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How to Lower Your Student Loan Payments 06/19/2023 08:00pm • Student loan payments can drain your monthly budget and make it more difficult to reach other financial goals, like saving money for retirement or buying a home. Thankfully, there are ways to lower your student loan payments, whether you have federal loans, private loans or a mix of both. Here are f How Do Share Secured Loans Work? 06/19/2023 08:00pm • A share-secured loan uses the money in your savings account as collateral. Aside from providing a convenient way to borrow, share-secured loans can help with establishing and rebuilding credit when they're repaid on time. Here's how to decide if a savings-secured loan is right for you. What Is a Sha Expert advice: How to navigate current interest rate environment 06/19/2023 04:39pm • This is the second article in our series, Money Matters. The last year has seen interest rates rise for consumers on loans of all types, including mortgages and car loans. And as home prices and car prices have also gone up, high interest rates sting more. For about a decade, interest rate Real Madrid signs Spain striker Joselu on loan from Espanyol 06/19/2023 09:09am • MADRID (AP) ��� Real Madrid signed Spain striker Joselu on a one-year loan from Espanyol on Monday, boosting its attack after the departures of Karim Benzema, Marco Asensio, Eden Hazard and Mariano D��az. Madrid said it will have an option to buy the 33-year-old player at the end of next season. Jos Wages are finally rising in Japan, as inflation eats away at consumer gains 06/19/2023 07:56am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Wages are rising in Japan more than they have in decades, at least for some workers. But so are prices, leaving many people feeling they must scrimp more than ever. In May, the consumer price index was up 3.2% from a year earlier, well above the central bank���s target of about 2%. T Japan's emperor meets with Indonesian president on his first official foreign trip as monarch 06/19/2023 04:37am • BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) ��� Japanese Emperor Naruhito met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday during his first official foreign trip since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019. Widodo and first lady Iriana welcomed Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Bogor presidential palace, along w This Week: FedEx earns, existing US home sales, CarMax earns 06/19/2023 03:10am • A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: TIME TO DELIVER FedEx delivers its latest quarterly snapshot Tuesday. Wall Street predicts the package delivery company will report lower earnings and revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter than in the same period l Violent crime within Israel's Palestinian minority reaches new heights under Netanyahu's government 06/18/2023 03:09am • LOD, Israel (AP) ��� A relentless wave of violent crime within Israel���s Palestinian minority is turning cities and towns into bloody battlefields, exasperating a community feeling increasingly forsaken by Israeli authorities. Anger over the mounting insecurity is directed at Israel's government a UN steps up criticism of IMF and World Bank, the other pillars of the post-World War II global order 06/17/2023 12:06am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� From the ashes of World War II, three institutions were created as linchpins of a new global order. Now, in an unusual move, the top official in one ��� the secretary-general of the United Nations ��� is pressing for major changes in the other two. Antonio Guterres says the I Friday's Transactions 06/16/2023 10:30pm • Major League Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES ��� C Mark Kolozsvary has cleared outright waivers and elected free agency. Assigned RHP Mychal Givens to Norfolk (IL) on a rehab assignment. CHICAGO WHITE SOX ��� Placed RHP Mike Clevinger on the 15-day IL, retroactive to June 15. Recalled RHP Florida couple charged with more than $2M in COVID-19 relief fraud 06/16/2023 02:17pm • FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) ��� A southwest Florida couple has been charged with stealing more than $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds and using the money to buy boats, new businesses and other luxury items. Timothy Craig Jolloff, 46, and Lisa Ann Jolloff, 56, made their initial appearances Friday in For Brighton signs Germany midfielder Mahmoud Dahoud from Dortmund; Bakayoko leaves Chelsea 06/16/2023 11:27am • BRIGHTON, England (AP) ��� Germany midfielder Mahmoud Dahoud will sign for Brighton on a free transfer after Borussia Dortmund allowed his contract to expire. Brighton said Friday that the 27-year-old Dahoud will join on a four-year contract. His contract with Dortmund ends on June 30. ���I���m exci Agricultural producers and food businesses throughout nation getting $320 million boost from USDA 06/16/2023 08:26am • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ��� The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeding agricultural producers and food businesses with millions of dollars in investment funds to improve markets, create and strengthen jobs, control food prices and improve nutrition, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday. ���We're her Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs 06/16/2023 08:15am • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ��� The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of ���Vida Libre,��� or ���free life,��� a gang rehabilitation program founded in El Salvador by American pastor Kenton Moody in 2021. The trust that Moody puts in former gang members is not widely shared. Thousands o What Is a Certificate Program? 06/15/2023 08:00pm • The job market can be tough to navigate when you lack qualifications for a desired job. But earning a certificate in a particular skill or occupation can help you get started in a new field or advance your career. "Certificates in numerous fields from health care and business to manufacturing and te