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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Homeowners who missed out on ultra-low interest rates earlier this year may have another chance. The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 2.88%, according to Freddie Mac, the lowest level since mid-February and the third consecutive weekly drop. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 2.22%. The

By Hannah Gard and Judson Jones, CNN Large wildfires burning across the US will blanket the country in smoke from California to New York. Across the US, 68 large wildfires are currently burning over one million acres according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), mostly in the West where the widespread worsening drought conditions

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Housing has become so expensive in the United States that the typical minimum wage worker cannot afford rent, according to a new report. There is no state, county or city in the country where a full-time, minimum-wage worker working 40 hours a week can afford a two-bedroom rental, a report

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Over 15 million people are under a heat advisory across portions of New York and New Jersey on Thursday and Friday, when temperatures are expected reach several degrees above normal. “Heat index values up to 99 today and heat index values up to 103 expected Friday,” the National Weather Service

By Patrick Oppmann and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Cuba announced on Wednesday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on travelers bringing food, medicines and hygiene products into the country in an apparent acknowledgment of demands from anti-government demonstrators. Thousands took to the streets across the island nation last weekend to protest chronic shortages of basic goods, curbs

By Aya Elamroussi and Joe Sutton, CNN The Oregon National Guard was deployed Wednesday to help fight the massive Bootleg Fire — the country’s largest wildfire — which has already charred more than 220,000 acres. The fire, which has scorched 227,234 acres in the Fremont-Winema National Forest in the state’s southwestern area, began July 6

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the climate crisis, according to a new study. The research, published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, says the Amazon’s vital

By Matt Rivers, Caitlin Hu and Jessie Yeung, CNN The head of security at Haiti’s presidential residence has been placed in police custody, according to a close associate, as authorities continue to investigate the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Dimitri Herard, who is the head of the General Security Unit of the National Palace,

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN After 26 Colombians were accused of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moise, a retired special forces soldier in Colombia has told CNN that they were actually hired to provide the leader security, and that he himself was approached for the job by a US-based company. Matias Gutierrez, 45, told CNN he was

Opinion by Senator Sherrod Brown and Peter Edelman for CNN Business Perspectives If you have kids, check your bank account on Thursday. There’s a pretty good chance you’ll see $250 or $300 in your account with the letters “CTC” in the line item. That’s because for the first time ever, we are recognizing raising kids

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business For most small business owners and sole proprietors, the economic fallout from the pandemic was hellish. CNN Business profiled a number of them over the past year and a half, and checked back with a few to see how they are faring today. He’s cautiously optimistic, despite a debt hangover

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Larry Register, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will be transferred to a hospital in Sao Paulo for additional tests to determine whether he needs emergency surgery, according to Brazil’s Special Secretariat for Social Communication. According to sources at the presidential palace, Bolsonaro felt abdominal pain at night, and he was admitted

Alexandra Meeks, CNN California officials are warning nearly all juvenile chinook salmon in the Sacramento River could die due to abnormally hot underwater conditions as heat waves continue to bake the West. There could be a “near-complete loss” of the young endangered species of salmon because temperatures above 100 degrees for extended periods of time

By Angela Fritz, CNN There are places within cities where summertime heat can soar, and giant swings in temperature are observed over a matter of blocks. Neighborhoods with little tree cover, few grassy areas and a lot of concrete can be as much as 15 to 20 degrees hotter than the surrounding areas. During heat