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How Much of My Monthly Budget Should Go to Student Loans? 09/15/2025 08:00pm • Once the grace period ends, borrowers are on the hook for monthly student loan payments. Finding room in your budget for those payments can be challenging, especially if you're juggling rent, groceries and other bills. While there's no set rule for how much of your budget should go toward student lo 10 of the Best REITs to Buy for 2025 09/15/2025 08:00pm • Real estate investments can be an excellent way to earn returns, generate cash flow, hedge against inflation and diversify an investment portfolio. However, buying physical properties can be costly, difficult and risky for an individual. Instead, investors can buy shares of diversified real estate i Shipping companies support a first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases, opposed by Trump officials 09/15/2025 07:48pm • Nearly 200 shipping companies said Monday they want the world���s largest maritime nations to adopt regulations that include the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases to reduce their sector���s emissions. The Getting to Zero Coalition, an alliance of companies, governments and intergovernmental Shutdown talk heats up as Democrats insist on stopping health care cuts 09/15/2025 06:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A deadline looming, Congress charged Monday toward a federal government shutdown as Republicans brush back Democratic demands to save health care funding from cutbacks, while Democrats are flexing a newfound willingness to play hardball, even if it means closing offices and servi The Democratic Party is in fits over Mamdani's bid for NYC mayor. Republicans are loving it 09/15/2025 05:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen stood before Iowa Democrats over the weekend and blasted his party���s leadership as ���spineless��� for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor. ���Many Democratic members of the Senate and the House repre Editorial Roundup: United States 09/15/2025 03:54pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 12 The New York Times says Trump's policies are damaging your health President Trump has turned Make America Healthy Again into one of his administration���s signature promises. It is a laudable goal, too. By several measure Trial begins for 3 accused of stealing $580,000 hidden in couch at South Africa president's farm 09/15/2025 02:41pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Three people went on trial in South Africa on Monday after being charged with housebreaking and stealing $580,000 in U.S. banknotes hidden in a couch at a game farm owned by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The strange case mired Ramaphosa in scandal and almost cost him his job after Federal law enforcement surge presses ahead as DC waits for Congress to restore $1B in local funds 09/15/2025 02:24pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. More National Guard troops are scheduled to arrive this month in D.C. and there are no signs the federal law enforcement surge will end any time soon, as Congress considers n A Greek island has 1,000 private chapels. Families maintain them for faith and community 09/15/2025 01:42am • TINOS, Greece (AP) ��� More than a thousand chapels dot the Greek island of Tinos. In a rare centuries-old tradition, the mostly simple, room-sized stone structures are painstakingly maintained by the ordinary families that own them. These private whitewashed chapels with miniature bell towers belon Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican, dies at 79 09/14/2025 09:44pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79. Edgar died from complications related to his treatment for pancreatic cancer, his Sugar Coke? Department of War? Where some of Trump's most jaw-dropping promises stand 09/14/2025 11:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Given just how much President Donald Trump talks in public, it can sometimes be hard to keep up with all of his promises ��� even his most outlandish ones. Once a pledge has been made, though, the president has a way of making notions that once seemed implausible inch toward appe California to extend cap-and-trade program aimed at advancing state climate goals 09/13/2025 07:17pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California will extend a key climate program under a bill state lawmakers passed Saturday, sending the measure to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has championed it as a crucial tool to respond to the Trump administration���s environmental rollbacks. The Democrat-dominated Legislat Trump calls on all NATO countries to stop buying Russian oil, threatens 50% to 100% tariffs on China 09/13/2025 02:46pm • BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petroleum. Trump posted on his social media site that NATO���S c Millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs unless Congress extends subsidies 09/13/2025 07:20am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� There's bipartisan support in Congress for extending tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic. But the credits are in danger of expiring as Republicans and Democrats clash over how to do it. Democrats are thre Waves of fake threats to colleges are putting students on edge and testing dispatchers 09/13/2025 12:11am • MISSION, Kan. (AP) ��� Around 50 college campuses across the country have been deluged in recent weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, laying bare the challenges of detecting fake threats quickly to prevent mass panic. Students at some schools spent hours hiding under desks,