By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage slipped this week to its lowest level in 10 months, but remains close to where it’s been in recent weeks. The long-term rate eased to 6.56% … Continued
By GERALD HERBERT and TED ANTHONY, Associated Press The power of place is real. In an increasingly virtual world, the physical spots where momentous things happened remain potent — and able to evoke some of our deepest-cutting moments. That was … Continued
By SOPHIE BATES, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History … Continued
Texas Observer reader, Gall. We live in a state whose top leaders have entirely, vastly, monumentally too much goddamn gall. Just five days after the deadliest Texas flood in 104 years, Governor Greg Abbott announced a special legislative session not … Continued
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JOSHUA GOODMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it … Continued
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13. To proponents, they’re a tool to keep … Continued