg violated rules of professional conduct. It’s unclear if Ravnsborg

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Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe

Associated Press The deaths of two women in Georgia have been tied to a state law that bans most abortions after roughly six weeks. The news organization ProPublica reported that both women had taken abortion pills. This may raise questions in some people’s minds about the pills’ safety, but experts, studies and regulators have determined

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Fact check: 12 completely fictional stories Trump has told in the last month

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories. This isn’t run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political candidates of all stripes engage in. Rather, the Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality. Trump’s inflammatory

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News organizations petition Nevada Supreme Court to open up secret Murdoch succession case

By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — A group of news organizations filed an emergency petition Thursday, asking Nevada’s highest court to unseal the ongoing family succession battle playing out in a Reno courtroom that will determine the future of Rupert Murdoch’s vast media empire. Murdoch is seeking to amend the family trust that he established decades ago, giving his four oldest children equal

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