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DC home prices are still rising, but there’s a caveat skewing that headline 08/18/2025 09:48am • Home sales in the D.C. region’s market have slowed this spring and summer, and so have annual price gains. While sales have slowed, prices are still rising, which could indicate buyers are still willing to pay list prices or close to them for homes on the market here. But the metric that measur There's a $1 million prize and big names for 2025 US Open mixed doubles. Why are some people upset? 08/18/2025 09:43am • Grand Slam singles champions such as Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys will be playing for a little extra money — OK, a lot of extra money, by any standard: $1 million to the winning duo — and trying to get their hands on a trophy in the U.S. Open's overhauled mixed dou Television's MSNBC network is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short 08/18/2025 09:10am • NEW YORK (AP) — Television's MSNBC network is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short. FDA's new expert panels are rife with financial conflicts and fringe views 08/18/2025 09:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Food and Drug Administration needs outside guidance, it normally turns to a trusted source: a large roster of expert advisers who are carefully vetted for their independence, credentials and judgment. But increasingly, the agency isn’t calling them. Instead, FDA Commis Are you doing a home renovation, but don’t understand the bids? Let AI take a look 08/18/2025 08:46am • Home renovations are on the rise, with more homeowners choosing to stay put with their low mortgage rate and access to a pile of home equity to spend, but renovations don’t always go as planned. In fact, more often than not, they don’t. Residential real estate company Clever Real Estate said Bolivia heads to a presidential runoff as 2 decades of left-wing dominance ends 08/18/2025 07:33am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's presidential vote headed to an unprecedented runoff after elections Sunday that ended more than two decades of left-wing dominance in the Andean nation but signaled voters' trepidation about a major lurch to the right. A dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew A timeline of territorial shifts in Russia's war on Ukraine 08/18/2025 06:22am • Russia’s troops are continuing their slow war of attrition in eastern and northern Ukraine, even as the conflict enters a pivotal phase with a series of high-level meetings that are part of U.S. President Donald Trump's push for peace. In the three-and-a-half years since Moscow launched its full- Michigan QB Bryce Underwood tops list of freshmen who could make immediate impact 08/18/2025 06:10am • Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood, the nation’s No. 1 recruit in his class, has spent months getting ready in hopes of starting the 14th-ranked Wolverines’ season opener against New Mexico. If follows an outstanding high school career in which Underwood threw for 11,488 yards and 152 touchdo Robertson and Baylor hope to build off 2024 finish that removed dismal feel around Aranda's team 08/18/2025 06:10am • The feeling surrounding coach Dave Aranda and the Baylor Bears was getting downright dismal midway through last season. A six-game winning streak certainly changed the mood, and expectations, especially for quarterback Sawyer Robertson and other players who went through that extended slide. “A lo Google to pay $36M fine for anticompetitive deals with Australia's largest telcos 08/18/2025 02:55am • MELBOURNE, Austalia (AP) — Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones, the U.S. tech giant and Australia’s competit Qantas fined $59M for illegal pandemic layoffs 08/18/2025 12:09am • MELBOURNE (AP) — A judge on Monday fined Qantas Airways 90 million Australian dollars ($59 million) for illegally firing more than 1,800 ground staff at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The penalty is in addition to the AU$120 million ($78 million) in compensation that Australia’s biggest air Putin agrees that US, Europe could offer NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump envoy says 08/17/2025 09:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war, a U.S. official said Sun Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave 08/17/2025 08:23pm • LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain is deploying a further 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have torn through parched woodland during a prolonged spell of scorching weather, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Sunday. The decision to add to the more than 1,400 troops already on wildfire duty came as Hurricane Erin weakens to Category 3 as forecasters warn of storm's rapid growth 08/17/2025 08:17pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, its outer bands lashing the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as forecasters warned of a growing risk of life-threatening surf and rip currents along the U.S. Eastern seaboard during the week from what is expected to bec How to Manage or Prevent Screen Addiction in Children 08/17/2025 08:00pm • As the mom of two sons, ages 4 and 11, I can attest to the challenge of keeping children off screens. With my older one, I was able to hold off until 2 years old, eventually letting him watch slow-paced shows like "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood," "Max and Ruby" and "Tumble Leaf." He didn't know what h