U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week, edging toward three-year lows amid signals from Federal Reserve officials that they could cut their benchmark interest rate at their meeting next week. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the key 30-year mortgage dipped to 3.75% from 3.81% last week. Those are historically low […]
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Contestants on a recent episode of “Jeopardy!” were apparently stumped by a question about Solange’s latest album, “When I Get Home.” The Grammy-winning singer herself got a kick out of the exchange. Solange, whose full name is Solange Knowles, shared a video clip of an episode of “Jeopardy!” early Thursday morning, where host Alex Trebek
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A church deep in La Dina, San Salvador is holding a service with a difference: many of this men here used to be in a gang. Eben-ezer is a functioning church but also runs a rehabilitation project for men who repent their past gang life. The gang in charge of the area is the notorious
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For the last 21 years, Maurice Legere has been a security officer at the Lotte New York Palace, a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. And for the last decade, in addition to keeping the building safe, Mr. Legere has given a tour of the hotel to loyal fans of the “Gossip Girl” television show, showing them
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The slump at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, appears to have been brief. The company said on Thursday that profits in the most recent quarter had tripled from a year earlier. The strong results, which topped Wall Street expectations, should ease worries — provoked by a disappointing first quarter — that the company was slowing down
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Arsenal fullback Sead Kolasinac fought off two knife-wielding men after he and teammate Mesut Ozil were attacked in north London on Thursday in an apparent robbery attempt. Both players were unharmed. In a video of the incident that has been circulated on social media, Kolasinac can be seen jumping out of a vehicle to confront
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Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Take a look at these two headlines, from The Nation and Breitbart: One could imagine a world where a well-respected government lawyer warning of widespread, ongoing foreign interference in American elections in nationally televised congressional testimony would
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When her show premieres on NBC in September, Canadian comedian Lilly Singh will be the only woman to host a current late-night show on one of the four major broadcast TV networks — and among only a handful of women, people of color and LGBTQ people who have hosted a late-night show. Her upcoming show,
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Berlin Air-conditioning: Most cafes, bars, restaurants and apartments go without air conditioning, to find a satisfactorily cooled establishment you need to go out of your way. Berlin’s Museum Island, however, affords a cluster of five air-conditioned sanctums. One 18 euro ticket (about $20) gets you into all five, so you could spend a cool day
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A space capsule carrying a 3D printer to make human tissue and about 5,000 pounds of other experiments and supplies is on its way to the International Space Station after a thunderous SpaceX launch. The private company’s Falcon 9 rocket dodged threatening clouds in its Thursday evening lift-off sending a Dragon capsule on its third
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