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Average US long-term mortgage rate edges higher but remains near 2025 low 01/08/2026 12:49pm • The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage edged higher this week to just above its 2025 low. The average long-term mortgage rate rose to 6.16%, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. That’s up slightly from 6.15% last week, when the average rate dropped to its lowest level since October 3, 2 Saudi Arabia alleges UAE smuggled wanted Yemen separatist leader out of the country 01/08/2026 12:15pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the United Arab Emirates smuggled a separatist leader in Yemen wanted for treason out of the country and flew him to Abu Dhabi. The UAE had no immediate reaction to the accusation, which further escalates tensions between the neigh Judge disqualifies federal prosecutor from investigating New York's attorney general, says he was 'not lawfully serving' 01/08/2026 11:51am • NEW YORK (AP) — Judge disqualifies federal prosecutor from investigating New York's attorney general, says he was 'not lawfully serving.' DeepSeek's AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft report says 01/08/2026 11:40am • HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese tech startup that rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT, has been gaining ground in many developing nations in a trend that could narrow the gap of artificial intelligence adoption with advanced economies, a new report suggested. In the Thursday report, researchers from Mi US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation 01/08/2026 11:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation. President Donald Trump on Wedne Explore DC's oldest, and allegedly most haunted, home 01/08/2026 11:17am • At the corner of New York Avenue and 18th Street NW, in D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, you’ll find a home where almost everything — from the doors to the windows to the walls — is curved, with secret entrances leading to extra layers of hallways and staircases. 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Midterms are historically tough on the party of the sitting president. With Repub Spanish bishops will allow government to oversee compensation for sexual abuse victims 01/08/2026 10:54am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Catholic bishops agreed Thursday to let the Spanish government’s ombudsman have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted. The agreement, which e Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation order 01/08/2026 10:41am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court mandates they describe as outdated. A federal judge on Monday approved a joint motion from Louisiana and the U.S. Justice Department to dis Protesters in South Africa condemn US intervention in Venezuela, call for Maduro's release 01/08/2026 10:31am • PRETORIA (AP) — Dozens of people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the South African capital Thursday to protest the U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the capture of former president Nicolas Maduro. The protests were led by members of the South African Communist Party, an ally of the African N China and Japan, uneasy neighbors in East Asia, are at odds again 01/08/2026 10:05am • BEIJING (AP) — They’re at it again. China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other’s rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And it’s over the same sticking points that have kept t Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Jan. 9 - Jan. 15 01/08/2026 10:00am • Jan. 13 1962 — Wilt Chamberlain scores an NBA regulation-game record 73 points to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 135-117 triumph over the Chicago Packers. 1971 — Lenny Wilkens of the Seattle Supersonics, at 33, becomes the oldest All-Star MVP as he scores 21 points to give the West a 108-10 Could that dresser become a kitchen cabinet? The art of upcycling old furniture 01/08/2026 09:58am • Maybe it's a scratched-up old sideboard found at a yard sale and turned into a snazzy media console. Or a couple of well-traveled vintage trunks given a new home as bedside tables. Designers and DIYers are breathing new life into old furniture, not just restoring but reimagining and giving hardworki