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The President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde at the 2025 European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking on June 30, 2025 in Sintra, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images The European Central Bank on Thursday kept interest rates steady amid major economic uncertainty, as the European Union scrambles to negotiate a trade agreement with the …

Home Sales Fall as Prices Hit Record High. Mortgage Rates Are Keeping the Market Stuck.  Barron’s June home sales drop as prices hit a record high  CNBC US existing home sales dip to 9-month low on high costs  Yahoo Finance NAR Existing-Home Sales Report Shows 2.7% Decrease in June  National Association of REALTORS® US home sales fade in June as prices soar to record …

Home Sales Fall as Prices Hit Record High. Mortgage Rates Are Keeping the Market Stuck.  Barron’s June home sales drop as prices hit a record high  CNBC US existing home sales dip to 9-month low on high costs  Yahoo Finance NAR Existing-Home Sales Report Shows 2.7% Decrease in June  National Association of REALTORS® US home sales fade in June as prices soar to record …

A Missouri creek has allegedly led to a higher risk of cancer in neighboring residents. Coldwater Creek, a Missouri River tributary north of St. Louis, has been a known radioactive waste site since the 1980s. Researchers have now confirmed that exposure to the creek, which is said to be polluted with nuclear waste from the development of the first atomic …

An estimated 7.2 million Americans over the age of 65 are living with Alzheimer’s disease — that’s one in nine people over 65. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, dementia is a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory, reasoning or other thinking skills. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80% of dementia cases. …

TOPLINE: Urgent care visits frequently result in inappropriate prescribing, with 12.4% leading to antibiotic fills, 9.1% to glucocorticoid fills, and 1.3% to opioid fills. Analysis of over 22.4 million urgent care visits revealed concerning patterns, including 40.8% of acute bronchitis visits resulting in inappropriate glucocorticoid prescriptions. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study analyzing urgent care visits from January 1, 2018, …

The rate of sexually transmitted disease has risen significantly in the past decade. The CDC estimates that 1 in 5 Americans have an STD at any given time.  Chlamydia is the most prevalent STD, with more than 1.6 million new cases in 2023. The rate of sexually transmitted infections has risen significantly in the last decade, with close to 2.5 …

Amid the White House’s unrelenting pressure campaign on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump has not only demanded that the central bank to cut rates but to lower them all the way to 1%. The federal funds rate currently sits at 4.25%-4.50%, meaning a reduction of that magnitude would require a drastic move that goes well beyond the …

New York CNN  —  As part of his campaign to get rid of Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump has blamed the Federal Reserve chair for costing the country “hundreds of billions of dollars” by not slashing interest rates. “You have cost the USA a fortune and continue to do so,” Trump wrote in a handwritten note to Powell that he …

Housing Market Sends Mixed Signals as Inflation and Mortgage Rates Inch Up  Realtor.com Mortgage and refinance interest rates today, July 18, 2025: Mortgage rates are slightly lower than last summer  Yahoo Finance US mortgage rates are once again on the rise  Baton Rouge Business Report Second straight mortgage rate uptick, home prices still too high for most buyers  WKBN.com Mortgage Rates Barely Budge Today …