(Headline USA) The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the sixth straight week, returning to its highest level since early July.
The rate ticked up to 6.79% from 6.72% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. That’s still down from a year ago, when the...
(Headline USA) A Federal Emergency Management Agency worker has been fired after she directed workers helping hurricane survivors not to go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump, the agency's leader said in a statement Saturday.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to...
(Headline USA) Online consensus predicted that a series of racist text messages sent to black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, were likely another racial hoax similar to the
Smollett's name began trending on X as news of the supposed scandal first broke on Thursday, two days after Republicans swept...
(Headline USA) A pair of far-left activist groups on Saturday petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots following delays in vote counting and notifying voters about problems.
The court case could mean further delays in a state and county that...
(Catrina Barker, The Center Square) Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched Think Big America, a nonprofit focused on expanding access to abortion in states across the country. It’s part of his broader mission of “combating far-right extremism.”
Think Big invested millions of dollars advocating for abortion ballot initiatives in eight states....
(Headline USA) Between finding openings, sending out your resume and interviewing, looking for a job is tough. Now a growing trend of scammers impersonating recruiters is making it even harder.
In the last year, job scams have been on the rise, according to Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource...
(Headline USA) Brian Leija, a 31-year-old small-business owner from Belton, Texas, was not surprised that a growing number of Latino men of his generation voted for Donald Trump for president this year. Leija had voted for the Republican in 2016 and 2020.
Leija's rationale was simple: He said he has...
(Headline USA) Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman--Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, began her two-year prison sentence Thursday for her role in a fraud that cost investors, lenders and customers billions of dollars.
Ellison, 30, reported to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, according to the Federal Bureau...
(Headline USA) Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting, has died. He was 74.
He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter Heather Edwards. The cause was complications from a stroke late last year, she said.
Edwards taped his AOL greeting in...
(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) Federal lands in western North Carolina are set to receive more than $30 million in emergency funding for infrastructure repairs in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
The funding comes as part of $43 million total that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration is...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Joe Biden has extended another national emergency, this time related to threats posed by weapons of mass destruction.
Lately, nearly every week, the president has been extending national emergencies that most Americans didn’t even know existed, including one related to Iran that’s been ongoing since...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Arizona’s presidential and Senate races have been decided, after more than four days of waiting.
President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, according to the liberal New York Times, bringing his total to 312. He led outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris by 6.2 percentage points.
Trump’s...