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More Than 18 Million Have Already Voted, and the Final Week Is About Turnout
More than 18 million Americans had voted early by October 22, and with 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 39 governorships at stake, turnout will decide the m
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Holiday Forecasts Split: Record Online Sales, Smaller Household Budgets
Two holiday forecasts released this month describe the same American consumer from opposite ends. Online holiday spending is projected to reach a record $275.1…
Business
Fed Minutes Show a Hawkish Committee and a Market Betting on a Pause
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, released October 7, showed a committee still focused on inflation even as its next move grows harder…
Business
Pending Home Sales Fall 8.5 Percent as Buyers Choose to Rent
Newly pending home sales fell 8.5 percent from a year earlier in September, according to Zillow’s monthly market report, as mortgage rates ending the…
Business
Mortgage Rates Top 7 Percent and the Housing Freeze Deepens
The average 30-year mortgage rate has climbed back above 7 percent, reaching its highest level in nearly three years and tightening the freeze on…
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Bend Wakes Up to a Quiet Friday After the Silver Rail Elementary Shooting
In Bend, Oregon, Friday began with empty classrooms. The local school district cancelled classes across the city a day after a 16-year-old forced his…
Politics
As SNAP Falls by 5 Million, Schools Across America Are Dropping Free Meals for All
In Austin, Texas, bananas used to appear on the school lunch menu twice. Now they show up once. Ryan Mikolaycik, who feeds 66,000 children…
Business
DeepSeek Raises $15 Billion From Tencent, CATL Days After US Federal Ban
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is raising around 15 billion dollars from investors including Tencent and battery giant CATL, according to Bloomberg reporting, in a
Technology
Bitcoin ETFs Post $176M Buying Day — Their Biggest Since Early October
Bitcoin investors bought the dip on Tuesday — one day before they learned what was coming. US spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $175.6 million…
Sports
Ravens Beat the Cowboys on a 56-Yard Field Goal as Time Expires
Baltimore beat Dallas 34-31 in Week 3 on a 56-yard field goal with one second remaining, a finish assembled in about seven seconds of…
Entertainment
Halloween Spending Heads Toward $13.5 Billion as Shoppers Start Early
Americans are expected to spend about $13.5 billion on Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey, with roughly three in…
Health
The DuPage Breakthrough: What a Vaccinated Measles Case Tells Us
A vaccinated DuPage County resident has tested positive for measles after returning from an international trip, in what health officials call a “rare breakthrough…
Science
A Spacecraft Photographs a Complete Auroral Oval From Above the Pole
You cannot see a complete auroral oval from the ground, it is simply too large, a ring of light encircling a magnetic pole. A…
