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Home sales closings dropped in August and remain well below pre-pandemic levels as high prices and interest rates weighed on the market, according to an analysis this week by the Calculated Risk blog.

Home sales are on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance has emerged as President Donald Trump’s lead attack dog on the government shutdown as some Democrats lambaste what they see as a lack of White House leadership.

Vance, a former ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Germany awarded its highest honor to former U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, praising a former Biden administration official whose legacy has been upended by his successor, Pete Hegseth.

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ST. LOUIS — The Boeing Co. said Thursday it would expand its push for replacement workers and boost recruitment efforts as its unionized workforce continued to strike.

Dan Gillian, the aerospace giant's top St. Louis ...Read more

Virginia’s Board of Health took the next step in a regulatory process meant to restrict transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports or using certain facilities designated for women and girls.

On Thursday, ...Read more

British police arrested two people and killed the main suspect after a fatal terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, leading U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to warn about the threat of rising antisemitism.

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A fundraiser for the family of the ex-Marine accused of waging a deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan on Sunday had collected more than $300,000 as of Thursday evening.

The money isn’t to reward Thomas Jacob ...Read more

Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, politicians across the U.S. have advanced efforts to permanently memorialize him, including through coins, statues and official holidays.

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Starting next year, offering money or prizes for voting or registering to vote will be criminalized in California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he signed two election reform bills into law, including one that ...Read more

Minnesota receives more than a billion dollars each year from the federal government in education funding. How much of that is at stake if state leaders do not comply with federal orders to bar transgender athletes from ...Read more

YouTube TV and NBCUniversal announced a new distribution agreement Thursday, averting a blackout that could have interrupted programming routines for millions of customers.

The previous pact expired earlier this week, but...Read more

MIAMI — In another effort to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, civil rights groups say the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis is unlawfully detaining individuals at the facility and have asked a federal judge in Fort Myers ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and the other 114,648 registered voters in a state House district in Palm Beach County may go unrepresented during the 2026 Florida legislative ...Read more

The “Make America Healthy Again” movement and American agriculture have been on a collision course this year, and at the center is a fight over commonly used pesticides.

This May, a MAHA Commission led by Health and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is weighing slashing “thousands” of federal jobs ahead of a meeting with his budget director, Russell Vought, as the White House looks to ratchet up pressure on Democrats to end a ...Read more

A Royal Caribbean ship docked in Miami on Thursday after a norovirus outbreak sickened nearly 100 people aboard, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The outbreak at the Serenade of the Seas, which...Read more

One of the Delta jets involved in a low-speed collision on Wednesday evening at LaGuardia Airport in New York had arrived from Charlotte, North Carolina.

The wing of an Endeavor aircraft leaving for Roanoke, Virginia, hit...Read more

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, currently serving 30 to 60 years in prison on more than 40 child sex abuse-related charges, filed a new appeal last week alleging new evidence of prosecutorial ...Read more

Joshua Rocha has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the July 2022 slaying of North Kansas City police officer Daniel Vasquez.

It took a jury from St. Charles County, Missouri, a little under two hours to deliver ...Read more

If the Democratic-led Michigan Senate is unable to rally enough votes to increase taxes on marijuana — a key piece of a long-term road funding plan taking shape at the Capitol — then state government will shut down, ...Read more