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Sri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs China 06/30/2022 01:11am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest fo Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis 06/29/2022 09:08pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan town of Gampaha, northeast of the capital Colombo. Two weeks earlier, she spent three days in a queue for cooking gas — but came home 10 of the Best Bank Stocks to Buy for 2022 06/29/2022 08:00pm • Analysts see big upside for these undervalued bank stocks.After a big year in 2021 and a hot start to 2022, bank stocks have lagged along with the broader market this year. Aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate hikes could set up bank stocks for outsize earnings growth in the next couple of years Is College Worth the Cost? 06/29/2022 08:00pm • As the cost of tuition rises and the national student loan debt crisis continues to make headlines, families and students may wonder whether college is still a beneficial investment. Confidence in the value of education has declined in recent years. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in spr Lukaku completes return to Inter on loan from Chelsea 06/29/2022 04:17pm • MILAN (AP) — Romelu Lukaku will again look to revive his career back in Italy after completing a sensational return to Inter Milan on a one-year loan deal, just 10 months after joining Chelsea for $135 million as the seventh most expensive soccer player ever at the time. It’s a remarkable piece McCormick, Capital One fall; General Mills, Patterson rise 06/29/2022 04:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: General Mills Inc., up $4.46 to $74.72. The maker of Cheerios cereal, Yoplait yogurt and other packaged foods gave investors an encouraging profit forecast. McCormick & Co., down $1.21 to $85.63. The spices Giuliani's former Ukraine fixer gets 20 months in prison 06/29/2022 03:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in former President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes by a judge who said fraud had become “a way of life” World Bank agrees $500m to help Egypt fund wheat purchases 06/29/2022 08:45am • CAIRO (AP) — Egypt will receive a $500 million loan from the World Bank to help finance its wheat purchases as prices skyrocket because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the bank said Wednesday. The funds, approved Tuesday by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors, aim at supporting Egypt� Use College Goals to Choose High School Senior Year Courses 06/28/2022 08:00pm • The early years of high school, when students are focused on basic requirements and prerequisites for advanced classes, can offer very little course flexibility. Options, if any, may be limited to one precious elective. Seniors, however, tend to have more space in their schedules for courses that th Does Divorce Hurt Your Credit? 06/28/2022 08:00pm • Going through a divorce is incredibly stressful, especially if you're worried about your finances. Most people want to know if divorce hurts your credit. Divorce could affect the creditworthiness of both partners, but the impact depends on your financial circumstances as well as the details of your Tips for Budgeting in College 06/28/2022 08:00pm • Even if you intend to take as few math courses as possible at a university, you really can't get away from it: Budgeting in college is like one of those math word problems come to life. If you're starting the next chapter of higher education soon, you'll want to start thinking about how you're going As Fixed Rates Rise, Should You Consider an Adjustable-Rate Mortgage? 06/28/2022 08:00pm • In response to rising mortgage rates, many of today's homebuyers have been turning to adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs. The share of ARM loans jumped from around 3% in early January to nearly 11% in May, levels that haven't been seen since 2008, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. 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In these interviews, WTOP asked all the candidates the same or similar questions on education, public safety and crime, jobs and the economy, and transportation. The Maryland