If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund  —  Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices  —  A bidding war broke out this winter at a new subdivision north of Houston.

Rival Group Makes Fully Financed, Roughly $680 Million Bid for Tribune  —  Tribune likely to deem new bid superior to agreement with Alden, according to sources  —  A Maryland hotel magnate and a Swiss billionaire have made a bid for Tribune Publishing Co. that the newspaper chain is expected …

Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices  —  A group of GOP state legislators in Georgia are seeking removal of Coca-Cola products from their offices after the company's CEO criticized the state's recently passed voting law.  —  The legislators signed onto a letter …

Live updates on Manatee plant potential collapse: What you need to know Sunday  —  Gov. DeSantis, state, local officials addressed the situation at Piney Point.  —  Published Earlier today  —  At a Sunday afternoon press conference, Manatee County officials reported “no news was good news” from the Piney Point reservoir leak.

Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess  —  From the start, Alexi McCammond seemed an unlikely candidate to become a top boss within the storied Vogue empire — at least on paper.  —  Only 27, she had little editing experience and had never managed a staff …

Vaccine Cheat Days Are Adding Up  —  Vaccinated and unvaccinated people are getting more lax with behavior at a time when vigilance really matters.  —  A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors.

Will school be back to normal this fall?  Kind of, sort of, maybe.  —  Parents, students and teachers, exhausted by the false starts, union battles, quarantines and remote learning that have upended this school year, are looking around the bend with an urgent, fretful question: Come fall, will school at last be back to normal?

With stimulus cash and jobs spike, U.S. emerges as main engine for global economic recovery  —  Spending on imports spreads the wealth across Europe and Asia  —  The robust U.S. economic recovery this year is expected to be good news for factory workers, freight handlers and farmers.

Hunter Biden on his memoir “Beautiful Things” and his struggles with substance abuse  —  Hunter Biden was asked by correspondent Tracy Smith, “You've said your dad always saw the good in you through all of this.  Was there ever a time when you thought, Okay, there's no way, he's gonna give up on me, I've done it now?”

Israel, in first comment, says troubled by US position ahead of Iran talks  —  US envoy to Iran Malley says goal is to return to nuclear deal, without calling to strengthen it.  —  Mixed messages from the Biden administration on the Iran nuclear deal days before indirect talks commence …

Capitol Police union warns of potential exodus after latest attack, urges security increases  —  The Capitol Police Union's head pushed Congress on Sunday to ramp up security after a second attack at the complex this year left another officer dead and also warned of a possible thinning of the department's ranks.

True democracy stands on the heels of vote by mail expansion  —  We got a small glimpse at what is possible for the future of voting in the U.S. In 2020, 46 percent of voters voted by mail.  It was a monumental habit change as the pandemic made it unsafe for people to congregate at polling places to cast ballots.

Myanmar's Military Has Killed Over 40 Children Since the Coup.  Here's One Child's Story.  —  Myanmar's security forces have killed more than 40 children since February.  Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu.  She was 10.  —  In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete.

Jordan accuses former crown prince and high-ranking officials of ‘promoting sedition,’ with foreign backing  —  AMMAN, Jordan — The government of Jordan on Sunday accused former crown prince Hamzeh bin Hussein and several of his associates of cooperating with foreign entities to pursue …

‘Battle for the Soul of SoHo’: A Debate on Gentrification, Race and Wealth  —  The Manhattan neighborhood is locked in a contentious battle with city officials over whether, and how, it should change.  —  As a child growing up in SoHo, Akeela Azcuy remembers seeing her father …

Sen. Blunt sees ‘easy win’ if infrastructure plan scaled back  —  Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday the Biden White House could score “an easy win” on infrastructure if it would just reduce its new plan to focus solely on infrastructure.  —  Speaking to host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday …

Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say  —  Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus.  Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer.  —  For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.

The Enduring Terror of Violent Crime Victimhood  —  A family in Oakland just suffered a horrific crime in their home — one similar to but far worse than one I had recently — and deserves much help in recovering.  —  21 hr ago  —  A harrowing story of a violent crime in Oakland was reported …

Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence  —  Over the last year, in an unrelenting series of episodes with clear racial animus, people of Asian descent have been pushed, beaten, kicked, spit on and called slurs.  Homes and businesses have been vandalized.

Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism  —  The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts …

Barrasso slams Biden over kids in ‘captivity,’ says he was told to delete photos of border facilities  —  Senate GOP conference chair spoke to ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ host Maria Bartiromo  —  Sen. Barrasso: Biden administration ‘hiding’ migrant crisis from American public

America's Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable  —  GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY … Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time.

A paralyzed democracy can't protect us  —  In a period of just a few weeks, our nation has been reminded yet again of its vulnerability to mass gun violence — and the shameful paralysis of our political system in the face of such horror.  —  The killing of at least four people …