The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 10 monthshttps://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/average-rate-30-year-mortgage-drops-lowest-level-124650949
The Grammy winners' new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," drops Oct. 3 — aka Mean Girls Day. Will Ganss has the biggest takeaways from her New Heights podcast interview.https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/taylor-swift-announces-release-date-12th-album-124655454
The pregnant wife of former NBA player Danilo Gallinari is speaking out for the first time after surviving a shark bite off a beach in Puerto Rico.https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/pregnant-wife-former-nba-player-speaks-after-surviving-124655929
The van driver escaped the accident without injuries, police said.https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/driver-survives-after-train-crashes-van-railroad-crossing-124649247
A man waded through floodwater while carrying a baby in Prayagraj, India, amid recent severe weather in the region.https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/man-carries-baby-floodwater-severe-rain-hits-india-124649078
Federal agents are assisting the local police, but a surge in National Guard troops hasn’t hit the streets.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/troops-washington-trump.html
Chief Pamela A. Smith’s order effectively serves as a carve-out to how the department enforces a broader ban that prohibits the local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/dc-police-federal-immigration-enforcement.html
President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the meeting comes with enormous stakes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-stakes.html
Manufacturing in Ireland has long helped many American drug companies pay lower taxes. But that strategy was designed for a world without President Trump’s tariffs.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/health/pharma-tariffs-ireland-taxes.html
In the face of mounting discontent over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump has turned to deflection, denial and downplaying.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/fact-check-trump-epstein.html
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/timeline-trump-epstein.html
Thunder Ranch is one of the best-known shooting schools in American gun culture, offering firearms as a way to change your life when all else fails.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/men-shooting-range-thunder-ranch-guns.html
Officials and volunteers patrolled areas around schools, part of an effort to warn families about potential raids and reassure them that their children were safe at school.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/los-angeles-raids-school-patrols.html
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal is a dig at Zohran Mamdani, his main opponent in the mayor’s race, but it could upend the housing search for middle-income New Yorkers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-zohrans-law.html
The plan would open a swath of Midtown, including the garment district, to residential development.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/nyregion/midtown-manhattan-residential-development.html
Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said on Thursday that a plan to significantly expand a settlement near occupied East Jerusalem had won approval. But a procedural step remained.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/middleeast/israel-smotrich-settlements-palestinian-state.html
Israel says its has allowed more aid into Gaza in recent days, and food prices are dropping, but humanitarian groups warn it is not enough.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/middleeast/israel-aid-gaza-issues.html
The event’s organizers said the producers of the film, which includes footage of atrocities recorded by Hamas fighters during the attack, had failed to obtain the rights to the videos.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/canada/tiff-israel-oct-7-documentary-canceled.html
In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html
The end of “And Just Like That …” means the end of a real estate portfolio that includes a cozy Upper East Side studio and a grand Gramercy townhouse.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/realestate/carrie-bradshaw-apartments-sex-and-the-city.html