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By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores drop now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. But there are things you can do to help your score rebound. Courtney Alev, consumer advocate at Credit Karma, said it’s understandable that people have missed payments because of the mixed messages around student loans. “We’re really at a moment of enormous empathy for the consumer,” she said. “But now it’s critical to make a plan.” The U.S. Department of Education paused federal student loan payments…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. “As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and…

For the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers, running in place signified another berth in the Stanley Cup Final and, for Florida, another deep quaff of champagne from that coveted chalice. For the Kings, it meant general manager Rob Blake and the organization parted ways, with veteran and four-time Stanley Cup winner Ken Holland coming aboard to break the Kings’ string of four consecutive first-round exits at the hands of the Oilers. What they’ve done so far The Kings haven’t yet been active on the acquisition front yet, but the man who will be making those trades and signings is no…

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson. “Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died. Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?” “Lift Every Voice and Sing” within 20 years became known as the Negro National Anthem, in our time the Black National Anthem, and millions of us have…

Surging Southern California rent inflation, while national price hikes decline, suggests January’s Los Angeles wildfires may be costing local tenants. My trusty spreadsheet looked at rent costs as tracked by three local Consumer Price Indexes – Los Angeles and Orange counties, the Inland Empire and San Diego County – and compared that to nationwide patterns. The CPI follows rents by surveying tenants to learn what they are paying for all types of housing of varying sizes. Other rent metrics typically track what major landlords are charging tenants for new leases at large apartment complexes. Locally, May’s 5.1% average rent hike…

By SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to tap Chad Meredith, a former state solicitor general in Kentucky, for a federal judgeship in the state — a move that could face objections from Sen. Rand Paul, who opposed the nomination three years ago. Meredith was the starring player in a bit of judicial nominations drama in the previous administration, when then-President Joe Biden had agreed to nominate Meredith, who was enthusiastically supported by Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Senate majority leader. It was a curious move at the time, because Meredith had a…

By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job. “There was finally a sense of calm,’’ said Rebecca Shi, CEO of the American Business Immigration Coalition. That respite didn’t last long. On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin declared, “There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine (immigration enforcement)…

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has a playful message for Lakers fans about Shohei Ohtani, now that the major league baseball and NBA teams will have the same majority owner. “Hands off of Shohei,” he said, smiling. “They got enough superstars wearing the purple and gold. Leave him alone.” Social media on Wednesday was rife with photos of the Japanese two-way superstar’s face and body in a Lakers jersey after news broke that Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter is buying a majority interest in the Lakers from the Buss family for approximately $10 billion. Fox baseball analyst Ben…

A cloud of thick smoke could be seen across San Bernardino on Wednesday, June 18, as firefighters worked to control a fire in a large boarded-up home where one person was found dead. The fire began around 9:50 a.m. on the 1200 block of North Berkeley Avenue, near G Street. Officials have not determined the cause of the fire, which remains under investigation, San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesperson Ryan Beckers said. The house was considered abandoned and was barricaded “quite well,” according to Beckers, with heavy-duty metal screening around much of the building. Fire crews used rotary saws to…

LOS ANGELES — Inserted into the fire immediately, Emmet Sheehan proved to be the calming influence the Dodgers were expecting. He just needed a little help in the form of five innings of relief from Justin Wrobleski and Will Smith’s pinch-hit, walk-off home run in the ninth. Smith, who was given the night off from behind the plate, still managed to make it a full day’s work with one swing while pinch hitting for Kiké Hernandez. Smith’s eighth homer of the season gave the Dodgers a 4-3 victory, their 25th comeback win of the season. Sheehan was dropped into the…