(AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates continued to rise this week. The rate on the benchmark 30-year loan breached 3.5%.
(AP) – A state lawmaker from Oklahoma City has announced his resignation for what he calls inappropriate actions on New Year's Eve.
(AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months as the fastspreading omicron continued to disrupt the job market.
(AP) – Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.
(AP) — Two Supreme Court justices say a media report that they were at odds over the wearing of masks in court during the recent surge in coronavirus cases is false.
(AP) — A new study in two states that compares coronavirus protection from prior infection and vaccination concludes getting the shots is still the safest way to prevent COVID-19.
(AP) –A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives, his wife said.
(AP) — BNSF railroad wants a federal judge to prevent two of its unions from going on strike next month over a new attendance policy that would penalize employees for missing work.

