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Kenya police boss resigns in latest fallout from deadly protests 07/12/2024 01:30pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s police boss resigned Friday, the latest attempt by the country's president to respond to growing concerns of police brutality in response to protests triggered by a proposed tax hike. Protesters stormed parliament on June 25 after a bill was passed that proposed tax Eva Longoria on mastering Castilian Spanish, working with Carmen Maura on 'Land of Women' 07/12/2024 09:48am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eva Longoria is not one to shy away from a challenge. Charting her return to television, Longoria decided it was time to do something new: tackle a dual English-Spanish role. “‘If I’m going to return to TV, I want it to be different, and I want to be challenged, and I want To Buy or Not to Buy: The Real Deal on Mortgage Points 07/11/2024 08:00pm • Mortgage lenders offer multiple pricing options for home loans. You can choose to pay more points upfront in exchange for a lower interest rate and payment, or you can pay less upfront and accept a higher interest rate. In general, the more you pay upfront, the lower your interest rate and payment. Marathon Oil reaches $241 million settlement with EPA for environmental violations in North Dakota 07/11/2024 05:57pm • The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice said the settle Editorial Roundup: United States 07/11/2024 05:21pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 6 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and how government works The Supreme Court’s 2024 term might have been defined, to the general public at least, by multiple decisions concerning Donald Trump. These cases matter. But the bigger pi Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the 'written word' 07/11/2024 04:51pm • GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot. Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes Kenyan president dismisses Cabinet ministers after weeks of protests over taxation, poor governance 07/11/2024 10:41am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday dismissed almost all of his Cabinet ministers and promised to form a new government that will be lean and efficient following weeks of protests over high taxes and poor governance. In a televised address, the president also dismissed UK water firms get smaller rate hikes than sought amid struggle to cut pollution, attract investors 07/11/2024 05:38am • LONDON (AP) — British regulators on Thursday slashed proposed rate increases by water companies, crimping revenue at a time they are struggling to persuade investors to finance efforts to reduce sewage spills that have fouled waterways around the country. Under the draft decision by regulator Ofwa IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers 07/11/2024 05:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS announced Thursday that it has collected $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth tax cheats — a milestone meant to showcase how the agency is making use of the money it received as part of the Biden administration's signature climate, health care, and tax package sign Mexico will build passenger train lines to US border in an expansion of its debt-laden rail projects 07/10/2024 08:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s massive, debt-fueled passenger rail building program is not going to end with the administration of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but will instead double, he said Wednesday. López Obrador said his successor, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, is p 10 ETFs to Build a Diversified Portfolio 07/10/2024 08:00pm • One of the key principles guiding portfolio managers today is that different asset classes have historically behaved in consistent ways depending on the economic cycle. For instance, stocks tend to do well during periods of economic expansion and low interest rates. On the other hand, during major r Joint Checking Accounts: Here's When You Should (and Shouldn't) Get One 07/10/2024 08:00pm • One of the most fundamental decisions a couple faces is whether to treat money as a joint asset or something to be managed separately. Traditionally, married couples have been expected to keep their money in a joint checking account, and many finance professionals tout this arrangement as engenderin Federal judge orders mediation to break impasse over Puerto Rico power company debt 07/10/2024 06:03pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal judge overseeing a drawn-out debt-restructuring process for Puerto Rico’s power company ordered all parties to mediation on Wednesday in the latest attempt to break an impasse that has sparked widespread indignation. The U.S. territory’s Electric Power Au Ex-NBA player Jontay Porter pleads guilty in case tied to gambling scandal that tanked his career 07/10/2024 05:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former NBA player Jontay Porter admitted Wednesday that he schemed to take himself out of games for gambling's sake, pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy crime in the scandal that already got him banned from the league. “I know what I did was wrong, unlawful, and I am deeply s Judge says Rudy Giuliani bankruptcy case likely to be dismissed. But his debts aren't going away 07/10/2024 03:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A judge said Wednesday he was leaning toward throwing out Rudy Giuliani 's bankruptcy case after lawyers for the cash-strapped former New York City mayor and his biggest creditors — two ex-Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him — agreed