Average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticks down to 6.84% this week, a second straight small decline

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell modestly for the second straight week, but home borrowing costs remain elevated.

Sources: Liverpool agrees to $157M Wirtz deal
Liverpool have agreed to sign Bayer Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz in a deal that could rise to a British transfer record fee of £116m, sources have...
U.S.-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds
Spyware from a U.S.-backed Israeli company was used to target the phones of at least three prominent journalists in Europe, two of whom are editors...
Trump officials slam Sen. Alex Padilla’s ‘freak out’ during Noem presser: ‘Complete lunatic’
Padilla, 52, was handcuffed and briefly detained after he interrupted the DHS chief’s briefing by shouting questions about the criminal migrants...
South Carolina Republican Rep. RJ May distributed hundreds of child porn files under username ‘joebidennn69’: feds
The married father of two used “joebidennnn69” and other user names to exchange 220 obscene files containing extremely graphic footage of children...
At least four migrants escape New Jersey ICE detention center: sources
At least four migrant detainees broke out of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark where a riot broke out amongst who...
What we learned in Round 1 and what it means for the rest of the 2025 U.S. Open
Is Brooks Koepka now the favorite? Will Oakmont just keep getting harder? We break down what the first round means for the rest of the U.S. Open.