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12:00 PM on Thursday, December 18

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage slipped to 6.21% this week, close to its low for the year

11:59 AM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump's administration has imposed sanctions on two more International Criminal Court judges over their role in investigating Israeli officials for possible war crimes

11:44 AM on Thursday, December 18

A Mexican drug cartel member accused of faking his death to avoid capture has been sentenced to more than 11 years in U.S. prison

11:43 AM on Thursday, December 18

Authorities say a plane crashed while landing at a regional airport in North Carolina, erupting in a large fire

11:15 AM on Thursday, December 18

A core question for European Union leaders discussing whether to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine is whether the idea is legally sound

11:13 AM on Thursday, December 18

Finland's government is facing a backlash after its representative for the 2025 Miss Universe pageant, Sarah Dzafce, was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a viral photo

10:07 AM on Thursday, December 18

Thailand has conducted more airstrikes on Cambodia, targeting a warehouse storing rockets

9:53 AM on Thursday, December 18

Brian Walshe is sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife nearly three years ago

9:48 AM on Thursday, December 18

The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces on Sudan's largest displacement camp

8:41 AM on Thursday, December 18

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell by 13,000 last week, remaining in the same historically healthy range of the past few years even as concerns grow about the health of the labor market

8:38 AM on Thursday, December 18

U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month according to data that was delayed and likely distorted by the government shutdown

6:08 AM on Thursday, December 18

Pope Leo XIV has made a significant U.S. appointment by naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York

5:27 AM on Thursday, December 18

Burkina Faso has released 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel detained after an emergency landing

4:16 AM on Thursday, December 18

The European Central Bank is leaving interest rates unchanged for the fourth meeting in a row as the economy in the 20 countries that use the euro increasingly looks strong enough to get by without the stimulus of lower borrowing costs for businesses and consumers

12:04 AM on Thursday, December 18

The past year wasn't all doom and gloom; there was plenty to smile about, too

12:03 AM on Thursday, December 18

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania

7:06 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The U.S. government says the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in a fatal collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk near the nation’s capital

6:47 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Ani Kilambi has joined the Nationals as their new general manager, making the 31-year-old who had been with the Philadelphia Phillies the latest young face to join president of baseball operations Paul Toboni in Washington

6:00 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Missouri’s top prosecutor says China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic

10:00 AM on Thursday, December 11

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