• Yahoo Finance

    Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink as Nvidia, Tesla lead Big Tech slide

    Wall Street looked to be slogging to the finish of a largely triumphant year.

  • The Canadian Press

    Middle East latest: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza

    Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcibly removing staff and patients on Friday, Health Ministry officials said. The Israeli military said the hospital was being used by Hamas fighters as a base, although it did not provide evidence.

  • Associated Press

    US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

    The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own. The 2023 increase also was driven by people experiencing homelessness for the first time.