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CHICAGO – Average fixed mortgage rates continue to hover at their highest levels in more than year, with the 30-year this week hitting 6.15%, Freddie Mac’s (FRE) latest survey showed Thursday. The 30-year rate has increased for seven weeks without pause, in step with gains in U.S. Treasury yields as …

RENO, Nev. – A woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines (search) flight for wearing a T-shirt that bore an expletive and images of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Lorrie Heasley (search) of Woodland, Wash., said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint …

WASHINGTON – Army National Guard (search) units are short of equipment at home partly because they have been told to leave such vital items as armored Humvees in Iraq for replacement troops, congressional investigators say. As of June, Army National Guard units had left overseas more than 64,000 pieces of …