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Jill Bates is a writer on the Modernist Podcast. She writes politics, health, business and finance. She also has a passion for photography, travel and food.

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Trump's acting CFPB chief halts all supervision of companies

By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) -Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s newly installed head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instructed staff on Saturday evening to suspend all activities including the supervision of companies overseen by the agency, escalating the new administration’s efforts to neutralize the government watchdog, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Vought

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UN humanitarian chief says Gaza ceasefire has averted famine but any truce collapse brings danger

CAIRO (AP) — Famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, the United Nations humanitarian chief said Sunday. But he warned the threat could return quickly if the truce collapses. Tom Fletcher spoke exclusively to The Associated Press after a two-day visit to Gaza,

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Former minimum-wage worker retired at 39 with $3.5M nest egg — now he’s an expat in Dubai living on $185K/year

This former minimum-wage worker retired at 39 with a $3.5M nest egg — now he’s an American expat living on $185K/year in Dubai. Here’s how he achieved freedom so early (and how you can too) Jamal Robinson didn’t come from money. He started nearly at the bottom, working as a church janitor at 14 before

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Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties

VILNIUS (Reuters) – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said on Sunday they had successfully synchronised their electricity systems to the European continental power grid, one day after severing decades-old energy ties to Russia and Belarus. Planned for many years, the complex switch away from the grid of their former Soviet imperial overlord is designed to integrate

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This Wisconsin man with autism was 'devastated' after Social Security told him to pay back $35K. Is the system broken?

Like many Americans with disabilities, 32-year-old Max Silber of Wisconsin regularly receives Social Security Income (SSI) benefits because of his autism. That is, until recently when he was unexpectedly notified they would stop. What’s more, he was instructed to repay $35,000 due to an overpayment “error” dating back to May 2022. Max’s father, Jeff, has

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Egypt to host Arab crisis meeting amid uproar over Trump's Gaza plan

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways Egypt said on Sunday it would host an emergency Arab summit later this month, after US President Donald Trump floated a plan to takeover

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New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’

The disclosure that dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, has put virologists and researchers on high alert. Among other things, the news from the Nevada Department of Agriculture, suggests that driving the virus out of the U.S. cattle population won’t be

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