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A Guide to Borrowing Money From Family and Friends 07/20/2023 08:00pm • If you're trying to figure out how to ask family for money, you're probably feeling a lot of stress right now. If you're imagining how a conversation about borrowing money from your friends is going to go, you're probably feeling pretty anxious as well. And if you're thinking of how to ask strangers Legacy Admissions: What It Is and Why Colleges Are Reconsidering It 07/20/2023 08:00pm • For decades, some colleges have given students who are related to alumni preferential treatment in admissions. This advantage, known as legacy admissions, has long been controversial, but it's come under heightened scrutiny in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling against college admissio 12 Ways to Avoid the IRA Early Withdrawal Penalty 07/20/2023 08:00pm • Distributions from individual retirement accounts before age 59 1/2 typically trigger a 10% early withdrawal penalty. But the IRA withdrawal rules contain several exceptions to the penalty if you meet certain circumstances or spend the money on specific purchases. If you understand the guidelines, y DC United's Benteke, Miller share MLS All-Star experience 07/20/2023 06:34pm • Tyler Miller shuffled around the crowded locker room at Audi Field Wednesday night, holding his red goalkeeper and a black Sharpie marker. Once he saw one of MLS All-Star teammates free, he quickly placed the marker in the player's hands to sign. The jersey filled up with all the names of his tem Cambodia's leader returns to Facebook weeks after an acrimonious breakup with the platform 07/20/2023 05:03pm • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook account was reactivated Thursday, three weeks after he announced he was forsaking the social media giant in favor of posting on Telegram, a popular messaging app that also serves as a blogging tool. Hun Sen���s return to the F Awash in pink, everyone wants a piece of the 'Barbie' movie marketing mania 07/20/2023 03:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Pink sauce on that Burger King burger? What about ���Barbie-fying" your pet with sweaters and beds with Barbie motifs? If that's too low-brow, perhaps you'd be interested in hot pink Barbie monogrammed knit leggings by luxury designer Balmain instead, selling at Neiman Marcus for a Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 07/20/2023 01:34pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved 07/20/2023 10:55am • ▶ Watch Video: Probe reveals Customs and Border Protection failed to protect migrant child who died in May The life of a migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody in May could have been saved if she had been treated differently while in U.S. custody, a government official conceded Virginia's new transgender student policies draw criticism, support 07/20/2023 10:05am • Gov. Glenn Youngkin���s latest rollback of some policies regarding transgender students has led Virginians on both sides of the issue to speak out. Casey Calabia, a recent Fairfax County graduate, who also identifies as transgender, said she was angry about the changes. "It makes being a trans US jobless claims fall again as labor market continues to flash strength 07/20/2023 08:51am • Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week with the labor market continuing to cruise along despite higher interest rates intended to cool hiring. U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 228,000 for the week ending July 15, from 237,000 previous week, the Labor Depa Teens are using social media to diagnose themselves with ADHD, autism and more. Parents are alarmed 07/20/2023 07:54am • (CNN) — Some people browse TikTok and Instagram for recipes, memes and colorful takes on the news. Erin Coleman says her 14-year-old daughter uses these apps to search for videos about mental health diagnoses. Over time, the teen started to self-identify with the creators, according to her mot Women's World Cup team from Philippines has American flavor 07/20/2023 07:01am • DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) ��� For a nation more than 7,000 miles (11,265 kilometers) from the United States, the Philippines boasts a women���s national soccer team with a decidedly American feel. Of the 23 names on its Women���s World Cup roster, 18 belong to U.S.-born women. One of them, defender 'Be in the present moment': Accessible yoga classes in DC focus on overall health 07/20/2023 06:45am • Underneath a canopy of leaves, accompanied by a chorus of insects, Beth Kaplan's gentle voice casts a spell over Twin Oak Meadow, as she teaches an outdoor yoga class one Sunday morning in Tregaron Conservancy in Northwest D.C. "You can bend your knees, it might feel better on the lower back ��� Boat found off Senegal's coast adds to mystery over migrant vessels reported missing 07/20/2023 06:25am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� A boat carrying migrants was found in distress off the coast of Senegal, and more than 90 passengers remained missing after 50 were rescued and seven were discovered dead, a fishermen's association reported Wednesday. The boat was located in the Atlantic Ocean last Friday of Hiker's parents are retracing her final steps to raise money for safety education programs 07/20/2023 12:06am • BRETTON WOODS, N.H. (AP) ��� A young girl chatters to her mother as they descend Mount Pierce, her voice as bright and bouncing as her footsteps. ���You���re amazing!��� she calls out to a slower couple she passes on the trail. Until then, the couple has been focused on the physical effort of hiking