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Average US long-term mortgage rate eases to 6.36% in first drop after two straight weekly increases 05/14/2026 01:39pm • The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged lower after rising the previous two weeks. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate fell to 6.36% from 6.37% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged 6.81%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgage Los Angeles Sparks to honor Lisa Leslie with a statue outside Crypto.com Arena 05/14/2026 01:38pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Sparks announced Thursday they will honor Hall of Fame player Lisa Leslie with a statue outside of Crypto.com Arena. Leslie became the second player in league history, joining Sue Bird, to be honored with a statue by her franchise. The eight-time All-Star remains Mariners' scuffling star catcher Cal Raleigh placed on 10-day injured list with right oblique strain 05/14/2026 01:29pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� The Seattle Mariners placed catcher Cal Raleigh on the 10-day injured list on Thursday morning with a right oblique strain, the first IL stint of the AL MVP runner-up's career in his sixth major league season. The 29-year-old Raleigh was mired in the longest hitless streak in the ma Kelsey Plum joins Prime's WNBA broadcasts, bringing an active star's voice to the studio 05/14/2026 01:19pm • Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum is joining Amazon Prime Video's WNBA broadcasts as a player contributor, making appearances in studio throughout the season. ���Kelsey���s had a standout career in the WNBA and is a dynamic presence in women���s basketball,��� said Amina Hussein, head of on-air t Senators approve withholding their own pay during government shutdowns 05/14/2026 01:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senators unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to withhold their pay during government shutdowns, an attempt to make federal closures financially painful for lawmakers after a string of record-breaking impasses in the past year. The bipartisan support for the measure comes Muskets like those from 1776 are mostly exempt from today���s gun laws 05/14/2026 01:18pm • HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) ��� With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet (305 meters) per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Now, imagine that it�� Judge blocks Trump administration���s demand for Rhode Island hospital's records of transgender kids 05/14/2026 01:17pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's sweeping demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy's Wednesday ruling is the latest set A $620 property tax debt cost him his house. Ohio���s Supreme Court will decide if the county owes him 05/14/2026 01:17pm • After Angelo Craig failed to pay his $620 property tax bill, Cuyahoga County officials began the legal process of seizing his house. The same was true when Angela Taylor owed $4,655 against her house in Shaker Heights, and Abraham David���s $3,384 debt in Cleveland, court records show. The county US-Best-Sellers-Books-PW 05/14/2026 01:15pm • HARDCOVER FICTION 1. ���Fury Bound" by Sable Sorensen (Requited) 2. ���26 Beauties" by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. ���Yesteryear��� by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. ���The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 5. ���Platform Decay" by Martha Wells (Tor) 6. ���The Things We N What to know about contenders who could replace Keir Starmer as Britain's Labour leader 05/14/2026 01:07pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Keir Starmer���s leadership is on the rocks after his Labour Party suffered heavy defeats in local elections last week. Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Thursday became the first Cabinet member to resign though he didn't immediately launch his widely expected China's Xi warns Trump that differences over Taiwan could lead to conflict 05/14/2026 01:06pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China���s Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that their two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue is not handled properly, an unusually harsh admonition that stood in contrast to the American leader���s praise for his counterpart. The exchange at a highly Greece rejects reports of an exemption from biometric checks for British summer travelers 05/14/2026 12:59pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece says a new biometric screening system at airports for non-European Union citizens is fully operational, rejecting reports of a formal summer exemption for British travelers. But busy airports will be allowed to shut off scanners when needed this summer, officials say. Cuba���s power grid collapses and plunges eastern provinces into a major blackout 05/14/2026 12:57pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Cuba���s national energy grid suffered a major failure early Thursday that severed power to the island���s eastern provinces, authorities said, as residents in the capital Havana faced ongoing blackouts. Cuba's aging power grid has eroded in recent years as it faces a prolonged econ DC Water CEO called to testify on Capitol Hill in investigation of Potomac Interceptor sewage spill 05/14/2026 12:56pm • The head of D.C. Water will testify next week on Capitol Hill about the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill, WTOP has learned. In February, the House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into the spill, which sent more than 240 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River Oklahoma executes a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter 05/14/2026 12:44pm • McALESTER, Okla. (AP) ��� Oklahoma has executed a man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter nearly 20 years ago. Raymond Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. Thursday following a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, pri