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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. single-family homebuilding dropped sharply in December after a string of strong gains, but new construction remains underpinned by a shortage of previously owned houses for sale.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since late 2022, suggesting job growth likely remained solid in January.

LONDON (Reuters) — The International Monetary Fund faces tough choices on how to deal with Pakistan after the February election and how to assess the country's debt situation, a former central bank governor of the South Asian nation said.

By David Shepardson and Valerie Insinna

CNN reported. The top US diplomat had traveled to Davos for the annual World Economic Forum on Monday and was scheduled to fly back to Washington on Wednesday. A Bloomberg report said the aircraft was a Boeing plane.

Apple is prepared to remove the blood-oxygen sensor from its internet-connected watches if a court doesn’t give it more leeway while it pursues a bid to overturn a ruling that has blocked its use of the technology

The Interior Department is updating and expanding an Obama-era plan to promote solar power on public lands in the West

Conservative Supreme Court justices have voiced support for weakening the power of federal regulators, but it's unclear whether a majority would overturn a major 40-year-old decision

By Andrew Goudsward

(Reuters) — CNN's new CEO Mark Thompson plans to combine all newsgathering operations of the news network into one unit that would serve its television, streaming and digital platforms, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung

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By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in December as consumers stepped up purchases of motor vehicles and retailers offered discounts, keeping the economy on solid ground heading into the new year.

Investing.com — U.S. stock futures fell Wednesday, retreating on renewed concerns that Federal Reserve interest rate cuts could still be some time away, while the earnings season continues. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score Updates, 3rd T20: Pitch reportM Chinnaswamy Stadium's pitch is known to favour the batters and is considered to be a paradise due to being flat and ideal for batting. The boundaries are shorter.

Business and conservative interest groups hoping to limit the power of regulators believe they have a winner in the Atlantic herring and the boats that sweep the modest fish into their holds by the millions

India: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Yashasvi Jaiswal Rinku Singh, Mukesh Kumar Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Azmatullah Omarzai India: Rohit Sharma (c), Rohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, S Dubey, JM Sharma (wk), RK Singh, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran (C), Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi The match between India and Afghanistan will be broadcast on the Sports 18 network and will be live-streamed on JioCinema from 7 pm (IST) onwards.Milestone Alert! Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world

A top Federal Reserve official said he's increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households

The Supreme Court has allowed a court order to take effect that could loosen Apple’s grip on its lucrative iPhone app store, and potentially affect billions of dollars in revenue a year

WASHINGTON—A government-controlled mortgage giant has a plan that could help more Americans save around $1,000 on closing a mortgage, the latest attempt to chip away at high costs that officials say discourage home buying. Fannie Mae last month said it would expand the types of mortgages it will purchase that rely on a cheaper alternative to title insurance, which is one of the biggest fixed costs tied to closing a mortgage. The alternative, called an attorney-opinion letter, allows a real-estate attorney to essentially attest that there are no problems with a property’s title.