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The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage edged higher this week to just above its 2025 low.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that the ICE officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis was following his training for how to respond when someone turns a vehicle into a weapon.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, is calling on Iranians to chant together on Thursday and Friday against the leadership of the Islamic republic as the two-week demonstrations circulate throughout the country.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday vetoed a bill that could reduce the 27-year prison sentence of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro for the far-right leader's failed 2023 coup attempt.

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world's cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two years. They responded by indicating continuity with Pope Francis' key aims of ...

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday it has pulled out of what had been a joint probe with the FBI into this week's ICE-involved shooting, saying it felt it was being cut out of the investigation.

A consulting firm estimates that U.S. companies hired the most workers in December since 2022, offering the sluggish job market a ray of hope as layoffs fell to their lowest level in 17 months.

The Senate on Thursday narrowly advanced a war powers resolution to block President Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela without congressional approval.

In a two-week period, U.S. forces destroyed over 70 Islamic State targets in Syria, struck extremists in northern Nigeria, and executed a daring raid capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from a heavily guarded compound in Caracas.

The Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday an officer has died in a hospital, weeks after being hit by a speeding driver while helping a stranded motorist on Interstate 695.