A September 2023 Consumer Reports study estimated that 1 in 5 American adults, or about 52 million people, paid a credit card late fee in the previous year. People with lower incomes pay proportionately bigger fees, according to the CFPB, with the highest burden falling on communities of color and those living paycheck to paycheck.
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Alexander’s release created a backlash against Netanyahu, who critics accuse of putting the lives of the hostages in danger by continuing the war. Netanyahu says he is committed to returning all the hostages, destroying Hamas and resettling much of Gaza’s population through what he refers to as “voluntary emigration.”
During a nearly two-hour meeting in Tel Aviv with the families of hostages on Tuesday, the United States’ special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, and Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s envoy for hostage affairs, said they would do what was needed to bring the remaining hostages home.Witkoff said everyone would prefer a diplomatic solution and that most hostages had been released through diplomacy. The officials headed to Doha, Qatar, after their meeting to join Trump. Qatar has been a key mediator between Israel and Hamas.Palestinians inspect the damage at a U.N. school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit by Israeli military strikes, killing more than 15 people, in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians inspect the damage at a U.N. school used as a shelter by displaced residents that was hit by Israeli military strikes, killing more than 15 people, in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Witkoff said they wouldn’t be traveling to Qatar if they didn’t think there was a genuine chance for progress in negotiations.
Alexander’s parents said in a statement on Tuesday that their son described enduring a harsh captivity that included hunger, lack of water, and “appalling sanitary conditions.”
His mother, Yael, said he feared for his life every day, “but the most terrible sound that Edan feared was the sound of the war going on above their heads. Deafening explosions, the whistles of missiles, the sounds of collapse, collapse, and the earth shaking.”in February 2020 of four counts of capital murder, four counts of murder, two counts of kidnapping, one count of attempted murder and one count of armed robbery.
A jury sentenced Godbolt to death for each of the capital murders. For the other convictions, Godbolt was sentenced to six life sentences and two 20-year terms.Godbolt, now 42, is on
at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his convictions and death sentences in March 2024.