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• 10 days ago
You might think you know a lot about credit and banking, taxes and insurance. Four teenagers from Scripps Ranch High School probably know more. A four-student team from the San Diego school won the 2025 National Personal Finance Challenge, a financial literacy contest that ended in June in Atlanta. If you feel like testing your own financial literacy, take our 10-question quiz (bit.ly/47ftuTN). It’s an abbreviated version of the contest’s final round. First up: What is the term given to the amount in an account that is separate from any earnings or interest that has accrued?
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• 2 weeks ago
Sharon Osbourne was emotional as she held the hands of her children during her late husband Ozzy Osbourne's funeral procession in Birmingham, England. Hundreds of the Black Sabbath frontman's supporters filled the streets to pay their respects to Osbourne.
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A federal judge blocked enforcement of a provision in President Donald Trump's recently enacted tax and spending bill that would deprive Planned Parenthood and its members of Medicaid funding, saying it is likely unconstitutional. That provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by the Republican-led Congress denied certain tax-exempt organizations and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid funds if they continue to provide abortions. The U.S. Department of Justice argued that "the bill stops federal subsidies for Big Abortion" and urged Talwani not to let Planned Parenthood and its members "supplant duly enacted legislation with their own policy preferences." Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the law's text and structure made clear that it was crafted to cover every member of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the parent organization, even if they were not named.
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• 2 weeks ago
WWE icon Hulk Hogan has died at the age of 71, according to multiple reports. Hogan was influential in the rise of wrestling worldwide and was WWE's first major star. He was a six-time WWE Champion and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame twice, once in 2005 and in 2020 as part of the New World Order.
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he fight is over: Republicans’ sweeping bill to cut taxes and slash benefit programs like Medicaid has passed out of Congress and is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law − possibly on July 4. The 218-214 House vote came after a full day of negotiations July 2, an overnight debate and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, delivering the longest House speech on record. Trump met at the White House with skeptical GOP lawmakers, worked the phones and cheered the members on during votes on social media. It’s a major victory for Trump and Republican leadership in Congress.
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🎂 Giant panda Xin Xin celebrated its 35th birthday at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. Though Xin Xin's grandparents, Ying Ying and Pe Pe, were pandas gifted to Mexico by China in 1975, Xin Xin is Mexico-born and also one of the few pandas in the world that doesn't belong to China. 📸: Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters
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