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The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage soared to 7.2% this week, its highest in a year and a half. Coupled with home prices near record highs, it’s putting the American dream of owning a home further out of reach for millions. “We…
LONDON — King Charles III is facing more criticism from Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer, with Buckingham Palace bracing for days of revelations from his tell-all memoir. The latest advance excerpt from the book accuses the then-Prince Charles of sounding “giddily elated” and “like a…
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana jury convicted a woman of negligent homicide on Thursday in the death of a Telemundo television reporter who had been visiting New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, according to the Jefferson Parish district attorney’s office. Danette Colbert, 49, was…
The U.S. Postal Service head said the agency has stopped work on a system to carry out President Donald Trump’s plan to limit mail voting. The U.S. Postal Service has stopped work on a computer system aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump order to…
The Pentagon is considering a drastic plan to reduce the U.S. military’s presence in Europe. A former detainee at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center said he spent 15 hours in a phone booth-sized cage. Plus, a look at the business of styling tunnel fits for…
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied Friday in a government-organized show of defiance after months of war, pledging their readiness to take up arms in the biggest such demonstration since the United States and Israel attacked in February. Iran’s government has sought to rally the…
MANILA, Philippines — A China Coast Guard vessel rammed a Philippine boat on a resupply mission in the South China Sea on Friday, damaging its railings and deck structures but causing no injuries, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said, in the latest confrontation between the…
MANILA, Philippines — At least one person was killed and four others injured in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Friday, the provincial governor said. The incident follows two shootings since June at schools in the south of the country.…
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Human remains found in the Grand Canyon this week were those of the last remaining person missing after the deadly flash flooding in late August, the victim’s wife said Thursday. The discovery of Timothy Allen Smith brought the death…
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a…