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Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates edge down to 5.25% 05/19/2022 10:52am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates retreated modestly this week, but interest on the key 30-year loan remains at decade-high levels. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate slipped to 5.25% from 5.3% last week. By contrast, the average rate stood at 'Twitter philanthropy' reveals chasms in social safety net 05/19/2022 09:51am • Single father Billy Price was already struggling to make ends meet before someone broke into his Michigan storage unit, stole his identity and ruined his credit. Price filed a police report, and then tweeted about it to Bill Pulte, a multimillionaire who he'd heard uses Twitter to give money to thos Live updates | Brink confirmed as US ambassador to Ukraine. 05/18/2022 10:20pm • WASHINGTON ��� The Senate confirmed Bridget Brink late Wednesday as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, filling the post as officials plan to return American diplomats to Kyiv during the nation���s continuing battle against the Russian invasion. The veteran foreign service officer, who has spent most of her Sri Lankan protesters include Tamil victims in war memorial 05/18/2022 08:39pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands ��� including ethnic Tamil civilians ��� killed in the final stages of the country���s decadeslong civil war, in the first-ever event where mostly majority ethnic Sinhalese openly memoria 9 Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $10 05/18/2022 08:00pm • These stocks under $10 won't break the bank.The S&P 500 is off to a shaky start in 2022, providing buying opportunities in high-quality stocks. Unfortunately, quality stocks trading for less than $10 per share are few and far between. Stocks priced at this level can be a red flag for investors t What Is a Mortgage Loan Officer? 05/18/2022 08:00pm • Getting a mortgage is no simple task. Whether you're buying or refinancing a home, the mortgage lending process involves navigating a path lined with paperwork and rules, and it can be confusing. Enter mortgage loan officers. A mortgage loan officer is a professional whose sole purpose is helping co More Student Aid May Be Available if You Received Pandemic Unemployment Benefits 05/18/2022 08:00pm • Millions of Americans signed up for unemployment benefits to make ends meet when the pandemic shuttered the global economy in 2020. Congress responded by passing critical relief legislation that, among many other things, suspended the normal rules of what counts as taxable income. During the upheava Family suing widow of late US lawmaker for medical expenses 05/18/2022 06:12pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Family members of the late U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota say his widow, Jennifer Carnahan, who is running to replace her husband in Congress, hasn't come through on a promise to pay them back medical expenses related to his cancer treatments. Carnahan calls it a political Live updates | UN Chief: War in Ukraine driving world hunger 05/18/2022 06:04pm • UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations chief said Wednesday he is in ���intense contacts��� with Russia and other countries to stop escalating global hunger exacerbated by the war in Ukraine by allowing the export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports and ensuring Russian food and fertilizers have unrest Target, Lowe's fall; TJX, Agilysys rise 05/18/2022 04:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Target Corp., down $53.67 to $161.61. The retailer's first-quarter profits were squeezed by higher costs amid persistently rising inflation. Lowe's Companies Inc., down $10.21 to $183.32. The home improvement r Qatar to boost investment in Spain by $4.9 billion 05/18/2022 01:02pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Qatar committed Wednesday to investing 4.7 billion euros ($4.9 billion) in Spain as the European country launches an economic overhaul with its share of European Union pandemic recovery funding. Qatar's emir, Shekih Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, announced that the energy-rich g With Roe in doubt, some fear tech surveillance of pregnancy 05/18/2022 10:52am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� When Chandler Jones realized she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice. Her cellphone. ���I couldn���t imagine before the internet, trying to navigate this,��� said Jones, 26, who graduated Tuesday from the Uni EU rushes out $300 billion roadmap to ditch Russian energy 05/18/2022 09:53am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The European Union���s executive arm moved Wednesday to jump-start plans for the 27-nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin���s war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion-euro ($315 billion) package that includes more efficient use of fuels and faster rollout of Colorado, Nebraska jostle over water rights amid drought 05/18/2022 08:08am • OVID, Colo. (AP) ��� Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day���s task: Carefully sowing hundreds of acres of seed between long rows of last year���s desiccated stalks to ensure the irrigati Liverpool beats Southampton 2-1, title race goes to the wire 05/17/2022 05:59pm • SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) ��� The Premier League title race is going to the wire. Remarkably, an unprecedented quadruple is still on for Liverpool. Tired and hit by injuries after winning the FA Cup final on Saturday, Liverpool fielded a second-choice lineup against Southampton and demonstrated a gr