Home prices in 7 counties soar by €10k in year as buyers battle over lowest supply on record as housing crisis continues HOUSE prices in western counties increased at twice the rate of the east coast last year as buyers battle over the lowest supply on record, according to a housing index. The absence of new home ... 12/22/2024 - 10:53 pm | View Link
Food Prices Keep Climbing: Why Your Grocery Bill Still Hurts The USDA predicts food prices will rise by an average of 2.5% in 2025. While this rate is historically low, it follows several years of sharp increases, leaving consumers weary. Grocery prices are ... 12/22/2024 - 9:59 pm | View Link
‘People are trapped’: Will high home prices, interest rates continue in 2025? The Reno-Sparks home market has been dealing with high median home prices and mortgage rates since the pandemic. What does 2025 have in store? 12/19/2024 - 11:50 pm | View Link
House prices in UK likely to rise by 2-4% in 2025: Nationwide From April first-time homebuyers in England will pay stamp duty on property costing 300,000 pounds ($379,320.00), rather than 425,000 pounds. Other buyers will have to pay tax from 125,000 pounds. 12/16/2024 - 10:37 pm | View Link
Nationwide predicts ‘volatile’ 2025 start Nationwide predicts a “volatile” start to next year due to impending stamp duty changes, but adds that house prices in 2025 will rise by between 2% and ... 12/15/2024 - 11:40 pm | View Link
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press
Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data.
The most recent numbers from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec.
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KEVIN S. VINEYS, Associated Press
Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet.
It’s now been two and a half years since the U. S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
For years, before the stop-motion animation wizards of England’s Aardman Animations introduced themselves to a mass audience with the feature film “Chicken Run” in 2000, they had been delighting fans with award-winning short films starring the mild-mannered duo of British inventor and cheese lover Wallace and his faithful dog, Gromit.
The pair of unassuming heroes made it to the big screen themselves in 2005’s “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” a well-received spoof of monster movies.
‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ review: Fun but not quite poultry in motion
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By KATIE WORKMAN, Associated Press
Christmas has come and gone. The leftover lamb has been made into a shepherd’s pie, the last slice of pie has been claimed, you know you should be starting a pot of vegetable soup and sipping a glass of cucumber juice.
But there’s that bottle of leftover eggnog in the fridge.
All home and road opponents for the Miami Dolphins in the 2025 season are set with a week to spare in the NFL regular season.
It was already known, on the league rotation, Miami was going to host the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals and travel to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, with the whole AFC East playing the whole AFC North next season.
Also facing the NFC South, the Dolphins play home against the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers while visiting the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons of the NFC South.
Miami, of course, always plays home and home against their three division opponents: the Buffalo Bills, the New York Jets and New England Patriots.
With the Dolphins set to finish second in the division this season, the other three games in 2025 will be at the Indianapolis Colts and home against the Los Angeles Chargers and Washington Commanders.
Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency was a mixed success — “unfinished” was how two biographers described it — but he deserves to be remembered as a light to the world.
What stands out most was his profound decency. In that respect, he was a superior president. In words that may sound naïve today, he had promised “a government as good as the American people.”
He was distinguished by virtues, not vices.
Carter carried out his intentions not just in office, but in how he devoted his 54-year-long post-presidency to humanitarian service.
He was not about money
He had not profited from the presidency while the Georgia peanut farm he had put into a blind trust fell more than $1 million in debt.