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Russia's Navalny accuses Le Pen of Kremlin ties before vote 04/20/2022 06:44pm • PARIS (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stepped abruptly into France’s tight presidential campaign Wednesday, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia. Le Pen has faced scrutiny Feds: Thousands may have student debt that should be erased 04/20/2022 05:43pm • Record-keeping failures by the federal government may have left thousands of Americans saddled with student debt that should have been automatically canceled through a benefit for low-income borrowers, according to a new federal study. In a scathing report released on Wednesday, the Government Accou IMF, World Bank chiefs warn of debt squeeze in poor nations 04/20/2022 02:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank warned Wednesday that rising interest rates are squeezing the world's poorest countries as they struggle with the coronavirus and soaring food prices. There is "a huge buildup of debt, especially in the poorest count Biden set for first Pacific Northwest trip since election 04/20/2022 01:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is stretching his legs this week with a rare overnight visit to the Pacific Northwest, heading to Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. The trip is part of an expanded travel schedule ahead of the November elections as Biden tries to demonstrate that he has made prog March home sales fall as mortgage rates, home prices climb 04/20/2022 10:52am • Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in March to the slowest pace in nearly two years as a swift rise in mortgage rates and record-high prices discouraged would-be homebuyers. Existing home sales fell 2.7% last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million, the N Big Buzzard Point development, with thousands of apartments, locks in financing 04/20/2022 10:15am • The Stacks, a planned 2-million-square-foot mixed use project in Southwest D.C.’s Buzzard Point, has secured an initial round of financing clearing the way for construction of its first phase. A joint venture involving Akridge, National Real Estate Advisors, Blue Coast Capital and Bridge Invest Asian shares mixed after tech-led rally on Wall Street 04/20/2022 12:39am • BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street led by technology stocks. Share benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but fell in Seoul and Shanghai. U.S. futures were lower and oil prices pushed higher. Japan reported its trade deficit persisted in Ma Sri Lanka police open fire at protesters; 1 dead, 13 injured 04/19/2022 08:47pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police opened fire Tuesday at people protesting new fuel price increases, killing one and injuring 13 others, in the first shooting by security forces during weeks of demonstrations over the country's worst economic crisis in decades. Fifteen police personnel w 7 Monthly Dividend Stocks With High Yields 04/19/2022 08:00pm • Instead of bonds, try these seven stocks that yield monthly income.The Federal Reserve recently raised interest rates for the first time since 2018. While rising rates are good news for income investors, the Fed's planned incremental 0.25% hikes mean interest rates will likely remain historically lo 10 Payday Advance Apps 04/19/2022 08:00pm • The TV commercials make payday advance apps sound so helpful: Are you short on cash? Just get your paycheck a couple of days early. You also can't blame anyone for being interested in the idea of getting a paycheck a couple days earlier. With inflation on the rise, it's easier than ever to find your Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants 04/19/2022 05:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change. A certification and bidding process opened Tuesday for a c NCAA sanctions Ohio State women's hoops, 2 other programs 04/19/2022 03:28pm • Ohio State's athletics department has been given four years probation and hit with other sanctions as a result of self-reported recruiting and policy violations in three women's sports, including basketball. The other violations, as outlined in a report issued Tuesday by the NCAA’s Division I Comm Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas 04/19/2022 02:31pm • Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white neighborhoods, according to a new study that suggests ongoing health risks in vulnerable communities are at least partly tied to historical structural racism. Black and Latino resi Editorial Roundup: United States 04/19/2022 01:57pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 13 The Guardian say the cost of living crisis is a global emergency The UK is sliding into a social and economic crisis, the likes of which its people have not seen for decades. Household fuel bills are on course to top £2,400 b Lebanon expects deal with World Bank on food security 04/19/2022 01:06pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon is close to reaching an agreement with the World Bank in which the international agency would give the crisis-hit country a $150 million loan for food security and to stabilize bread prices for the next six months, the economy minister said Tuesday. Amin Salam said talks with