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China's Evergrande says it is asking for US court to approve debt plan, not filing for bankruptcy 08/18/2023 07:04am • BEIJING (AP) — A giant Chinese real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on $340 billion in debt said Friday it is asking a U.S. court to approve a restructuring plan for foreign bondholders and rejected what it said were news reports that suggest it filed for bankruptcy. Evergr What Is Private Student Loan Consolidation? 08/17/2023 08:00pm • Private student loan consolidation, sometimes referred to as student loan refinancing, allows you to combine multiple student loans into a single loan through a private lender. Consolidating your student loans may reduce your monthly payments or help you get out of debt faster, especially if you qua What to Do if You Fall Behind on Bills 08/17/2023 08:00pm • Falling behind on paying your bills is one of the more stressful situations anyone can find themselves in -- and it's a circumstance many consumers can relate to. According to a study released in March 2023 from PYMNTS.com and LendingClub, 62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. If that's Ecuadorians vote Sunday for president after a campaign dominated by demands for safety 08/17/2023 06:17pm • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorians will choose a new president Sunday, less than two weeks after the South American country was shaken by the assassination of one of the candidates — a crime that laid bare people's fears over unprecedented violence in their once-calm nation. The winner faces The fall of Rudy Giuliani: How ‘America’s mayor’ tied his fate to Donald Trump and got indicted 08/17/2023 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani glared across a Washington hearing room as a lawyer seeking his disbarment after the Jan. 6 insurrection asked: How did this man, celebrated as “America’s mayor” after 9/11, become a leader of an attempt to overturn a national election? “It’s like there are Business Highlights: China tries to defuse concerns over economy; US mortgage rates at 20-year highs 08/17/2023 05:02pm • ___ China’s government tries to defuse economic fears after real estate developer’s debt struggle BEIJING (AP) — China’s government is trying to reassure jittery homebuyers after a major real estate developer missed a payment on its multibillion-dollar debt, reviving fears about the industry White House lawyer who advised Biden on pandemic and GOP investigations is set to leave next month 08/17/2023 12:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The top White House lawyer will leave next month after a nearly three-year run helping President Joe Biden weigh legal considerations as he implemented his pandemic response, battled Republican investigations and crafted major legislation. Stuart Delery joined Biden's transition Investment scams are everywhere on social media. Here's how to spot one 08/17/2023 11:15am • NEW YORK (AP) — Social media is full of scammers promising guaranteed returns on investment, and consumers lost billions of dollars to them last year. Troy Gochenour, 50, of Columbus, Ohio, was conned out of $25,800, including $15,800 in borrowed money, in a crypto-mining scam that began with a W China's Xi calls for patience as Communist Party tries to reverse economic slump 08/17/2023 04:13am • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said Western countries are “increasingly in trouble” because of their materialism and “spiritual poverty.” Xi’s speech was p China's government tries to defuse economic fears after real estate developer's debt struggle 08/17/2023 03:26am • BEIJING (AP) — China’s government is trying to reassure jittery homebuyers after a major real estate developer missed a payment on its multibillion-dollar debt, reviving fears about the industry’s shaky finances and their impact on the struggling Chinese economy. There is no indication Country When Your Adult Children Launch: What to Do With the Money You Aren't Spending on Them 08/16/2023 08:00pm • You took care of your children into adulthood, most likely at no minor cost. A 2022 Brookings Institute report found the projected average outlay from birth to age 18 for a child born in 2015 to a middle-class family with two children will be $310,605. Now that your adult children are on their own, How to Pay for Medical School 08/16/2023 08:00pm • Medical school is expensive, and for most future doctors, the burden of major debt may seem inevitable. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 71% of medical students in 2022 graduated with education debt, averaging more than $200,000 per student. High medical school debt forces A look at former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder's off-field scandals 08/16/2023 03:36pm • Dan Snyder remains in the news despite no longer owning the Washington Commanders. Snyder selling the team to a group led by Josh Harris and including Magic Johnson in July for a North American professional sports record $6.05 billion came with the NFL fining him $60 million for sexual harassment Syrian president doubles public sector wages as national currency spirals downwards 08/16/2023 09:33am • BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s president early Wednesday doubled public sector wages and pensions as the war-torn country’s national currency spiraled further downwards, reaching a new low for the year. President Bashar Assad issued the two decrees just before midnight Tuesday as the Syrian pound’s McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown at the end of next month 08/15/2023 10:48pm • Washington (AP) — Congressional leaders are pitching a stopgap government funding package to avoid a federal shutdown after next month, acknowledging the House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending levels to keep federal operations running. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the id