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How this 28-year-old accountant paid off his $73K student loan debt in less than 4 years
A 28-year-old accountant from North Carolina is debt free after paying off all his student loans in less than four years. Logan Marston, who lives in Durham, told ABC News that he settled 10 loans that totaled $73,372. In May 2012, he received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from James Madison University and completed his master’s degree in accounting from the university a year later. When it was time to pay off his loans, Marston admitted that even he was surprised at the high amount of debt he owed. “I Read More
California to file lawsuit over Trump border wall
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s attorney general plans to file a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging President Donald Trump’s plan to construct a wall along the border with Mexico, the state AG’s office said, adding to the obstacles facing a key Trump campaign promise. Trump has insisted Mexico would pay for building the wall, which experts said could cost about $22 billion and take more than three years to complete. With Mexico refusing to pay, Trump has said since taking office in January that the wall will initially need U.S. funding
Read MoreAt U.N., Trump warns U.S. may have to totally destroy North Korea
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear standoff, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission. Loud murmurs filled the green-marbled U.N. General Assembly hall when Trump issued his sternest warning yet to North Korea, whose ballistic missile launches and nuclear tests have rattled the globe. Unless North Korea backs down, he said, “We will have no choice than to
Read MoreFTC demands endorsement info from Instagram ‘influencers’
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. truth-in-advertising enforcers have sent letters to supermodel Naomi Campbell, actresses Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Hudgens and other celebrities asking whether they have paid deals to endorse products on the photo-sharing app Instagram. The letters sent by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to 21 people with large Instagram followings represent an escalation of the agency’s interest in so-called social media “influencers.” Instagram, which is owned by Facebook Inc, has seen a sharp increase in recent years in promotions of products and services by famous people, often Read More
Motorcycling: Dutch rider van der Mark replaces Rossi for Aragon
LONDON (Reuters) – Dutch superbike rider Michael van der Mark will replace injured Italian great Valentino Rossi for the Aragon round of the MotoGP world championship in Spain on Sept. 24, Yamaha said on Monday. Rossi broke his leg in a training accident on an off-road bike at the end of August and missed the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano in eastern Italy at the weekend. Yamaha did not replace the 38-year-old nine times world champion for that race. “Rossi is making good progress with his rehabilitation process. However, Read More
Trump has ‘great concern’ about Irma as storm bears down: Pence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the full resources of the federal government to help Florida and other states hit by Hurricane Irma and has “great concern” about the storm as it batters the Florida coast, his vice president said on Sunday. “Clearly the briefing that we received at Camp David this morning caused the president to have great concern for the impact of this storm moving up the west coast and the potential through heavy winds and storm surge to compromise cities and compromise lives,” Vice Read More
Global markets calm ahead of Jackson Hole meeting
Global stock markets edged lower Wednesday as investors treaded carefully ahead of an annual gathering of central bankers. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 0.1 percent at 7,374 while Germany’s DAX fell 0.3 percent to 12,192. The CAC 40 in France was 0.2 percent lower at 5,122. U.S. stocks were poised for a soft opening with Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 futures down 0.3 percent. CENTRAL BANKERS: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi are
Read MorePhilippines deploys troops to a second province to fight bird flu
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines has deployed more troops to cull thousands of chickens one day after the farm ministry confirmed the spread of bird flu into a second province north of the capital, Manila. More than 100 soldiers were sent on Saturday to the towns of Jaen and San Isidro in Nueva Ecija province after two cases of avian flu were detected in quails, army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Isagani Nato said in a statement. The new bird flu cases were about 50 km (30 miles) from the initial outbreak in
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