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A "For Sale" sign is displayed in front of a home in Arlington, Virginia, on Aug. 22, 2023. Sales of homes in the United States ticked down in July, according to industry data released on Aug. 22, 2023, as elevated mortgage rates and limited housing supply held buyers back. The housing market in the world's biggest economy has been reeling as interest rates climbed, making...

Student loan payments restart will dent US housing market, survey finds

August 24, 2023 at 12:58 p.m.

The resumption of U.S. student-loan payments in the coming weeks will deal a significant and lasting blow to the housing market, according to a new survey of real estate professionals....

The dryness gripping the American Plains is shrinking the US wheat harvest, limiting the expansion of world supplies and delaying further relief from the worst food inflation in decades.

Stunted wheat crops are turning blue in drought-ravaged Kansas

May 18, 2023 at 2:03 p.m.

It's so dry in Kansas that wheat plants are turning blue. At this time of year, crops are typically a verdant green and reach about knee height. Instead, prolonged drought...

A lone ChargePoint fast charger in a Jack-in-the-Box parking lot off I-5 at the foot at the Grapevine on Sept. 4, 2022.

Why so many electric car chargers in America don’t work

May 18, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.

In a nondescript office park in San Jose, California, ChargePoint Holdings Inc. runs a torture lab of sorts. It's here that the operator of the U.S.'s largest network of electric...

People working in the office spend 25% more time on career development

April 12, 2023 at 1:43 p.m.

Workers in the office spend 25% more time in career-development activities than their remote counterparts, according to new data from a team of economists who have analyzed working from home...

Worried about a gas stove ban? Here are alternatives

January 18, 2023 at 7:09 p.m.

Gas stoves are getting grilled. Speculation rose last week that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission could ban the appliance. The agency's head has since clarified that the agency has...

‘Avatar 2’ gains $56 million in storm-hit second weekend

December 26, 2022 at 4:07 p.m.

Walt Disney Co.'s science fiction epic "Avatar: The Way of Water" battled winter storms in the U.S. and Canada to bring in an estimated $56 million in ticket sales this weekend through Sunday. It...

La senadora estadounidense Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) habla en un mitin de campaña para los demócratas de Nevada en Cheyenne High School el 1 de noviembre de 2022, en North Las Vegas, Nevada.

El voto joven, decisivo en las elecciones de EEUU

November 21, 2022 at 10:54 a.m.

Los jóvenes votantes cumplieron las esperanzas del presidente Joe Biden de que acudieran a las urnas en las elecciones intermedias, ayudando a ganar contiendas clave para el Senado y bloqueando...

Los estadounidenses equivocados compran los vehículos eléctricos

November 17, 2022 at 3:30 p.m.

Keller Strother compró su primer Tesla, un Roadster, en 2011. Todavía lo tiene, aunque en su garaje ahora hay otros dos Teslas y un Porsche 911 antiguo al que recientemente...

El expresidente de EEUU, Barack Obama, apoya al gobernador de Wisconsin, Tony Evers, a la izquierda, y al candidato demócrata al senado de EEUU en Wisconsin, Mandela Barnes, a la derecha, el 29 de octubre de 2022, en Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Los demócratas perderían el Congreso

November 1, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.

Las perspectivas de los demócratas de mantener el Congreso se desvanecen una semana antes de las elecciones, ya que los votantes se centran en la economía más que en el...

Una mujer hace fila para recibir comida en un Chipotle Mexican Grill el 9 de junio de 2021 en Houston, Texas.

El auge pos-covid de los restaurantes llega a su fin

October 25, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.

Después de celebrar el fin de las restricciones del COVID con una cuenta épica en los restaurantes, los comensales están frenando sus salidas. Muchos hogares estadounidenses, especialmente los de ingresos...

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