The California Exodus Has Continued. Here's Where Most People Leaving The Golden State Moved To — And Why.

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U. S. homes fell in 2024 to a nearly 30-year low for the second time in as many years as elevated mortgage rates, rising home prices and few properties on the market freeze prospective homebuyers out of the market. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that existing U.

By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID MCHUGH, Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The European Central Bank’s president responded Friday to U. S. President Donald Trump’s accusation of unfair trade treatment by the European Union by calling for negotiations and mutual respect rather than a focus purely on trans-Atlantic trade figures. The comments by Christine Lagarde alluding to a U.

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In a season that has gone from great expectations to high anxiety, the Miami Heat now seemingly have moved on to kernels of hope. If nothing else, at least there are the possibilities presented from last year’s draft. The rise of center Kel’el Ware, the 7-footer taken at No. 15 out of Indiana, by now has been well chronicled, with Thursday night another notable step forward with his 22 points and 10 rebounds in the otherwise dreary 125-96 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum. But Thursday also featured the first NBA start of second-round pick Pelle Larsson, the guard out of Arizona selected at No.

By MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose name became a rallying cry during his White House campaign. If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes.