The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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More than two-thirds of people have COVID-19 antibodies, WHO says: More than twothirds of the world’s population probably have significant levels of COVID-19 antibodies, meaning they have either been infected or were vaccinated, the World Health Organization said.
Home listings: Home listings increased for the first time since June 2019, according to Realtor. com data, suggesting the U.S. housing supply hit a turning point last month. The number of active listings rose 8% year-over-year in May, probably driven by new sellers and a slowdown in wouldbe buyers deterred by high prices, Realtor.com said in a report Thursday. The largest increases in new listings were in the West and the South, in cities including Austin, Texas, and Phoenix.
Latvia presses U.S. Treasury to help lift scrutiny over key bank: Latvia is making a push to convince U.S. regulators to back off a now-defunct bank as the Baltic nation seeks to turn the page on a scandal that involved accusations of money laundering and illicit payments throughout the former Soviet Union. Finance Minister Janis Reirs, who made a personal appeal to U.S. Treasury officials during the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington in April, said it was time for American officials to lift a proposed ban against ABLV Bank, once the nation’s No. 3 lender.
Avenatti gets 4 years in prison: Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for stealing book proceeds from Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who catapulted him to fame as he represented her in courtrooms and cable news programs during her legal battles with then-president Donald Trump.
Inmate fatally shoots guard, kills self at Ohio hospital: A county jail inmate receiving treatment at an Ohio hospital shot and killed a security guard, pointed the weapon at others and then killed himself in a parking lot, authorities said. The shooting Wednesday at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton happened before a gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people and himself at a medical building on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma.