Follow live updates as Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife plead not guilty at their first court appearance in a New York City court.

Current mortgage rates are up today and lower than they were seven days ago. Rates are lower than they were in early 2025, when the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reached above 7%. But rates are still relatively high as fears around stubborn inflation have kept the Federal Reserve from lowering its benchmark rate until now.

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA TODAY in identifying 50 silos near Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, that were deactivated in the late 2000s and later destroyed. That left USA TODAY with a list of 450 targets for our strike simulations.

As of January 2, 2026, the average mortgage interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 5.99%, while the average rate on a 15-year fixed mortgage is 5.38%, according to Zillow's data. Both averages continue to hold below the 6% mark, a threshold that, not long ago, seemed out of reach given the elevated rate environment of recent years.

Following a prolonged downturn in which memory and storage prices declined after the pandemic, it appears the expanding use cases of AI, particularly agentic inferencing, are driving an even bigger surge in demand for memory and storage, both within data centers and at the edge.

The NBC anchor is on vocal rest after undergoing surgery to remove vocal nodules and a polyp earlier this month. Guthrie gave fans a glimpse into her silent recovery in a series of Tuesday, January 6, Instagram Story posts, two of which featured the dry-erase board Sheinelle Jones gifted her.