Average long-term US mortgage rate holds at 7.4%, remaining at highest level in nearly 3 years
Mortgage rates held steady this week, keeping the average long-term U.S. home loan rate at its highest level in nearly three years.

Mortgage rates held steady this week, keeping the average long-term U.S. home loan rate at its highest level in nearly three years.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inched up last week as layoffs remain historically low and most American workers enjoy job security.

Pope Leo XIV met with a top aide on Thursday and resumed working from the hospital, as doctors reported his lung had recovered well from surgery to remove a cancerous nodule.

Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he felt betrayed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The roof of a private school collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 34 children and a teacher and injuring more than 50 other people in the deadliest building collapse ever in the country, authorities and a hospital official said.

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff faced angry members of the school's faculty Wednesday at a meeting that underscored deep frustration over his administration's handling of a woman's report that she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday urged a New York judge to send two of the nation's most successful luxury real estate brokers and their brother to prison for life for drugging and raping dozens of women over a two-decade stretch, while defense lawyers recommended 15-year terms.

Lawyers for a man wounded by an immigration officer while driving with his young son in New York said in a court filing Wednesday that the agent who shot him never identified himself before he ran up to the car, smashed one of its windows, then fired several shots into the vehicle.

Police are investigating a woman's report that she was sexually assaulted during a fraternity party near the University of Chicago campus, an allegation that comes at a time of heightened awareness of sexual violence on college campuses.

The Milwaukee Brewers hit the second-fewest home runs among MLB's 32 teams during the regular season this year, even as they topped the majors with 103 wins.
