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The effectiveness and cost of the National Guard deployment in D.C.

By Lisa Desjardins, Jackson Hudgins

It has now been one year since President Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital and deployed thousands of members of the National Guard to its streets. Questions continue to mount over the mission’s cost, its legality and…

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Credit card debt surges in U.S. as high interest rates make it harder to pay off

By Paul Solman, Ryan Connelly Holmes

Americans owe more than a trillion dollars in credit card debt, up 60% from just five years ago. Meanwhile, higher interest rates make debt even more difficult to pay off, a downward spiral causing credit card delinquencies to surge. Economics…

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What to know as your driver's license gets a digital upgrade

By Tim McPhillips

Your old plastic driver's license could soon be getting a digital upgrade. Multiplatform producer Tim McPhillips walks us through four things you should know, including some of the benefits and some of the concerns.

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U.S. stocks edge further from their records as oil prices keep swinging

By Stan Choe, Associated Press

U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records Tuesday, while oil prices kept swinging on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again.

U.S. existing homes fall 1.7% in July as record prices, high mortgage rates stifle would be-buyers

By Matt Ott, Associated Press

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed again in July as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a year prove to be an insurmountable hurdle for many prospective homebuyers.

Severe weather pounds Illinois and Indiana, knocking out power as tornado sirens blare

By Laura Bargfeld, Ed White, Associated Press

Severe weather cut power to over half a million people in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana as perilous thunderstorms and extreme wind gusts pummeled the region on Tuesday.

Almost nowhere in California is building enough housing. Here's why

By Ben Christopher, CalMatters

California cities and counties are struggling to meet state housing targets. Despite having state-approved plans, actual construction lags behind.

Taylor Farms recalls several jalapeño products over salmonella concerns

By Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

Guacamole, pico de gallo and taco dip are some of the prepared foods included in the recall. The announcement comes a few weeks after Taylor Farms voluntarily recalled its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to…

Contiguous U.S. broke its record for hottest month ever in July, NOAA says

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Although it was unusually cool in Alaska, hotter-than-normal conditions blanketed the Lower 48, with the most excessive heat in the Mountain West, Southwest, Northern Plains and Southeast.

What we know about the death of Tasia Fortune in Mississippi

By Sophie Bates, Terry Tang, Associated Press

The hanging death of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found outside an abandoned house, has shaken her family and community in Mississippi, where two other people have been found hanging from trees in less than a year.