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Fed's Powell highlights slowing job market in signal that rate cuts may be nearing 07/09/2024 12:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market as well as persistently high prices, Chair Jerome Powell said in testimony Tuesday to Congress, a shift in emphasis away from the Fed's single-minded fight against inflation of the past two years that suggests it is moving closer to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is investigated over alleged illicit financing in 2022 vote 07/09/2024 10:35am • PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday it opened a preliminary investigation last week into suspicions of illicit financing of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen’s campaign during the 2022 presidential election. The office told The Associated Press that the judicial probe o Croatian forward Biuk completes transfer from Los Angeles to Real Valladolid 07/09/2024 08:56am • MADRID (AP) — Croatian forward Stipe Biuk has completed a transfer from Los Angeles in Major League Soccer to Spanish side Real Valladolid. MLS said in a statement that Valladolid exercised an option to acquire the 21-year-old who had been at Valladolid on loan since January and helped the team ea What Is an E-Check? 07/08/2024 08:00pm • E-checks are an electronic version of a paper check and are used to make payments online by both consumers and businesses through a data network. If you've entered your banking information online to make a direct payment, like with recurring rent or car payments, you've probably used an e-check befo How to Save for Your Honeymoon While Paying for a Wedding 07/08/2024 08:00pm • Congratulations, you've found your life partner and you're ready to start your next chapter. Part of the excitement of an engagement is creating the wedding of your dreams and planning your honeymoon. But paying for both is an expensive proposition. According to Fidelity, more couples are paying for Recession 2024: What to Watch and How to Prepare 07/08/2024 08:00pm • The U.S. economy is on relatively solid footing heading into the second half of 2024. But while inflation has cooled, progress has been choppy and inconsistent. Labor markets have remained stable, but the Federal Reserve has been forced to delay its pivot to interest rate cuts. Many economists, incl 10 of the Best Stocks to Buy for 2024 07/08/2024 08:00pm • Stocks took a strong turn upward in 2023, sparked by the slowing pace of rate hikes, declining inflation and a resilient job market: a trio of good omens that could portend the elusive but highly desired "soft landing" for the U.S. economy. That momentum has continued in the early days of 2024, with Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition 07/08/2024 02:28pm • Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday. Starting in the fall, the donation will cover full tuition for medical students from families earning less than $300,000. Living expenses and fees Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods 07/08/2024 10:45am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ruben Berrios knows the scorching truth: When it comes to extreme heat, where you live can be a matter of life and death. The 66-year-old lives in Mott Haven, a low-income neighborhood in New York’s South Bronx, where more than 90 percent of residents are Latino or Black. Every s The US housing slump deepened this spring. Where does that leave home shoppers and sellers? 07/08/2024 07:31am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The housing market shows few signs of busting out of its three-year funk after a disappointing spring season and amid a gloomy outlook for the summer and fall. Home shoppers came into 2024 with optimism that mortgage rates would ease further after a decline late last year. But t Loudoun Co. man charged in yearslong $20 million investment scam 07/07/2024 11:12am • Prosecutors announced the indictment of an Aldie, Virginia, man for his alleged part in a multiyear lending scam that defrauded dozens of investors in Maryland, Virginia and other jurisdictions. A federal grand jury indicted 46-year-old Babu Ramaraj on charges of wire fraud and unlawful monetary Super sub Wout Weghorst to the rescue for the Netherlands at Euro 2024 07/06/2024 07:55pm • BERLIN (AP) — Where there’s a Wout, there’s a way. A goal down at half-time in its European Championship quarterfinal against Turkey, the Netherlands turned to 1.97-meter-tall (6-foot-5) forward Wout Weghorst to dig it out of a hole. Weghorst provided the key to unlocking the stubborn Turkish Japan partners with Cambodia to share demining knowledge with Ukraine, other countries 07/06/2024 12:04pm • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Japan’s foreign minister on Saturday announced a joint project with Cambodia to share knowledge and technology on land mine removal with countries around the world, including Ukraine. Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa made comments during a visit to the Cambodian Mine Ac UEFA clears City, United, Girona and Nice to play in European competitions next season 07/05/2024 12:18pm • GENEVA (AP) — Spanish side Girona and French club Nice were cleared along with English teams Manchester City and United to play in European competitions next season after they complied with multi-club ownership rules, UEFA said on Friday. Girona finished third in La Liga to qualify for the Champio Parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue to buy Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion 07/04/2024 04:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue has signed a deal to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus Group, which owns Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores, for $2.65 billion, with online behemoth Amazon holding a minority stake. The new entity will be called Saks Global, creating a