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Greece rid of budget watch but inflation, energy woes bite 08/20/2022 09:34am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — With more of a whisper than a resounding clang, Greece has shed another restriction dating to its painful financial bailout years. Saturday's formal end of “enhanced surveillance” by European Union creditors means the country will no longer face quarterly scrutiny of its Crypto has been touted as key to building Black wealth, but critics are skeptical 08/20/2022 04:04am • Samson Williams was working in the mortgage lending industry in 2014 when a colleague convinced him to invest in cryptocurrency. At the time, Williams didn't know much about cryptocurrency but decided to invest a little more than $200 to see where it would get him. "No one knew what it was," W IMF fees on war-torn countries closer to elimination 08/20/2022 12:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is facing pressure to reevaluate how it imposes fees on loans it disperses to needy countries like war-torn Ukraine — which is one of the fund’s biggest borrowers. The move comes as more countries will need to turn to the IMF, as food prices a California nuke extension challenged in legislative proposal 08/19/2022 10:19pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A proposal circulated Friday by California Democratic legislators would reject Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to extend the lifespan of the state's last operating nuclear power plant — and instead spend over $1 billion to speed up the development of renewable energy, new tran Accreditor of for-profit colleges loses federal recognition 08/19/2022 06:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department has canceled its recognition of an accrediting agency that oversees mostly for-profit colleges, placing in jeopardy the survival of schools that serve about 5,000 students. The decision bars colleges certified by the Accrediting Council for Independent Co Bank of Cyprus rejects 3 Lone Star bids for share buyout 08/19/2022 02:49pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ largest bank, Bank of Cyprus, said Friday it has rejected three successive cash bids over the last three months by LSF XI Investments LLC to buy all its share capital on the grounds that they “fundamentally undervalue” the financial institution. In a statement, Prosecutors: Alex Murdaugh stole from brother; family firm 08/19/2022 01:52pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with killing his wife and son has been indicted on another round of financial crimes. This time, prosecutors said Alex Murdaugh stole $295,000 from his brother and the law firm founded by his prominent legal family a century ago. Mu Prince William charity invests with bank tied to dirty fuels 08/19/2022 01:14pm • LONDON (AP) — The conservation charity founded by Prince William, second in line to the British throne and who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world's biggest backers of fossil fuels, The Associated Press has learned. The Royal Foundation also place Madrid transfers young forward Reinier on loan to Girona 08/19/2022 11:02am • MADRID (AP) — Young attacking midfielder Reinier will play for Girona this season on a loan from Real Madrid. The 20-year-old Brazilian arrived in Madrid at the beginning of 2020 but had played the last two seasons on loan at Borussia Dortmund. He signed with Madrid from Brazilian club Flamengo fo Nottingham Forest seals 16th transfer by signing Gibbs-White 08/19/2022 07:40am • LONDON (AP) — Another day, another signing by Nottingham Forest. Make that No. 16 in this transfer window after Morgan Gibbs-White joined from Wolverhampton on Friday for a reported fee of 25 million pounds ($29.65 million), which would be a club record for Forest. Forest has had to bulk up its sq Sri Lanka hopes to reach initial agreement with IMF for help 08/18/2022 08:45pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's central bank chief said Thursday he hopes the government can reach a preliminary agreement that could lead to a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund when its officials visit the crisis-hit island nation later this month. The Indian Ocean countr Head of Oregon’s troubled public defense system is fired 08/18/2022 05:39pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The head of Oregon’s public defenders’ office was fired Thursday in a clash over how to solve a dire shortage of attorneys to represent people too poor to afford a lawyer. Critics for years have said Oregon’s unique public defense system is in crisis, with far too few atto Trump executive pleads guilty in tax case, agrees to testify 08/18/2022 03:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes on a free apartment and other perks, striking a deal with prosecutors that could make him a star witness against the company at a trial this fall. Allen Weisselberg, a seni Egypt appoints central bank caretaker chief amid crisis 08/18/2022 12:07pm • CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president on Thursday appointed a caretaker governor of the central bank, the president's office said, a day after the bank's chief resigned amid a grinding economic crisis triggered by Russia's war on Ukraine. According to a statement, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi named H Traders bet on builder stocks despite slowing housing market 08/18/2022 11:30am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. housing market has gone from red-hot to decidedly tepid since the spring, though you wouldn’t know it by this summer's sharp rebound in homebuilder's stocks. Lennar, D.R. Horton and other homebuilders have outpaced the benchmark S&P 500 so far this quarter. One pr