Better Mortgage, an online lender and homeownership platform with a free mortgage calculator, used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial census to calculate which counties have seen the greatest increase in housing units over the last 10 years. Here’s what you should know.
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By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN A US Navy aircraft had an “extremely close” encounter with multiple Russian military jets over international waters in the Mediterranean this weekend, according to multiple US officials directly familiar with the US military reports of the incident. The sources would not detail precisely how close the Russian aircraft
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By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former top banker at Goldman Sachs has testified that he and other corrupt executives at the firm built a “house of cards” to try to conceal an audacious scheme to ransack a Malaysian state investment fund. Tim Leissner told a New York City jury on
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One of three teenagers arrested and charged as an adult in the vandalism of a historically Black church in Callaway County pleaded guilty to burglary and vandalism this week.
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Kraft Heinz, the behemoth food company behind Oscar Mayer and Philadelphia cream cheese, may raise its prices. Again. The company told retailers in January that it would raise prices in March on dozens of products, including Oscar Mayer cold cuts, hot dogs, sausages, bacon, Velveeta cheese, Maxwell House coffee, TGIF
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Kraft Heinz, the behemoth food company behind Oscar Mayer and Philadelphia cream cheese, may raise its prices. Again. The company told retailers in January that it would raise prices in March on dozens of products, including Oscar Mayer cold cuts, hot dogs, sausages, bacon, Velveeta cheese, Maxwell House coffee, TGIF
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Canadian rescuers have recovered more bodies from a Spanish fishing vessel that sank in rough seas off Newfoundland, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine. But the search for 12 missing sailors was called off Wednesday afternoon. A Canadian official said high winds and 10-metre seas
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s leaders have announced plans to end most of the country’s coronavirus restrictions by March 20. The decision coincided with moves by neighboring Austria and Switzerland to drop many of their virus curbs sooner. A three-step plan was endorsed Wednesday by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the country’s
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN It was all good in the hood during the Super Bowl halftime show, according to Dr. Dre. The uber producer, who performed along with Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar on Sunday, told TMZ there was no problem with Eminem taking a knee during the show. The
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By Abbas Al Lawati, Nadeen Ebrahim and Eoin McSweeney, CNN Perceived disengagement by the United States in the Middle East has led to a strategic shift in regional priorities of late. Alarms about the withering of America’s security umbrella perhaps rang loudest in Arab capitals after a 2019 attack on the heart of the Saudi
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By Marianne Garvey Verzuz will still be free to watch after backlash over plans to add a paywall to view the live-streaming “battles” between recording artists. The streams are competing performances by pairs of legendary artists in Hip-Hop and R&B. It became popular during the pandemic. Swizz Beatz and Timbaland produce the battles. After Verzuz
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Employers, take note: If your staff has been working from home most or all of the time during the past two years, chances are a majority may want to continue doing so after the threat of Covid-19 fades. Among Americans with jobs that can be done remotely, 59% say they
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN It’s been 34 years since Jamaica made its Winter Olympic debut in bobsled at the 1988 Games in Calgary, an unlikely appearance which was later immortalized in the Disney feature film, “Cool Runnings.” Though the four man team crashed and received a “Did Not Finish” result, the exploits of Dudley ‘Tal’
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By Jack Bantock, CNN There were eight gold medals up for grabs on Wednesday at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Here’s a breakdown of who is taking home gold for their delegations on Day 12 of the Games. Alpine Skiing Men’s slalom: Clement Noel, France Biathlon Women’s 4x6km Relay: Sweden Cross-Country Skiing Women’s team sprint
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court says a woman is entitled to unemployment benefits after her job ended when she moved to New York to work remotely. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Tuesday that Fedra Ekres was incorrectly denied benefits when Franklin Energy Services let her go after she
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Los festivales musicales continúan su auge en Estados Unidos y este martes se anunció uno específico para la comunidad latina, el “Bésame Mucho”. El nombre de ese famoso bolero de Consuelo Velázquez sirve como punto de encuentro para amantes del rock latinoamericano, el pop o la música regional mexicana
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Mercedes’ AMG performance division is most famous for making hand-built gasoline engines, but times are changing and electric motors are the new thing. Mercedes just unveiled its latest AMG model, the Mercedes-AMG EQE, a fully electric high-perfomance mid-size sedan. With two high-output electric motors engineered specifically for AMG — one
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Mercedes’ AMG performance division is most famous for making hand-built gasoline engines, but times are changing and electric motors are the new thing. Mercedes just unveiled its latest AMG model, the Mercedes-AMG EQE, a fully electric high-perfomance mid-size sedan. With two high-output electric motors engineered specifically for AMG — one
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist The West is burning out of control. Warmer temperatures and historically dry conditions are leading to longer and more devastating wildfire seasons than we have ever seen before. And now a new study suggests fires are becoming bigger and stronger at night, the time when firefighters used to be able
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed guard Patrick Beverley to a one-year, $13 million contract extension. Beverley is in his first season with the Timberwolves. He was acquired in a trade last summer with Memphis. That came nine days after he was dealt to the Grizzlies by the Los Angeles Clippers. The 33-year-old
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