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Sales of new homes like this one in Eagleville, Pa., are up modestly, while existing home sales have plummeted amid a housing shortage, record high prices and high mortgage rates. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
What the leading presidential candidates have to say about soaring housing costs
Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/NASA hide caption
Swimming lessons can be a powerful tool to prevent drowning. carlofranco/Getty Images/iStockphoto hide caption
Clockwise from left: Brad Mehldau, Maryam Keshavarz, Samantha Irby, Lauren Fleshman, Ke Huy Quan and Christian Cooper. Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images for OGR; Fred Hayes/Getty Images for SAGindie; Lori Morgan Gottschling/Random House; Ryan Warner/Oiselle; A24; Matt Licari/Invision/AP hide caption
General Motors CEO Mary Barra made nearly $29 million in 2022. This amount is 362 times the median GM employee's paycheck, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as workers everywhere are demanding higher wages
Lasse Wellander performs on stage with ABBA at the Wembley Arena in London in 1979. Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty Images/Gus Stewart hide caption
Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron visit the garden of the residence of the Governor of Guangdong on April 7. JACQUES WITT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Macron comments raise questions about Europe's allegiance to the U.S. and Taiwan
Sean Saifa Wall Harold Daniels/Harold Daniels Studio hide caption
Where gender-affirming care for youth is banned, intersex surgery may be allowed
Boxes of the drug mifepristone a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, AL. Allen G. Breed/AP hide caption
Sen. Amy Klobuchar calls Texas judge's abortion pill ruling 'shocking'
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo on October 7, 2022. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Why it's unlikely ethics rules on Supreme Court gift disclosures will work
A nurse prepares to inject residential care home staff with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Liam McBurney/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
'Kind Of A Chess Game': For States, Distributing COVID-19 Vaccine Poses Myriad Hurdles
A woman stands in front of a line of police officers near the White House during a protest in Washington, D.C. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption
Robert Hyde posing with President Trump. Hyde has emerged as the latest figure in the impeachment saga following the release of messages in which he discusses surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. hydeforcongress.com hide caption