If you have $15,000 in a safe or a traditional savings account, you may be looking for a more effective way to grow your savings dollars. After all, traditional savings accounts currently only offer 0.45% average annual returns and your safe doesn’t produce any return. But, a certificate of deposit (CD) may help you passively grow your savings dollars. In …
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Student loan borrowers with significant amounts of debt received some welcome news this week after the White House revealed the approval of $7.7 billion in student loan forgiveness. The latest round of forgiveness will extend to 160,500 additional borrowers. In total, the Biden administration will now forgive $167 billion in student loans for 4.75 million people. Those who qualify for …
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Are you dealing with high interest debt that only seems to grow with time? Are you looking for ways to get out of it? If so, you’re not alone. In fact, recent statistics from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show that about one in five credit cards is maxed out and nearly 9% of Americans who owe money …
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The bodies of three hostages killed on October 7 have been recovered from Gaza, according to Israel’s army. In astatement published on social media platform X, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari revealed that the bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez Radoux had been recovered and their families notified. They are believed to have been killed on October 7 …
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The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and to take measures to ensure U.N. investigators have unimpeded access to Gaza to investigate allegations of genocide. In a ruling read out on Friday, the court also called for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas. …
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One day after former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she would vote for former President Donald Trump in November, Trump addressed Haley’s remarks Thursday after a rally in the Bronx — his first major campaign event in New York City since 2016. “I think she’s going to be on our team because we have a lot of the same …
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Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWinesaid Thursday that he is calling a rare special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring that President Joe Biden is on the state’s 2024 ballot. The special session was called for Tuesday. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, on the …
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Two years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the Biden campaign released a new digital ad that hammers former President Donald Trump on gun control. “We honor those we lost in Uvalde,” the ad says in text that appears over a black screen. As “Ave Maria” plays, the text continues, and an altar memorializing the …
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Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution. The request to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon follows a false claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents …
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George Floyd’s family is still grieving, four years after he was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. “(It’s) absolutely hell,” sister-in-law, Keeta Floyd tells CBS News. “They don’t realize the things that are going on behind the scenes, for every life that has been lost since the death of George Floyd. It’s extremely painful. It’s a wound that never heals.” …
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