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Today's Mortgage Rates Ease to 6.91%: Aug. 4, 2026 08/03/2026 08:00pm • Today's average interest rate on a 30-year purchase mortgage is 6.91%, which is lower than yesterday's reading of 6.93%, according to Zillow data provided to U.S. News. For refinancing mortgages, today's 30-year rate is 6.985%, and the current 15-year rate is 5.998%. Interest rates on home loans hav A developer is asking neighbors to buy in and own part of a north Minneapolis mall 08/03/2026 05:13pm • A Chicago-based social enterprise company is purchasing the Hawthorn Crossings strip mall in north Minneapolis, promising it will build local wealth and support community development in one of the Twin Cities’ lowest-income and most diverse neighborhoods. Lyneir Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Idaho fast food restaurant shooting leaves 3 dead and 7 injured, city spokesman says 08/03/2026 02:46pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police who responded to the shooting found the body of the suspected gunman in an are Suspect in shooting at Idaho fast-food restaurant died from self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say 08/03/2026 02:41pm • TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The suspect in a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant in Idaho died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Sunday, crediting an off-duty officer and a citizen with firing shots that diverted him. Investigators are confident that the gunman, identified as 24-ye Russia blasts southern Ukrainian city with glide bombs while Ukrainian drones kill 9 08/03/2026 11:17am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian planes dropped eight powerful glide bombs in a span of 90 minutes on residential districts of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and wounding dozens of others, regional chief Ivan Fedorov said Monday. Meanwhile, six people were killed by Uk At creative reuse centers, old art supplies get a new life at a fraction of the cost 08/03/2026 10:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — Charlene Catalano was looking for a ball of green-and-white yarn to crochet this year's winter scarf. Instead of going to a big-box retail store, she found what she needed at Brooklyn Creative Reuse, along with gently used crochet kits, hooks, labels and other bits. It all cost jus Ceuta grapples with aftermath of border surge after most migrants leave the Spanish territory 08/02/2026 10:07pm • CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunda Why immigration remains strong for Trump among Republicans, according to a new AP-NORC poll 08/02/2026 12:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration remains a stronger issue for President Donald Trump than the economy or Iran, according to a new AP-NORC poll, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the span of under a week in July. Trump is not getting a glowi Dry, hot summers are putting Dutch dikes at risk and threatening German river trade 08/02/2026 12:36am • WADDINXVEEN, Netherlands (AP) — Jeroen Wouda and Dirk Boom walk slowly along a Dutch dike, prodding at the bone dry surface with metal rods and scanning the parched grass for patches of green that could give away the location of a leak. In a scene that brings to mind the fictional Dutch boy who he Teen charged as adult after shooting at Wheaton Mall wounds 13-year-old 08/01/2026 04:10pm • A 17-year-old has been charged as an adult after police say he opened fire inside a Wheaton, Maryland, mall Friday evening, wounding a 13-year-old boy near a children's play area and sending shoppers scrambling for safety. Diego Rafael Turcios Avalos, of Silver Spring, was charged with attemp A Delaware lighthouse is about to fall in the ocean. Can anyone move it first? 08/01/2026 11:21am • A nearly century-old lighthouse that sits three-fourths of a mile in the water off the Delaware coast needs a new home, and fast. Advocates for the Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse say if they can’t find a new place to put it, it’s a matter of when and not if it will fall into the ocean. The li Fishing closures are becoming routine as record heat warms rivers in the US West 08/01/2026 08:05am • LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — Trout need cool water to survive, but record heat this summer has driven water temperatures to lethal levels for fish. Wildlife officials are banning fishing during certain hours on rivers and streams across the U.S. West, following an exceptionally dry winter and amid wid Britain's new leader shifts power from Downing Street to Manchester with 'No. 10 North' 08/01/2026 05:22am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain has a new hub of power: a bland modern office block about 165 miles (260 kilometers) from the prime minister's official London office and residence at 10 Downing St. The Manchester low-rise is home to “No. 10 North,” the flagship of new Prime Minister Andy B Quake survivors in southwestern Japan sleep in cars in sweltering heat as death toll rises to 34 08/01/2026 03:32am • YATSUSHIRO, Japan (AP) — Thousands of survivors of a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan spent Friday in crowded shelters or sleeping in cars as they faced shortages of water and fuel and punishing summer temperatures that stoked fears of heat-related illness. The death toll rose to 34, the Photos show the aftermath of a damaging earthquake in southwestern Japan 07/31/2026 10:06pm • KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday. A shopping mall, a factory and multiple homes were heavily damaged, and Self Defense Forces personnel joined rescue workers to look for survivors. ____ This is a photo gall