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fox35orlando.com | Catherine Stoddard
FILE - A for sale sign is displayed outside of a home for sale on August 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) More sellers are offering concessions to homebuyers in 2025, according to a Redfin analysis. This year, home sellers gave concessions to buyers in 44.4% of U.S. home-sale transactions in the first quarter, which is up 39.3% compared to last year and is just shy of the record high set in 2023, which was 45.1%. What are concessions?
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livenowfox.com | Catherine Stoddard
FILE - Photo of a dog and its owner cuddling on a couch. (Credit: Calm and Mars Inc.) Who can deny cuddles from a beloved pet can reduce stress? For pet lovers, not many. A survey conducted by the Calm App and Mars Inc., a pet food company, found that more than half of pet owners said they preferred to spend time with their pets when feeling stressed – not people.
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1 day ago | 
fox35orlando.com | Catherine Stoddard
FILE - Photo of a dog and its owner cuddling on a couch. (Credit: Calm and Mars Inc.) Who can deny cuddles from a beloved pet can reduce stress? For pet lovers, not many. A survey conducted by the Calm App and Mars Inc., a pet food company, found that more than half of pet owners said they preferred to spend time with their pets when feeling stressed – not people.
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2 days ago | 
livenowfox.com | Catherine Stoddard
Pope Leo’s inauguration mass has been set for Sunday, May 18, in St. Peter’s Square. May 18 also marks the fifth Sunday of Easter, according to Vatican News. FILE - Pope Leo XIV attends an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers on May 12, 2025 at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images) What time is Pope Leo’s inaugural Mass? Mass is set to begin at 10 a.m. local time, which is 4 a.m. ET.
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2 days ago | 
fox9.com | Catherine Stoddard
Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff. "Never again war!" Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. Pope Leo’s inauguration mass has been set for Sunday, May 18, in St. Peter’s Square.
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2 days ago | 
livenowfox.com | Catherine Stoddard
FILE - The start/stop button of the 2011 BMW 1M coupe is seen near Monticello, New York. (Mark Elias/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposed rolling back the federal incentives that helped push the automatic start-stop feature in millions of U.S. cars. "Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy.
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4 days ago | 
livenowfox.com | Catherine Stoddard
Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday noon blessing since being elected as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history. The Chicago-born 69-year-old Augustinian missionary has a busy few days ahead of him as he takes on his official pope duties. Sunday noon blessing American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost presides over his first Holy Mass as Pope Leo XIV with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel at the conclusion of the Conclave on May 09, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican.
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4 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Catherine Stoddard
The BriefIn his first Sunday blessing, Pope Leo XIV called for peace in Ukraine and Gaza and repeated the call for "never again war."Unlike his predecessors, Leo went to the very center of the square and the heart of the church to deliver the blessing. Pope Leo XIV gave his first Sunday noon blessing since being elected as pope and called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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6 days ago | 
fox5atlanta.com | Catherine Stoddard
Divers in Australia spotted a rare all-white stingray and caught it on video. A rare, white stingaree While swimming off the Rye coast in Victoria, Australia, Jules Casey captured footage of the stingray gliding through the water. Casey told Storyful she suspected the ray to have albinism or leucism, resulting in the white coloring. "I could not believe how gorgeous she was. She was so chilled out and I swam with her for about 15 minutes, admiring her uniqueness," said Casey.
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6 days ago | 
livenowfox.com | Catherine Stoddard
Divers in Australia spotted a rare all-white stingray and caught it on video. A rare, white stingaree While swimming off the Rye coast in Victoria, Australia, Jules Casey captured footage of the stingray gliding through the water. Casey told Storyful she suspected the ray to have albinism or leucism, resulting in the white coloring. "I could not believe how gorgeous she was. She was so chilled out and I swam with her for about 15 minutes, admiring her uniqueness," said Casey.
