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Frustration grows over wait on OxyContin maker's settlement 04/29/2023 02:37pm • More than a year after OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative settlement over the toll of opioids that was accepted nearly universally by the groups suing the company — including thousands of people injured by the drug — money is still not rolling out. Parties waiting to finalize the Facing revolt, GOP spares ethanol in drive to cut spending 04/29/2023 12:38am • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are touting their debt limit package as a first step toward fiscal restraint, saying it’s past time for Congress to reduce the swelling deficits that they warn are threatening the fiscal health of the country. But when a group of Midwestern Republicans went m Global Citizen NOW summit yields commitments, big and small 04/28/2023 11:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Hugh Evans highlighted a staggering new statistic to explain why this year’s Global Citizen NOW conference was packed with calls to action and urgent requests for involvement. The CEO of Global Citizen, who has been fighting against extreme poverty since he was 14, told The Assoc N. Carolina justices hand GOP big wins with election rulings 04/28/2023 08:00pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In massive victories for Republicans, the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased. The partisan ger Man United sale: Sheikh Jassim, Jim Ratcliffe make 3rd bids 04/28/2023 06:42pm • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a third round of bidding for Manchester United, Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe are still hoping to take control of the storied soccer team. Persons with knowledge of the bids said the latest offers were submitte NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 04/28/2023 06:17pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ No, Fauci didn’t say face masks were a ‘failu Prince George's Co. schools close out financial literacy month with tips on managing money 04/28/2023 12:24pm • Students who have taken part in a financial literacy program at High Point High School in Beltsville, Maryland, closed out Financial Literacy Month in April with a talk from Yanely Espinal about the money management lessons she learned the hard way in life. They're lessons that numerous Americans Sri Lankan Parliament votes to support IMF recovery program 04/28/2023 10:50am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Parliament voted Friday to support the implementation of a four-year International Monetary Fund program aimed at solving the country’s economic crisis and reducing its debt burden. The proposal, introduced by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also f Europe's economy barely grows as inflation pinches consumers 04/28/2023 09:41am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European economy scraped out meager growth in the first three months of the year, barely gaining momentum as stubborn inflation raises the price of groceries and erodes people’s willingness to spend paychecks that are failing to keep pace. Friday’s less-than-stell Debt ceiling: McCarthy wins 1st round, Biden eyes long game 04/27/2023 10:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy surprised Washington when he showed he could unite the House's raucous Republican majority to pass a sweeping package to raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for steep spending reductions, an opening bid awaiting President Joe Bidenâ West Virginia Gov. Justice running for Manchin’s Senate seat 04/27/2023 08:42pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday that he is running for Democrat Joe Manchin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024, setting up what could be a hard-fought campaign between two of the state’s most prominent politicians. Justice, an ultrawealthy busin Investing in Mortgage REITs (mREITs) in 2023 04/27/2023 08:00pm • Real estate can be an important part of any investor's portfolio, but investing in real estate can be costly and confusing. Most investors lack either the means or inclination to buy and manage individual rental properties. This is where real estate investment trusts, or REITs, come into play. "REIT Biden's student loan help would be 'annihilated' by GOP bill 04/27/2023 07:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan agenda would be all but obliterated by the U.S. debt legislation passed by House Republicans, dooming his mass cancellation s, scrapping a more generous loan repayment option and permanently barring future regulation around student debt. Repub Global Citizen's next campaign: Reform climate financing 04/27/2023 07:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley repeated her call Thursday to rewrite the rules of global development banks to relieve the debts of middle and lower income countries and increase funding for climate adaptation. “It cannot be easier for a young person to get a 30 year mortgag Business Highlights: Amazon results; CinemaCon 04/27/2023 04:45pm • ___ Amazon stocks surge after Q1 revenue, profit wins NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Thursday reported a slowdown in its cloud computing unit AWS, but stronger-than-expected revenue and profits for the first quarter sent its stocks higher in after-hours trading. The Seattle-based company said it pulled