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U.S. new home sales at six-year high; supply increases

Sales of new U.S. single-family homes surged in August and hit their highest level in more than six years, offering confirmation that the housing recovery remains on course.

Sep 24, 2014 11:36 AM EDT

Personal Finance

Chicago church gives congregants $500 each to spend for good

Churchgoers grumble that they always get hit with pleas for money. But congregants at a Chicago church this month got a surprise - they each received a check for $500, with instructions to go out and do something good with it.

Life

In Pennsylvania, heroin easier to get than wine, cheaper than beer: report

Young people in rural Pennsylvania can buy heroin more easily than a bottle of wine and getting high with the opiate can be cheaper than buying a six pack of beer, according to an investigative report released on Tuesday.

Ten ways to put your retired iPhone to work

With about 10 million new iPhone 6s ordered in the initial days on the market, a whole lot of old iPhones are destined for the scrap heap.

Drone delivery: DHL 'parcelcopter' flies to German isle

Logistics firm DHL is using a drone to fly parcels to the German island of Juist, in what it says is the first time an unmanned aircraft has been authorized to deliver goods in Europe.

Sep 24, 2014 11:17 AM EDT

Obama critic D'Souza spared prison for violating election law

Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza avoided prison on Tuesday when a U.S. judge sentenced him to serve eight months in a community confinement center after he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance law.

Sep 24, 2014 11:12 AM EDT

Exclusive: Oil company rewrites its history, may aid founder's divorce case

Oil driller Continental Resources Inc has been revising its corporate history in ways that diminish the publicly traded company’s accomplishments under CEO Harold Hamm, part of a legal strategy that might help Hamm avoid the largest divorce award in U.S. history.

Sep 24, 2014 11:07 AM EDT

High-profile Chinese official confesses to graft

The former deputy head of China's top planning agency confessed in court on Wednesday to extensive bribery involving several companies including a Toyota Motor Corp. joint venture, the court said.

Sep 24, 2014 11:03 AM EDT

U.S. hospitals unprepared to handle Ebola waste

U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety experts said.

Sep 24, 2014 10:58 AM EDT

U.S. conducts five more airstrikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State

The United States military on Wednesday confirmed it had launched five more airstrikes targeting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the latest round of attacks on the militant group.

Sep 24, 2014 10:54 AM EDT

Bullard says Fed needs to make rate guidance more data dependent

The U.S. central bank needs to change the way it communicates its view on the future path of interest rates, a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday, joining others inside the Fed who are calling for an overhaul of its policy statement.

Sep 23, 2014 11:54 AM EDT

'Lion King' musical is top-grossing box-office production of all time: Disney

The stage musical of "The Lion King" has generated the highest total box office of any production in any entertainment medium, with worldwide takings of more than $6.2 billion, a spokesman for Walt Disney Co said on Monday.

Sep 23, 2014 11:47 AM EDT

McDowell hints at fourballs break-up with pal McIlroy

Former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell has given a strong hint that his Ryder Cup fourballs partnership with world number one Rory McIlroy is a thing of the past.

Sep 23, 2014 11:43 AM EDT

Ebola cases could reach between 550,000 and 1.4 million by late January: CDC

Between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could be infected with the Ebola virus by January 20, 2015, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Sep 23, 2014 11:38 AM EDT

More Americans than ever have never married: survey

A record 20 percent of adult Americans, or 42 million people, have never married, marking a U.S. demographic and social shift, according to an analysis released on Wednesday.

Sep 23, 2014 11:33 AM EDT

Support for gay marriage dips below 50 percent in Pew study

Support for gay marriage among Americans has dipped slightly below 50 percent, the Pew Research Center found in a survey released on Monday, even as bans on same-sex marriage have been ruled unconstitutional in a number of states this year.

Sep 23, 2014 11:25 AM EDT