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US average mortgage rates flat to lower; 30-year at 2.77% 08/05/2021 02:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Mortgage rates were flat to lower this week, with the average for the key 30-year home loan below 3% for the sixth straight week. Uncertainty over the surging delta coronavirus variant and its potential effect on the U.S. economic recovery remained as a backdrop suppressing mortg 7 Monthly Dividend Stocks With Large Yields 08/05/2021 12:00am • Tap into five times the dividend yield of the S&P 500.In recent years, a small group of stocks wowed investors with double-digit dividend yields. Income has lately been much harder to come by as the average annual dividend yield of the S&P 500 has plummeted to 1.31% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq How to Give Yourself a Midyear Financial Checkup 08/05/2021 12:00am • Without regular maintenance, financial plans tend to fall apart. Relief benefits are changing, market conditions are evolving and plans made six months ago might not make much sense today if any major life events have since occurred. Enter the midyear financial checkup. A midyear financial checkup Federal agency OKs $29M for flood-hit Detroit residents 08/04/2021 04:23pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� The Federal Emergency Management Agency has so far approved about $29 million in grants for Detroit residents whose homes and property suffered damage from heavy flooding during a late June storm. FEMA teams were in Detroit neighborhoods Wednesday speaking with residents and busines Trinity Washington University uses American Rescue Plan funds to pay down student debt 08/04/2021 04:16pm • Elizabeth Silva, left, and Annissa Young, right, who both had their Trinity student balances cleared. (Courtesy Trinity Washington University) Trinity Washington University announced that it has paid off $2.3 million in balances from over 500 undergraduate students of the university, in part usi How to chop remodeling costs when wood prices are high 08/04/2021 12:28pm • Wood costs have skyrocketed over the last year, leaving would-be home renovators to choose between waiting in price purgatory or moving forward and possibly overpaying. Lumber mills incorrectly predicted that the housing market would crumble under the weight of the pandemic rather than boom as it di Pandemic travel bans divide loved ones across borders 08/04/2021 10:01am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Quintin Sweat and Ren��e Harrison live only 15 minutes apart by car, with the U.S.-Canada border between them. But the couple, who got engaged in 2019, has only been able to be together three times during the pandemic. Travel restrictions mean Harrison must drive four hours from h Repayment Resources for Minority Student Loan Borrowers 08/04/2021 12:00am • The cost of a college education has always had a plus-minus balance sheet attached to it. To improve your career potential, you often need a degree, and earning one frequently means paying costly tuition -- something many people struggle with. For many students, investing in their future comes with The Latest: Judge says migrant stops could worsen pandemic 08/03/2021 07:38pm • AUSTIN, Texas ��� A federal judge has ordered Texas to keep state troopers from stopping vehicles that are carrying migrants on the grounds that the migrants may spread the coronavirus. The temporary restraining order handed down Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone comes as coronavirus How to chop remodeling costs when wood prices are high 08/03/2021 05:04pm • Wood costs have skyrocketed over the last year, leaving would-be home renovators to choose between waiting in price purgatory or moving forward and possibly overpaying. Lumber mills incorrectly predicted that the housing market would crumble under the weight of the pandemic rather than boom as it di Egypt president vows to increase price of subsidized bread 08/03/2021 02:14pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Egypt���s president has vowed to raise the price of government-subsidized bread. It would be the latest in a series of austerity measures taken by his government in recent years to overhaul the country���s economy. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi offered no further details on the amo Giant panda in French zoo gives birth to 'lively' twin girls 08/02/2021 09:16pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A giant panda on loan to France from China gave birth to female twin cubs early Monday, a French zoo announced, declaring ���they are very lively, pink and plump.��� The Beauval Zoo, south of Paris, said the twins were born shortly after 1 a.m. They weigh 149 and 129 grams (5.3 and 4. Review: So���s fiction debut finds humor, pathos in genocide 08/02/2021 10:39am • ���Afterparties,��� by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco) In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia, establishing a regime whose fanatical policies led to the death of more than a quarter of the country���s population. 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