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Average long-term US mortgage rate drops to 6.19%, lowest level in more than a year

By ALEX VEIGA
Oct 23, 2025 11:16 am - The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in more than a year, extending a recent trend that’s helped give lagging U.S. home sales a boost.
Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayor

By TERRY CHEA and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Oct 23, 2025 10:25 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor.
US home sales accelerated in September to their fastest pace since February as mortgage rates eased

By ALEX VEIGA
Oct 23, 2025 10:23 am - Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes accelerated in September as declining mortgage rates and a pickup in available properties on the market encouraged home shoppers.
Vance criticizes Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, says the move was an ‘insult’

By RENATA BRITO and MATTHEW LEE
Oct 23, 2025 8:27 am - U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Thursday Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying it amounted to an “insult” and went against the Trump administration policies and efforts to ensure that the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds in Gaza.
Heat’s Rozier and Trail Blazers' Billups charged in sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TIM REYNOLDS
Oct 23, 2025 8:21 am - Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said on Thursday.
Millions may lose food stamp benefits if shutdown continues, states warn

By Kelly Kasulis Cho
Oct 22, 2025 7:28 pm - Millions of Americans are at risk of losing food stamp benefits before the end of this month if the government shutdown continues, officials in several states have warned...
EU gives top human rights award to imprisoned journalists

By Susannah George
Oct 22, 2025 7:24 pm - The European Union gave its top human rights award Wednesday to two journalists imprisoned in their native countries of Belarus and Georgia.
As red states target abortion pills, this group aims to boost protections

By Praveena Somasundaram
Oct 22, 2025 7:19 pm - Reproductive rights advocates are working to shore up access to abortion pills nationwide — and to strengthen their defense against efforts to prosecute doctors and pharmacies supplying the medication to states where it is banned.
Immigrant rights group calls for removing pregnant women from detention

By SARA CLINE and VALERIE GONZALEZ
Oct 22, 2025 7:16 pm - Women taken into custody by U.S. immigration agents while pregnant say they received inadequate care in a letter Wednesday that calls on the Trump administration to stop holding expectant mothers in federal detention facilities.
Trump defends East Wing demolition, raises ballroom price to $300 million

By Dan Diamond and Cat Zakrzewski
Oct 22, 2025 6:48 pm - President Donald Trump on Wednesday raised the estimate of his planned White House ballroom, saying that the project would cost $300 million - up from his initial claim of $200 million - and defended the decision to tear down the East Wing amid widespread complaints.

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