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Planet Home Lending announced the addition of Temporary Buydowns to its product portfolio, effective immediately. PHL will allow 2/1 buydowns at a rate of 2% for the first year and 1% for the second year.
Pastors of churches around Sutherland, Texas described the moments after they were notified there had been a shooting at a church in town. More than 20 people were killed when a gunman opened fire during a service on Sunday.
In this Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans on Nov. 6, kick off four days of work transforming their 429-page proposal to revamp the nation's tax code into legislation they optimistically hope to complete by Thanksgiving.
Jinyoung Lee Englund, the Republican candidate for 45th district Senate seat in Washington, talks with volunteers at her campaign headquarters in Woodinville, Wash. The race has attracted national attention and money because Englund's loss would give Democrats control of the state Senate.
Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam both claim momentum is on their side with one day to go before Election Day in Virginia's high-stakes, closely watched race for governor. The candidates are racing across the state Monday after a weekend spent trying to trying to rally supporters ahead of the Tuesday vote.
Having worked as a manufacturing engineer for forty-five years, and having installed fifteen robotic manufacturing systems, I was impressed by Sheelah Kolhatkar's comprehensive piece on how robotics and artificial intelligence are replacing human workers . The world of manufacturing is undergoing rapid changes, and the number of highly skilled people who are needed to design, program, test, install, and service the robots and the manufacturing systems does not come close to the number of people who have lost their jobs to these technologies.
Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile responded to pushback against her forthcoming book about the Democratic Party, telling her critics to "go to hell."
To enter the Port of New York, vessels have to traverse the Kill Van Kull and pass under the Bayonne Bridge. In order for today's enormous new container ships to fit, the channel had to be made deeper and the bridge's roadway higher.
After a man drove a rented truck down a bike path near the West Side Highway, students in the neighborhood tried to make sense of the attack. After a man drove a rented truck down a bike path along the West Side Highway on Halloween afternoon, murdering eight people and injuring twelve, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at nearby Stuyvesant High School, followed "shelter-in" protocol.
Her painting for this week's cover depicts another loiterer at the Strand Bookstore, a beloved institution in lower Manhattan. "I have tried to do a painting a day since I moved here from Oregon, a year and a half ago.
Duncan Macmillan's play is a brilliant evocation of addiction and what happens to performers when they can't not perform. Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch.
William Casby, one of the last living Americans born into slavery, surrounded by several generations of his family, Algiers, Louisiana, March 24, 1963. "It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere," Baldwin writes in "Nothing Personal."
The children's-book author visits the scale model of New York, which plays a starring role in his novel "Wonderstruck." In the Queens Museum, just past Arthur Ashe Stadium, there's a large, quiet room containing a 9,365-square-foot replica of New York City.
If you believed the national media, the week of the annual Republican Party fund-raising dinner, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in late August, was one of the worst of Donald Trump's Presidency. The President had just responded to the unrest in Charlottesville with statements that appeared sympathetic to neo-Nazi demonstrators, and even some members of his own party were denouncing him.
Mark Morris, as a teen-ager, in the seventies, did his longest and most serious dance training as a member of a Balkan folk-dance troupe, the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble, a semi-pro group of Seattle hippies and music geeks who got together on weekends, went to the woods, drank slivovitz, and danced till they dropped. When you see the sheer danciness of his work-the twirling, the leaping, the falling, the floor-smacking-Koleda, in large measure, is what you're seeing.
On Halloween, the former prosecutor dressed up as a yellow No. 2 pencil and told people to write in his name instead of voting for Cyrus Vance, Jr. Last Tuesday night, at a Democratic Socialists of America Halloween Party, at Hotel Chantelle, on Ludlow Street, Marc Fliedner was dressed as a yellow No.
Some eighty per cent of the deaths occurred in Ukraine, and Applebaum draws on new archival research to show that food scarcity was not simply a tragic consequence of misguided state planning but, rather, a state-orchestrated program "specifically targeted at Ukraine and Ukrainians." The Soviet leadership, driven by "paranoia about the counter-revolutionary potential of Ukraine," ordered the confiscation of food from homes and imposed severe restrictions on travel and trade, while also carrying out a purge of scholars, writers, artists, and others.
Late one spring night in 1984, the doorbell rang at the home of Norman and Mary Jane Stout. The Stouts, married thirty years, with three grown kids, lived in Guernsey County, Ohio, about a hundred yards off Interstate 70. Norman was a heavy-equipment operator; Mary Jane, who once worked as an office manager, was a collector of Holly Hobbie plates and figurines.