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Russia's 160-year war on Ukrainian books

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history", said the historian Milan Hubl in Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. To destroy a man, first destroy his culture: this idea is neither new nor particularly singular.

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Oil prices keep rising and weigh on Wall Street

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are drifting lower Tuesday in their return to trading from a three-day weekend after the latest fighting in the war with Iran pushed oil prices higher. The S&P 500 fell 0.4 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 575 points, or 1.1 percent, as of noon Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.1 percent…

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Can you negotiate a lower minimum credit card payment?

Your minimum payment may be getting harder to cover, but you could have options to make it more manageable.

  • Credit card debt reached $1.26 trillion in Q2 2026.
  • Minimum payments can be difficult due to high interest rates.
  • Hardship programs may reduce monthly payments temporarily.
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