Mortgage rates have gradually improved in recent days for both buyers and owners hoping to refinance. Skryagin Igor/garrykosoff/Getty Images Mortgage interest rates in March surged by more than half a percentage point, on average, even with the Federal Reserve electing to keep its rate policy unchanged in the month. But with a series of disappointing …
April 21 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones struck an oil-pumping and dispatch facility in Russia’s Samara region overnight, an official from Ukraine’s SBU security service said on Tuesday. The attack targeted the facility in the village of Prosvet, the official said. The dispatching station is a part of the Soviet-era Druzhba oil pipeline supply chain. The …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, April 21, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Assistance dogs are more active caretakers for their impaired or ill humans than we give them credit for, a new study says. These service dogs not only help people with practical tasks, but actively contribute to their care, researchers recently reported in the journal …
By Jessie Pang and Greg Torode HONG KONG, April 21 (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government is attempting to seize more than HK$127 million ($16.22 million) from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai after the city’s biggest national security case, according to a court document released on Tuesday. The writ issued by the High Court details …
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team emphasized, because they could also have formed on the red planet or crash-landed on meteorites. But …
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT, April 21 (Reuters) – Pope Leo paid respects on Tuesday to his predecessor Francis on the anniversary of his death last year, remembering the first pontiff from the Americas as someone who gave the 1.4-billion-member Church “so much with his words and his witness.” Over his 12-year papacy, Pope Francis “promoted …
Nearly 490 alleged members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several alleged leaders, went on trial collectively in El Salvador on Monday, accused of thousands of murders. El Salvador is conducting mass trials of thousands of suspected gang members, many of whom have spent years in prison without charge or visiting …
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to Pope Francis on Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death, recalling his preaching about God’s mercy and his gestures of solidarity with poor people. “We thank the Lord for the great gift of the life of Francis, to the church and the …
BRUSSELS, April 21 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s funding needs for 2026 are covered, a senior EU official said, with the EU likely to make the first disbursement from its 90 billion euro loan at the end of May or in early June and other donors keeping Kyiv funded until then. Ukraine, which is fighting off a …
By Silvia Ognibene , Emilio Parodi and Crispian Balmer PRATO, Italy, April 21 (Reuters) – China’s formal reply to an Italian request for mutual legal assistance never made it past a Rome mailroom. The documents, relating to the attempted murder of a Chinese businessman in Italy in 2024, arrived at the Justice Ministry in Rome …