Mortgage rates fall below 6% for the first time since 2022

Homebuyers are welcoming something they haven’t seen since 2022: mortgage rates below 6%. The reduction could offer home hunters some financial breathing room as the spring home-buying season gets started. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate fell to 5.98% from 6.01% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged … Read more

Veteran airline stowaway strikes again, this time on a Newark-to-Milan flight

A repeat stowaway offender was caught aboard a flight from Newark to Milan on Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter said, more than a year after she pulled a similar stunt on a New York-to-Paris jet. Svetlana Dali was taken into custody in Milan after allegedly sneaking on to United Flight 19 at Newark Liberty … Read more

Trump admin says VA benefits claims backlog below 100K for first time in 6 years: ‘Record levels of service’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that the backlog of VA disability compensation and pension benefit claims is “consistently” under 100,000 for the first time since 2020. The last time the backlog was this low was in May 2020, during President Donald Trump’s first term in the … Read more

Al Green ejected from Trump primetime address again — this time with protest sign

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, was ejected from President Donald Trump’s primetime address to a joint session of Congress for a second year in a row. Fox News Digital spotted Green on the Democrats’ traditional side of the House chamber Tuesday evening ahead of the State of the … Read more

Blizzard prompts Boston Globe management to call off printing paper for first time in 153 years

A record-setting snowstorm has prompted managers of The Boston Globe to call off printing their daily newspaper for the first time in its 153-year-old history. Snow and winds prevented staff from safely getting to the Globe printing plant to print Tuesday’s paper, the newspaper said in an article on its website. Parts of Massachusetts’ Bristol … Read more

Boston Globe postpones printing of paper for first time in 153 years, due to blizzard

A record-setting snowstorm has prompted managers of The Boston Globe to postpone the printing of their daily newspaper for the first time in its history. “For more than 153 years, the press workers of The Boston Globe have overcome the elements, technical snafus, and global pandemics to print a daily newspaper,” the paper said in an … Read more

Sen Adam Schiff says he’ll skip the State of the Union for the first time, slamming President Donald Trump

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump is slated to deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, but Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California said he will skip the speech for the first time. In a video posted on Saturday, Schiff accused the president of running afoul of … Read more