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Mortgage interest rates in recent weeks have changed both for buyers and owners looking to refinance. bauhaus1000/Getty Images Monitoring mortgage interest rates on a daily basis for a timely opportunity is an integral part of the homebuying and refinancing processes. Unfortunately for borrowers, what they’ve found in recent weeks has been a bit discouraging. Mortgage …
An American Airlines pilot was forced to “slam on the brakes” to avoid colliding with a truck at Charlotte’s airport on Wednesday, according to Air Traffic Control audio. “They just went right in front of us,” the pilot of American Airlines Flight 1197 can be heard telling a ramp controller in the audio, referring to the …
BAMENDA, Cameroon, April 16 (Reuters) – Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”, in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked him again on social media. Leo, the first U.S. pope, also decried leaders who …
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces struck a vessel Wednesday in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs. No U.S. personnel were harmed, the U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post. The Southern Command described the attack Wednesday as a “lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated …
ABUJA, April 16 (Reuters) – Nigeria faces a high risk of widespread flooding in 2026, with more than 14,000 communities exposed across 33 of the country’s 36 states as well as the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, the hydrological agency said on Thursday. Unveiling its annual flood outlook, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NiHSA) said …
PARIS (AP) — Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the …
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the U.S. military’s highest-ranking officer are holding a news conference on the war with Iran early Thursday. Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have addressed reporters several times since President Trump launched “Operation Epic Fury” in late February. Thursday’s briefing comes as House Democrats …
A new Gallup poll released Thursday shows more young men in the U.S. say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women — the first time young men have surpassed young women on this measure of religiosity going back 25 years. Gallup’s latest data shows that 42% of men in the U.S. …
The bill expected for a vote Thursday would require the Trump administration to extend for three years Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, which would allow hundreds of thousands of qualifying immigrants to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation. House Democrats forced the bill forward Wednesday, joined by a small number of Republicans, over …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s design for the Triumphal Arch he wants built at an entrance to the U.S. capital comes up for a review and possible vote Thursday by a key federal agency, one of several projects he is pursuing alongside a White House ballroom to leave his lasting footprint on Washington. Trump …