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Social Security benefits will increase by 3.2% in 2024 as inflation moderates 10/12/2023 12:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year's historic boost and reflecting moderating consumer prices. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, means the average recipient will receive more than $50 more ev CFPB, FTC fine TransUnion $23M for tenant screening and security freeze failures 10/12/2023 12:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators fined credit-reporting agency TransUnion a total of $23 million for tenant screening and security freeze failures on Thursday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission fined TransUnion $15 million because the company did not take Struggling Malaysian budget carrier MyAirline abruptly suspends service, leaving travelers stranded 10/12/2023 11:25am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian budget carrier MYAirline abruptly suspended operations Thursday, citing financial pressures less than 11 months after it took to the skies. The cancellation of the airline's 40 flights stranded thousands of passengers. MYAirline made the announcement on soc Fresh off bye week, No. 6 Penn State ready to resume against UMass 10/12/2023 11:22am • STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State coach James Franklin had his players do some self-scouting during their bye last week. The Nittany Lions liked what they saw. They believe a slight tweak here or there is all they need. “I think we’re in a good place,” Franklin said. No. 6 Penn State (5-0 'Who knew it was here?' Hidden gem in Northern Virginia features waterfall, bamboo forest — and Hobbit village 10/12/2023 09:42am • #tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 10px;padding: 20px 10px;background: #D30000;text-align: center;font-weight: bold;color: #fff;border-radius: 5px;}.connatix_video_caption{margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top:0; font-size: 14px; color: #272828; font-weight: 600; text-align: left; display:none;} This page co Secretary Buttigieg, Md. Gov. Moore visit Prince George’s Community College to promote trucking industry 10/12/2023 09:41am • U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chatted with Daryl McLendon about how he learned about Prince George’s Community College’s Commercial Driver’s License program. “I looked it up online,” said McClendon, a student in the college’s CDL training program. “I went to the P.G. US jobless claims remain at historically low 209,000, a sign of continuing labor market strength 10/12/2023 08:45am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at historically low levels in another sign that the U.S. job market remains strong in the face of higher interest rates. Unemployment claims stayed at 209,000 for the week ending Oct. Bomb threat forces U-turn of Scoot plane traveling from Singapore to Perth, airline says 10/12/2023 08:40am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore low-cost airline Scoot said Thursday that one of its planes made a U-turn back to the city-state an hour after taking off for Perth due to a bomb threat and then landed safely. Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines Group, said Flight TR16 departed at 4:1 Germany is aiming to ease deportations as the government faces intense pressure on migration 10/12/2023 08:13am • BERLIN (AP) — The German government has drawn up legislation to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers and plans to discuss measures to tackle migration with the opposition as it tries to defuse what has become a major political problem. Shelters for migrants and refugees have been filli 2 people are killed and 6 are injured after car suspected of smuggling migrants overturns in Hungary 10/12/2023 06:06am • KISKUNMAJSA, Hungary (AP) — Two people were killed and six were injured in a car accident in Hungary early on Thursday after a vehicle suspected of transporting migrants entering the country illegally hit a tree and overturned. The accident occurred around 3 a.m. near Kiskunmajsa, in southern Hun How to talk about war with your kids, according to a local pediatrician 10/12/2023 05:21am • With global attention turned toward the conflict in Israel, many parents might be struggling to answer their kids' questions about war. It's important to check in with your child about these subjects regardless of their age, according to Dr. Anisha Abraham, the chief of the Division of Adolescent The Power 100 of 2023: The real estate and construction icons who will reshape the region 10/12/2023 05:00am • Real estate — especially office — is one of the sector's hurting most in Greater Washington right now, hollowed by the work-from-home trend. It's also the sector with the greatest upside. What happens to our physical landscape has great repercussions on our economy and the way we live and get Gaza is tiny and watched closely by Israel. But rescuing hostages there would be a daunting task 10/11/2023 11:57pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — The Hamas -run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 40 kilometers (25 miles) long and no more than 12 kilometers (7 miles) wide, surveilled continually by Israel, surrounded by its guns. But rescuing — or even locating — more than 150 hostages hustled there by Palestinian m Live updates | Day 5 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war 10/11/2023 09:57pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Hamas militants beheaded soldiers and raped women in their attack on Israel, and he vowed that Israel would “crush and destroy” Hamas in response to the attack. Netanyahu said every Hamas member was a “dead man.” Netanyahu made th France's top body rejects contention by campaigners that racial profiling by police is systemic 10/11/2023 09:55pm • PARIS (AP) — France’s highest administrative authority on Wednesday rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a systemic and generalized practice by French police of targeting Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks. Local grassroots organizations a