Mortgage rates held steady this week, keeping the average long-term U.S. home loan rate at its highest level in nearly three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was unchanged from last week at 7.40%, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.27%....
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK Shoppers showed their willingness to spend in September even after a better-than-expected splurge in August. But a big chunk of their purchases last month went toward paying the bills at the gas pump, according to the Commerce Depa...
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer Victor Wembanyama’s ejection in the playoffs might have shifted public opinion a bit for the San Antonio superstar, and that was before the Spurs’ stunning Game 4 collapse in the NBA Finals set the stage for the feel-good story that was the New ...
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The Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas The only two Big 12 meetings between No. 10 Texas Tech and Arizona State have proven, with a strange twist, to be an accurate predictor of who would eventually be the conference champion. Maybe it won’t happen that way again, but the home team ...
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ADEN, Yemen (AP) — At least six explosions struck Thursday near the palace used by Yemen's internationally recognized government in the port city of Aden, witnesses said. An official said at least two people were killed, and Iran-backed Houthi rebels based in northern Yemen quick...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the Pentagon will no longer livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, after the announcement faced bipartisan criticism and Vice President JD Vance said he wouldn’t watch it. Trump sai...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro insisted in court on Thursday that newly unsealed torture allegations against him and his wife were “false accusations.” Maduro and Cilia Flores, both shackled at the ankles, were brought to court to face a rewritten indi...
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Rey Hinojosa Olivas was arrested and charged with a first-degree felony for continuous sexual abuse of a child following an investigation into incidents occurring between 2016 and 2019....
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK Stephanie Joseph was working at a television station when someone started a false rumor claiming she and a married colleague were romantically involved. Joseph, then 20, barely knew the man in question and didn’t hear the gossip unti...
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Celeste Canedo, a board member of Odessa’s Día De Los Muertos committee, addressed the Odessa Rotary Club at its Wednesday, October 14, meeting at Odessa College. The event, which takes place on Saturday, October 24, is free to the public and features a Día DeLos Muertos-themed p...
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By LISA MASCARO and JOEY CAPPELLETTI The Associated Press WASHINGTON Federal authorities are investigating letters with “suspicious substances” that have been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide and are urging recipients to treat the mailings as “potentially h...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11), chairman of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Board of Visitors (BoV), formally sent the Board’s comprehensive, forward-looking semiannual report of recommendations for the Academy to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Th...
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World Food Day celebrates everyday food choices and offers a fresh look at how they shape what we buy, cook, eat and save. Photo credit: Pexels By Kristen Wood Every Oct. 16, World Food Day turns attention to the everyday choices that put food on tables around the world. Last yea...
