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Black Lives Matter movement marks 10 years of activism and renews its call to defund the police 07/13/2023 06:18am • The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Gunned down in a Florida gated community where his father lived in 2012, Martin was one of the earliest symbols Borrowers advised to plan now for student loan payments to resume in October 07/13/2023 06:16am • For borrowers with federal student loan debt, repayments begin Oct. 1, and the D.C. Office of the Attorney General is advising consumers to gather the latest information on the status of their loans to prepare for that first payment date. The federal government paused student loan payments during IMF approves much-awaited $3 billion bailout for Pakistan, saving it from defaulting on debt 07/13/2023 01:03am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund approved a much-awaited $3 billion bailout for Pakistan on Wednesday, the global lender said, a move that's likely to save the nation from defaulting on its debt repayments. The IMF said its executive board approved an agreement to release the funds 5 Best Bond Funds for Retirement 07/12/2023 08:00pm • Bonds make up the foundation of any successful retirement portfolio. These assets are debt-related instruments issued by governments and corporations that are looking to raise money. Think of them as the other side of the loan, where the "issuer" is the borrower and investors are collectively the le The Best Vanguard Money Market Funds 07/12/2023 08:00pm • Money market funds don't offer the highest returns. They get left in the dust when the stock market rallies, but when equities tumble, investors give these funds a closer look. Money market funds generally don't endure the same volatility as stocks. While a Federal Reserve rate hike can cause dramat Antioxidants: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them? 07/12/2023 08:00pm • Anti-cancer, anti-aging, anti-dementia -- with health claims like these, it's no wonder people are looking for ways to increase antioxidant intake from the foods they eat to their skin care routines. But what exactly are antioxidants? And what can we do to harness the power of these mighty compounds Former Mozambique finance minister is extradited to the US to face trial over $2 billion scandal 07/12/2023 06:56pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A former Mozambique finance minister who has been held in prison in South Africa for nearly five years was extradited Wednesday to the United States to face a fraud and corruption trial over a $2 billion scandal involving fraudulent government loans. South African authorities s 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest than education, UN says 07/12/2023 02:45pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some 3.3 billion people – almost half of humanity – now live in countries that spend more money paying interest on their debts than on education or health, according to a new U.N. report released Wednesday. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a press conference l Editorial Roundup: United States 07/12/2023 02:15pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 10 The Guardian on the U.S. providing cluster bombs to Ukraine Twenty-thousand Laotians, almost half of them children, have been killed or injured by unexploded ordnance since the Vietnam war ended. It is half a century since the IMF approves much-awaited $3 billion bailout for Pakistan, saving the impoverished nation from defaulting on debt 07/12/2023 01:47pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — IMF approves much-awaited $3 billion bailout for Pakistan, saving the impoverished nation from defaulting on debt. Police say officers kill at least 6 as Kenyans protest rising costs, and 50 children are tear-gassed 07/12/2023 12:37pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A police official said officers killed six people Wednesday during new protests in Kenya against the rising cost of living, while a health worker said more than 50 schoolchildren in the capital, Nairobi, were tear-gassed. The opposition leader behind the demonstrations vowed Iran's leader, visiting Africa, attacks Western support for homosexuality as among 'dirtiest' things 07/12/2023 12:12pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iran’s president on a rare visit to Africa on Wednesday sharply criticized Western nations' support for homosexuality as one of the “dirtiest” episodes of human history. President Ebrahim Raisi spoke in Uganda, which recently passed anti-gay legislation prescribing the Bank of England says UK banks are resilient enough to offer struggling households support 07/12/2023 08:35am • LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England warned Wednesday that U.K. households are facing mounting financial difficulties from the sharp increase in interest rates but expressed hope that the country's biggest banks are resilient enough to offer more help than they could before the global financial crisi Chip maker Foxconn exits a semiconductor joint venture with Indian mining company Vedanta 07/12/2023 07:22am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Electronics giant Foxconn backed out of a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian mining conglomerate Vedanta Ltd. due to “external issues unrelated to the project,” it says, in a potential setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitions to build a chipmakin Smuggler sentenced to prison for deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in truck in UK 07/11/2023 11:21pm • LONDON (AP) — A Romanian man who was part of an international human smuggling ring was sentenced Tuesday to more than 12 years in prison for the deaths of 39 migrants from Vietnam who suffocated in a truck trailer on their way to England in 2019. Marius Mihai Draghici was the ringleader's right-ha