US budget: Spending deal reached as shutdown deadline looms

Mortgage rates fell for the eighth consecutive week, giving cash-strapped home buyers some relief as the new year approaches. The average interest rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage clocked in at 6.67% for the week ended Dec. 20, down from 6.95% a week earlier, according to data released Thursday by mortgage giant Freddie Mac….

Thousands of service workers in Las Vegas are preparing to go on strike Friday if they can’t settle new contracts with two of the city’s major hotel and casino operators. The Culinary Workers Union said it reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with Caesars Entertainment early Wednesday after 20 hours of bargaining. But…

“Instead of pressuring its parent company, McDonald’s Corporation, to terminate its shameful franchise agreement in Israel, McDonald’s Malaysia and its Saudi owner are desperately trying to silence voices of peaceful solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle in Malaysia,” the group said.

Updated Jan. 10, 2024 2:01 pm ET The National Football League lost several of its biggest stars to injuries during the just-completed regular season, including the quarterbacks of the New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings and Cincinnati Bengals. But a new NFL star emerged: superfan Taylor Swift. Swift’s attendance at several Kansas City Chiefs games to…

Business & Finance 08 December 2023, 2:27 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported two significant stories in the aerospace sector on Thursday about U.S. plane maker Boeing. Reuters started the day breaking news about Boeing closing in on a Thai Airways plane order and then later in the day filed an exclusive about a two-month…

Sylvia Rook, lead officer for fair trading at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said that based on information provided by Panorama, replacing country-of-origin labels with “Made in the UK” ones in this way was “incorrect” and “could potentially mislead consumers”.