U.S. home builders started construction on homes at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.56 million in September, representing a 1.6% decrease from the previous month, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Compared with September 2020, housing starts were up 7.4%. The pace of permitting for new housing units also dropped in September. Permitting for new homes occurred at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.59 million, down 7.7% from August, in line with the rate of permitting from a year ago. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected housing starts to occur at a pace of 1.61 million and building permits to come in at a pace of 1.67 million. The drop in permits was driven mainly by a decrease in multifamily housing units, though fewer single-family homes were permitted as well. New construction on multifamily buildings also decreased in September, though single-family starts remained flat.

Portland’s police chief reacted Monday to this past weekend’s record-breaking gun violence, again stressing the need for his department to recruit officers for its newly resurrected gun violence unit, which over the summer saw little interest from cops a year after the defund police movement.

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar expressed no contrition over calling Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. an "ass" for grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci about the U.S. sending money to the Wuhan lab where the coronavirus pandemic allegedly originated.

A TikTok star with nearly a million online followers pleaded not guilty on Monday to shooting and killing his newly estranged wife and a man she was with last week at a San Diego high-rise.

Heathrow experienced its first full quarter of passenger growth since 2019 in the three months to September, underscoring strong pent-up demand for travel.

Manchester City had a relatively quiet off-season in the transfer market. City landed Jack Grealish from Aston Villa in a big-money move but failed in their efforts to sign Tottenham star Harry Kane following Sergio Aguero's exit. But the Premier League champions could be more active in the January transfer window.   TOP STORY – ...]

European states risked wasting the €750bn in their post-pandemic recovery fund, Ireland's member of the EU's Court of Auditors, a financial watchdog, has warned. "Where money is being put out quicker, normally you would say the risk of fraud is inherently higher," Tony Murphy said Monday. "The other risk is that we would get projects which are not the best quality," he told the Irish Times newspaper.

Frederik Andersen made 24 saves against his former team and the unbeaten Carolina Hurricanes matched the best five-game start in franchise history by defeating the struggling Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Monday night.