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Monk, attorney charged with $3.5M pandemic relief fraud 10/13/2022 06:55pm • BOSTON (AP) — A man who presents himself as a Orthodox Christian monk and an attorney he lived with fraudulently obtained $3.5 million in federal pandemic relief funds for nonprofit religious organizations and related businesses they controlled, and spent some of it to fund a “lavish lifestyle,â Mississippi judge blocks private schools' tax-funded grants 10/13/2022 06:35pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge on Thursday blocked a state law that put $10 million of federal pandemic relief money into infrastructure grants for private schools. The ruling by Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin is a victory for Parents for Public Schools. The nonprofit g Worsening inflation will pressure Fed to keep raising rates 10/13/2022 04:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States accelerated in September, with the cost of housing and other necessities intensifying pressure on households, wiping out pay gains and ensuring that the Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates aggressively. Consumer prices, excluding volati How Social Security works and what to know about its future 10/13/2022 10:43am • NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of millions of older Americans will see a major increase in benefits this January when a new cost-of-living adjustment (or COLA) is added to Social Security payments. The 8.7% raise is meant to help them with higher prices for food, fuel, and other goods and services. The ave Average long-term US mortgage rates up another quarter point 10/13/2022 10:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates reached their highest level in more than two decades this week and are likely to climb further as the Federal Reserve has all but promised more rate increases in its battle to tamp down persistent inflation. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reporte Indonesia gears up to start its first high-speed rail line 10/13/2022 07:19am • BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is preparing to start Southeast Asia’s first high-speed rail service that will cut travel time between two cities from the current three hours to about 40 minutes. The railway line, which connects Indonesia's capital Jakarta and Bandung, the heavily populated Had enough? S&P plunge could deepen if recession takes hold 10/13/2022 06:10am • NEW YORK (AP) — If the economy really is headed for a recession, the stock market may have still more to drop. The S&P 500 came into this week having already plunged roughly 24% from its record high earlier this year. But history shows the average U.S. recession since 1947 has brought an ev Questions to Ask Your High School Counselor When Applying to College 10/12/2022 08:00pm • Senior year of high school can feel like a dizzying array of applications, deadlines, exams and tours. While some prospective college students can seek advice about the application process from siblings, relatives or friends who have gone through it, many will turn to their school counselors for ans UN: 75% of 6 million Venezuelan migrants go unfed, unhoused 10/12/2022 07:11pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) — The United Nations said Wednesday that almost three-quarters of the 6 million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America do not have adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care. The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said in a report that 4.37 million Brugge draws with Atlético, advances in Champions League 10/12/2022 06:53pm • MADRID (AP) — No matter how, goalkeeper Simon Mignolet was going to make sure Club Brugge got the point it needed to advance to the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time in three decades. Mignolet made save after save, including one with his face in the final minutes at the Metropolit Rough times ahead: Hurricane Ian batters SW Florida economy 10/12/2022 04:08pm • FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian has come and gone but it still could deliver prolonged blows to the local economy, walloping small businesses heavily dependent on tourists and seasonal residents. Scenes of destruction in southwestern Florida will keep many winter tourists an Federal judge weighs effort to halt student loan forgiveness 10/12/2022 03:45pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in St. Louis is weighing the fate of the Biden administration's plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans following a court hearing on Wednesday. It's unclear when U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey will rule on the lawsuit filed by six Repu What spiking US veterinary prices reveal about inflation 10/12/2022 03:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Most pets hate visiting the vet. Now it's becoming a lot more unpleasant for their owners, too. America's worst bout of inflation in four decades has swollen the cost of your dog or cat's visit to the animal doctor. Prices for vet services have jumped 10% in the past year, govern Fed voiced determination at last meeting to curb inflation 10/12/2022 02:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting stressed their commitment to taming “unacceptably high’’ inflation before announcing that they were raising their benchmark interest rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaling more Connecticut GOP candidate acknowledges work in Saudi Arabia 10/12/2022 02:28pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — For months, Bob Stefanowski, the Republican candidate for governor in Connecticut, declined to reveal the clients of his lucrative business consulting firm, saying he had a duty to customers to keep certain things confidential. Democrats wielded the lack of transparency like