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What Homebuyers Need to Know About Climate Change 06/11/2024 08:00pm • Derechos along the Gulf Coast that close airports and break windows in high-rise buildings. Falling hailstones as large as melons. The worst tornado season in over a decade. Predictions for an unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season between now and the end of November. Heat records being broken in 16 Things to Do When You're Deep in Debt 06/11/2024 08:00pm • Americans are carrying a lot of debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data, total household debt increased by $212 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, making it so that everyone owes a collective $17.5 trillion. In addition, America's credit card balan Survey: Unwilling to Sell, Many Homeowners Remodel Instead 06/11/2024 08:00pm • Today's homeowners have a problem that many aspiring first-time homebuyers would be lucky to have: Their mortgage rates are too low to give up, and their monthly payments are too cheap to trade in. Some homeowners don't want to move and sacrifice their lower housing payments, and others can't afford The Latest | Hamas responds to Gaza cease-fire plan with 'amendments,' and US is evaluating 06/11/2024 06:36pm • Hamas responded Tuesday to the U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying it wants some “amendments” on the deal. The militant group's reply apparently fell short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for but kept negotiations alive over an elusive halt to Gov. Jay Inslee says Washington will make clear that hospitals must provide emergency abortions 06/11/2024 06:11pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during some medic Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico's primaries 06/11/2024 05:32pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s elections commission said Tuesday that it’s reviewing its contract with a U.S. electronic voting company after hundreds of discrepancies were discovered following the island’s heated primaries. The problem stemmed from a software issue that caused m Biden administration seeks to wipe consumer medical debt off most credit reports with proposed rule 06/11/2024 05:03pm • The Biden administration is pushing to prevent medical debt from being considered in most decisions made over whether someone qualifies to rent an apartment, buy a car or take on a mortgage. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday it is planning a rule that would remove medical bills f A New York county with one of the nation's largest police forces is deputizing armed residents 06/11/2024 03:09pm • MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York county with one of the largest police forces in the nation is training dozens of armed residents who could be called up during natural disasters and other major emergencies, sparking worry that the new volunteer unit amounts to an unsanctioned local militia Europe’s far right won ground in the EU elections. Can they unite to wield power? 06/11/2024 02:31pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The next European Parliament will have more hard-right members than ever before, occupying close to a quarter of the 720 seats. But they will have to overcome differences if they want to maximize their influence on the EU policies that roil their constituents: migration, climate ru Netanyahu's top rival left Israel's war Cabinet. How does that affect the prime minister and Gaza? 06/11/2024 01:48pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — The resignation of a senior member of Israel's war Cabinet was a dramatic show of distrust in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his strategy for the eight-month-old war with Hamas. But the departure of Benny Gantz does not immediately appear to threaten Netanyahu, who still co Book Review: 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ tells a tale of modern love and success 06/11/2024 12:33pm • The cover art and title of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” don’t quite convey the wild ride readers who crack open this new fiction from Rufi Thorpe will take. There’s a reason Apple TV optioned it as a series starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning before it was even published. This is a who For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes 06/11/2024 12:24pm • WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher ra Riots erupt in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of water shortages 06/11/2024 12:06pm • TIARET, Algeria (AP) — Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret — a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 located 155 mile Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording 06/11/2024 10:38am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return "to a place of godline World Bank boosts forecast: Strength of US economy will support global growth of 2.6% this year 06/11/2024 09:33am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank upgraded its outlook for the global economy Tuesday, estimating that it will expand 2.6% this year on the strength of sustained growth in the United States. The bank's latest outlook marks an increase from the 2.4% growth for 2024 it had predicted in January. And i