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Third air bag death confirmed, owners urged to get repairs 12/19/2022 10:20am • DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver. The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles to stop driving the Insider Q&A: Mat Ishbia, CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage 12/19/2022 08:10am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The housing market has slowed sharply this year as mortgage rates surged to a 20-year high, reducing homebuyers’ purchasing power at a time when home prices have kept climbing. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan has been falling in recent weeks, but remains d Mortgage Rates Expected to Surge Higher in 2023 12/18/2022 07:00pm • Mortgage rates reversed their downward trend this week, increasing for the first time in a month. The 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.77%, up from 6.65% the week prior. Fixed mortgage rates increased across all home loan products, while adjustable mortgage rates stayed about the same. Here are the cur Housing slump likely to continue but some see hopeful signs ahead 12/18/2022 07:29am • Mortgage rates have ticked down recently, but are still up dramatically from a year ago thanks to the surge in long-term bond yields as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates. While that's already had a negative impact on the housing market, we'll get more details this week about how much worse Greece passes 2023 budget, forecasts primary surplus 12/17/2022 08:40pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek Parliament has approved the country’s first budget in 13 years not to be drafted under the supervision of the country’s creditors. The 2023 budget passed 156-143 in the 300-member Parliament on Saturday evening after a sometimes tense five-day debate. The ruling $2B in loans to help Ukraine's ag, fuel import businesses 12/16/2022 02:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Private businesses in Ukraine are in line to receive $2 billion in financing arranged by the International Finance Corp. to help rebuild the country's agriculture and fuel import industries and other ventures, which have faced extensive losses because of the war. The IFC, a membe Pope returns Greece's Parthenon Sculptures in ecumenical nod 12/16/2022 12:14pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will send back to Greece the three fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures that the Vatican Museums have held for two centuries, in the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution of artifacts to their countries of origin. In announcing the deci As sports betting grows in Africa, many see a real scourge 12/16/2022 10:47am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Ugandan health official was so sure Argentina would win its World Cup soccer match against Saudi Arabia that he gambled $1,800 advanced to him by authorities as allowances for 243 people who had participated in a polio immunization campaign. Argentina lost, and the offi German FM to personally return 20 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria 12/16/2022 08:48am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's foreign minister will personally take 20 artifacts looted by Europeans during colonial times back to Nigeria when she visits to Africa's most populous country next week, her spokesman said Friday. The symbolic gesture follows an agreement earlier this year between Berlin an US recession a growing fear as Fed plans to keep rates high 12/16/2022 07:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) — After scaling 40-year highs, inflation in the United States has been slowly easing since summer. Yet the Federal Reserve seems decidedly unimpressed — and unconvinced that its fight against accelerating prices is anywhere near over. On Thursday, stock markets buckled on the How the Fed's rate hikes could affect your finances 12/15/2022 12:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve's move Wednesday to raise its key rate by a half-point brought it to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, the highest level in 14 years. The Fed's latest increase — its seventh rate hike this year — will make it even costlier for consumers and businesses to borrow for Average long-term US mortgage rates inch down this week 12/15/2022 12:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fifth straight week, even as the Federal Reserve just raised its key borrowing rate for the seventh time this year and signaled there were more to come in 2023. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average Prosecutors: Family used sham ministry to get COVID loans 12/15/2022 11:08am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Family members who ran a sham ministry have been charged with defrauding the federal government of COVID-19 relief funds in a scheme to buy a $3.7 million luxury home in a development at Walt Disney World, authorities said. Evan Edwards, 64, and his 30-year-old son, Joshua Edw 2022 Notebook: Climate catastrophe, and a bit of hope too 12/15/2022 11:02am • THE BACKGROUND: For those worried about climate change — and, by extension, the planet's future — 2022 was a mixed bag. Hurricanes and floods plagues many places, and the COP27 meeting in Egypt didn't end with as much progress as many activists hoped. Yet discussions about climate reparations b High inflation and efforts to tame it defined 2022 economy 12/15/2022 10:55am • WASHINGTON (AP) — For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good way. At times, it felt like the 1970s or early '80s. Inflation running rampant. The United States and its European allies engaged in a not-so-Cold War with Russia. A bleak outlook leaving people feeling sour and anx