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What Is a Wholesale Mortgage Lender? 08/24/2025 08:00pm • There are two main sources of mortgages for consumers: retail lenders and wholesale lenders. Retail lenders loan their own money and employ loan officers to work directly with customers. The alternative is a wholesale mortgage. Borrowers don't interact with wholesale lenders directly. What Is a Whol 7 Best Funds for Retirement 08/24/2025 08:00pm • A well-planned retirement should draw income from multiple sources. These can include Social Security, annuities and rental income. But more commonly in today's self-directed landscape that has replaced traditional pensions, the focus is on assets held in accounts like a Roth IRA or 401(k). For thes What to know: Four ways ICE is training new agents and scaling up 08/24/2025 01:21pm • BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) ��� Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an agency inside the Department of Homeland Security that is integral to President Donald Trump���s vision of carrying out the mass deportations he promised during the campaign. Deportation officers within a unit called Enforcement and R Push to recruit Kurds and religious minorities to Syrian security forces brings hope and skepticism 08/24/2025 05:17am • AFRIN, Syria (AP) ��� Young Kurdish men, including members of religious minorities, recently signed up to join the Syrian government���s General Security forces in Afrin, an area in the country���s north from which Kurds were forcibly displaced years ago. The push to recruit ethnic and religious min War-displaced Sudanese return to shattered Khartoum eager to rebuild lives and homes 08/24/2025 02:10am • KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) ��� All that remains of Afaf al-Tayeb���s home in Sudan���s Khartoum province is a charred, windowless structure with peeling paint ��� yet in June, she eagerly returned, feeling safe again for the first time since the Sudanese army said it retook the capital from the rival Rapi Ukraine���s independence-era voices say Russia's effort to keep control has lasted decades 08/24/2025 01:16am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Oleksandr Donii was one of the leaders of student-led protests for sovereignty and political reform in 1990 that preceded Ukraine���s declaration of independence. He remembers thinking the fight for autonomy would take decades. Instead, it came much sooner than he ever imagine Trump ran on a promise of revenge. He's making good on it 08/23/2025 06:45pm • Donald Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him. He now appears to be fulfilling that campaign promise while threatening to expand his powers well beyond Washington. On Friday, the FBI searched the home of John Bolton, Trump���s fir Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that's nearly complete 08/23/2025 02:38pm • The Trump administration halted construction on a nearly complete offshore wind project near Rhode Island as the White House continues to attack the battered U.S. offshore wind industry that scientists say is crucial to the urgent fight against climate change. Danish wind farm developer Orsted says What to know about visas for foreign truckers and the politics of a deadly Florida crash 08/23/2025 01:33pm • Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week that the U.S. will pause issuing work visas to some foreign truck drivers, warning darkly that they are ���endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.��� He provided no details Thursday in his two-sentence post Bolivia's Supreme Court issues rare order that could see detained right-wing politicians freed 08/23/2025 11:51am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� Bolivia���s Supreme Court on Friday ordered judges to urgently review whether three prominent right-wing leaders had been held in prison for too long without trials, threatening to reopen a tumultuous chapter in Bolivia's politics just days after a presidential election ende Iran confers with European nations on its nuclear program as sanctions deadline nears 08/22/2025 11:22pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran said Friday its foreign minister spoke by phone with his French, German and British counterparts to avoid the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran���s nuclear program, just days ahead of a European deadline. The call by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi The Latest: Justice Department releases transcript interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell 08/22/2025 09:40pm • The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein���s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton 08/22/2025 09:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said. Bolton, Epstein's former girlfriend told Justice Department she did not see Trump act in 'inappropriate way' 08/22/2025 08:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump, according to records released Friday meant to distance the Republican president from the disgraced financer. The Trump ���Militarization of politics���: How bucolic Bethesda woke up to FBI search on John Bolton 08/22/2025 07:55pm • (CNN) ��� Robert Hill called in sick to work when he heard about what was happening in his Bethesda, Maryland neighborhood. Every major cable news network was broadcasting from a house just a few streets away, but Hill had to see it for himself. When he got to the street where President Donald Tr