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US Credit Card Debt Hits Record $1.26 Trillion as Delinquencies Rise

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- carrying more credit card debt than at any point in recorded history and paying the highest interest rates in a generation to sustain it. The New York Federal Reserve reported T... Read More


Peggy Flanagan Wins Minnesota Democratic Senate Primary, Defeating AIPAC-Linked Rival

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 12 -- The crowd at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis was still swelling past midnight when Peggy Flanagan stepped onto the same stage where Bob Dylan played his first concert and ... Read More


Trapped in Eswatini: The Men Trump Deported to a Country They Had Never Heard of

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- MBABANE - The man described in The New York Times on Wednesday had never heard of Eswatini before the United States sent him there. He does not speak Swazi or Zulu, the country's... Read More


NYC Council Probes Polymarket and Kalshi Over Fake Trade Videos and Predatory Ads

The probe, Aug. 12 -- a trader flips a small bet into thousands on Polymarket, the screen showing what appears to be real winnings in real time. New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin said Wednesda... Read More


Trump Needed a Catering Truck Ruse to Exit Turkey as Iran Threatened His Plane

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- ANKARA - The aircraft carrying America's Secretary of State, its Treasury Secretary and a senior White House adviser lifted off from Ankara Esenboga Airport on Monday evening und... Read More


Judge Orders Epstein Victim Files Unsealed, Overriding Maxwell's Last Legal Defense

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- NEW YORK - A federal judge in Manhattan ordered the release of Epstein victim files Tuesday, clearing thousands of pages of records from Virginia Giuffre's decade-old civil lawsu... Read More


Zhu Rongji, China's Economic Premier Who Led WTO Entry, Dies at 97

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- far too large and too deeply woven into global commerce for anyone to easily contain. Zhu Rongji, China's premier from 1998 to 2003, died in Beijing on August 12, Reuters and th... Read More


44 Dead as Overcrowded Zimbabwe Ferry Capsizes on Lake Kariba

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- HARARE - When the ferry Mbuya Nehanda slipped beneath the surface of Lake Kariba on Monday evening, it took with it the sister and at least fifteen relatives of a Zimbabwean memb... Read More


Iran's Supreme Leader Meets With President in 1st Appearance Since Conflict Began

TEHRAN, Aug. 12 -- For five months after U.S. and Israeli strikes hit Tehran and upended Iran's succession, Mojtaba Khamenei ran the country from somewhere that wasn't on television. On Sunday, he app... Read More


Trump Administration Bars Federal Medicaid Funding for Transgender Youth Care

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- WASHINGTON - For thousands of transgender children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, a deadline is approaching. The Trump administration finalized... Read More