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Hamas' attack on Israel pushes foreign policy into the 2024 race. That could benefit Nikki Haley 10/11/2023 07:29am • CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley has long tried to set herself apart from her Republican presidential rivals on foreign policy, peppering her speeches with anecdotes about serving as United Nations ambassador and the threats she sees from China and Russia. The war provoked by Hamas' attack on Israe Editorial Roundup: United States 10/11/2023 07:05am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 7 The Washington Post on U.S. interest rates Borrowing is expensive again, as anyone who has tried to buy a car or home lately can tell you. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark for home loans, is hovering ar Republicans are divided on far-right move to remove McCarthy as House speaker, an AP-NORC poll shows 10/11/2023 12:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The unprecedented ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has left no consensus among Republicans about whether his removal was the right move as the party struggles to coalesce around a new leader, according to a new poll. Only one-quarter of Republicans say they approve of the Kevin Phillips, strategist who forecast rising Republican power, dies at 82 10/10/2023 09:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Phillips, the author, commentator and political strategist whose landmark book, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” became a blueprint for Republican thinking in the 1970s and beyond, has died. He was 82. Phillips died Monday in a hospice near his home in Naples, Florida, Gainful Employment Rule: What Students Should Know 10/10/2023 08:00pm • College programs with a pattern of leading graduates to low-paying jobs or leaving them with debt they can't afford could lose access to federal financial aid money beginning in 2026 under a rule change announced by the Biden Administration in September 2023. As the cost of attending college continu How Spending Limits Can Help Partners Avoid Money Conflicts 10/10/2023 08:00pm • Couples in long-term relationships share many parts of life -- including their finances. But does that mean you have to check with your partner before every purchase you make? Julia Carpenter brought up this important topic in her recent article in The Wall Street Journal, $50 or $500: When Do We Te 7 of the Best Tax-Free Municipal Bond Funds 10/10/2023 08:00pm • While there are numerous strategies to optimize investment returns, one of the simplest yet most effective tactics is asset location, especially for those in a high tax bracket. This refers to the practice of strategically placing investments in accounts based on their tax treatment to maximize retu How Soon Can I Refinance My Mortgage? 10/10/2023 08:00pm • If you've had your mortgage for a while or have built equity in your home, you may have thought about refinancing your mortgage. Refinancing is when you take out a new home loan to pay off the existing one to gain some financial benefit, such as locking in a lower interest rate. How soon you can ref Troy Dannen jumps at rare opportunity to take over as athletic director at Washington 10/10/2023 07:08pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Troy Dannen was happy in New Orleans. The athletic program he took over at Tulane in 2015 was thriving, especially a football program still basking in what was accomplished last season. But when the job as athletic director at Washington came open in August and Dannen became identif Biden's second try at student loan cancellation moves forward with debate over the plan's details 10/10/2023 05:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s second attempt at student loan cancellation moved forward Tuesday with a first round of negotiations to help guide the administration to a new plan. The Biden administration vowed to try again after the Supreme Court rejected an earlier plan in June. In op Business Highlights: The long-awaited Amazon antitrust lawsuit, Taylor Swift's blockbuster tour 10/10/2023 04:35pm • ___ The Amazon antitrust lawsuit is likely to be a long and arduous journey for the FTC NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon is the most aggressive move it has taken yet to tame the market power of a company that’s become synonymous with Biden is trying again on student loan forgiveness. Here's where the process stands 10/10/2023 02:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is making another attempt at student loan cancellation after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that his administration couldn’t forgive $400 billion in student loan debt using a 2003 law called the HEROES Act. The first of three hearings took place Tue Labour Party leader Keir Starmer makes his pitch to UK voters with a speech vowing national renewal 10/10/2023 01:18pm • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech on Tuesday that amounted to a public job interview for the post of prime minister, promising to restore Britain’s battered institutions and end an “age of insecurity” afflicting its people. Starmer told the op Pennsylvania universities are still waiting for state subsidies. It won't make them more affordable 10/10/2023 11:44am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Four of Pennsylvania’s universities are plugging budget gaps while they await hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that has been snarled in a partisan dispute among lawmakers in a state that has one of the nation’s most abysmal records for funding higher education. Edu China touts its Belt and Road infrastructure lending as an alternative for international development 10/10/2023 10:56am • BEIJING (AP) — China is touting its 10-year-old Belt and Road Initiative as an alternative model for economic development, releasing a government report that praises the program while glossing over criticism that it has saddled poor countries with too much debt. The program championed by Chinese