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Tyree Reynolds was released from prison just eight days before allegedly killing 12-year-old Khloe Ishway near a Baltimore youth football game.

Azure Printed Homes, based in Gardena, CA, 3-D prints homes from recycled plastic. Time named it one of the best inventions of 2025.

Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans buys Las Vegas’ iconic Cold War-era Underground House for $4.55M, planning a new subterranean museum.

Even though sales rose in the most recent quarter, the beverage and snack company is under increasing pressure to expand its business in North America, as consumers cut costs and calories.

Nearly 500,000 barrels a day of oil-refining capacity sit in the projected path of Hurricane Isaias, raising the risk that a US fuel market with no supplies to spare will lose critical output.

The National Football League filed an amicus brief arguing prediction markets like Kalshi should face state gambling regulation over game integrity.

The National Football League filed an amicus brief arguing prediction markets like Kalshi should face state gambling regulation over game integrity.

Mortgage rates marched higher for the seventh week in a row, driving the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in nearly three years.

The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed to 7.40% from 7.28% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.30%.

The average rate is now the highest it’s been since November 16, 2023, when it was at 7.44%.

The housing market has been stuck in a rut this year in large part because of rising mortgage rates, which can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting homebuyers’ purchasing power and prompting many to put off buying a home.

Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also rose this week. That average rate increased to 6.73% from 6.60% last week. A year ago, it was at 5.53%.

Mortgage rates have been climbing in the months since the start of the U.S. war with Iran in late February. The recent run-up in rates also reflects heightened bond market volatility as surging oil prices due to the war fuel inflation worries.

Rates on home loans are influenced by inflation, Federal Reserve policy, and bond-market investors’ expectations for the economy, among other factors. They generally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans.

The 10-year Treasury yield has risen to its highest level since 2002 because of worries about high inflation, big government debt loads, and other factors.

The yield was at 5.29% at midday Thursday on the bond market. That’s well above its 3.97% level from before the war with Iran began.

In late February, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage briefly dipped to 5.98%, its lowest level going back to late 2022. The 1.42 percentage point increase in the rate since then translates roughly into an additional monthly cost of $376 for a borrower financing a $400,000 home loan at the current average rate.

Depending on a borrower’s income, credit, and other factors, they may qualify for a rate on a 30-year mortgage that is below or above the current average.

The U.S. housing market has been in a slump since 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes were essentially flat last year, stuck at a 30-year low.

Last month, the National Association of Realtors said that existing home sales fell 2% in August from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.98 million units. That was their slowest annual pace in more than a year.

The sharp rise in mortgage rates has many would-be homebuyers putting their home shopping plans on hold.

Mortgage applications, which include loans to buy a home or refinance an existing mortgage, fell for the fifth week in a row last week as mortgage rates kept climbing, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Higher rates are also keeping many homeowners from refinancing their existing mortgage. Home loan refinance applications fell last week to their lowest level since January 2025 and were less than half last year’s pace, according to the MBA.

—By Alex Veiga, AP business writer

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Commanders offensive coordinator David Blough said Jayden Daniels will have no limitations when the star QB plays Sunday against the Giants.

Fan interference was called in the sixth inning of Wednesday night's ALDS Game 3 at Yankee Stadium, denying the Yankees of a potential game-tying home run before they were swept by the Rays with a 4-3 loss.

Jen Gavito, a senior advisor at the consultancy firm Cohen Group and a former State Department official, said that it is 'unusual' for a president to signal that he will or will launch an attack, as President Trump posted on Truth Social that the US would not strike Iran again until after the Midterm elections. Gavito said that even if the US decides to attack Iran again, military strikes 'can’t be the strategy or the end game in of itself.' (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg's Claire Ballentine and Erin Hudson join Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." The Los Angeles Unified School District has a high fiscal solvency risk level as its years long enrollment decline continues and Florida’s public schools are borrowing to pay their bills at the highest level on record. (Source: Bloomberg)

Chinese-made humanoid robots dance before South Korean lawmakers as a legislator highlights China’s rapid advances in physical AI and calls for greater investment in South Korea’s robotics industry.

Apple's Impersonation Risk Detection in iOS 27 can flag suspicious activity inside apps, but the setting is off by default and must be enabled.

Apple's Impersonation Risk Detection in iOS 27 can flag suspicious activity inside apps, but the setting is off by default and must be enabled.

Apple's Impersonation Risk Detection in iOS 27 can flag suspicious activity inside apps, but the setting is off by default and must be enabled.

Use customer interviews to understand how buyers behave across Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, Amazon and other channels — and build stronger acquisition strategies.

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