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LOS ANGELES — U.S. home loan applications are the lowest in decades as evidence mount that rising mortgage rates and home prices are shutting out many aspiring homeowners. An index that tracks mortgage application volume shows applications for loans to…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Public school teacher Ángel Muñiz grabbed a thermometer and thrust it into the camera as someone recorded him inside his classroom this week. “It is about 99 degrees (37 C),” he said in a video…
Apple has lost around $200 billion in market capitalization over several days as tensions between the U.S. and China rise, with several media outlets reporting this week that the iPhone maker is being singled out by Beijing. Apple shares fell…
TOKYO — Fishermen and residents of Fukushima and five other prefectures along Japan’s northeastern coast filed a lawsuit Friday demanding a halt to the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. In…
It has that new car smell: fresh leather chairs, brand new wood paneling, stonework … all the signs of a full gut renovation. But now the $50 million, one-year project (that included digging 5 feet below the surface of the…
Sept. 1-7, 2023 The first African Climate Summit opened with heads of state and others discussing a global issue that affects the continent the most, even though its countries contribute to it the least. Severe rainstorms lashed parts of Greece,…
