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Apple's biggest announcements from its iPad event: brighter screen, faster processors and new sizes 05/07/2024 01:00pm • CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) ��� Apple on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of iPad Pros and Airs ��� models that will boast faster processors, new sizes and a new display system as part of the company's first update to its tablet lineup in more than a year. The showcase at Apple���s headquarters in Cu How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat 05/07/2024 12:36pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged Second tornado in 5 weeks damages Oklahoma town and causes 1 death as powerful storms hit central US 05/07/2024 11:53am • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� A tornado destroyed homes, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and toppled trees and power lines when it roared through a small Oklahoma town, one of several twisters that erupted in the central United States amid a series of powerful storms that stretched into Tuesday. At Stock market today: Asian shares mostly higher, though China benchmarks falter 05/07/2024 12:41am • Asian markets were mostly higher Tuesday after another day of gains on Wall Street, although Chinese shares faltered. U.S. futures and oil prices edged higher. Tokyo's Nikkei 225, reopening after a national holiday, jumped 1.5% to 38,784.91 and the Kospi in South Korea surged 1.9% to 2,728.05. Ho Why voters in southern India are more resistant to Modi's Hindu-centric politics 05/07/2024 12:05am • CHENNAI, India (AP) ��� Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wielded near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country���s wealthier southern region. Five states across southern India account for roughly 20% of the count Tornadoes spotted in Oklahoma as hail pelts Kansas. Forecasts warn more is to come 05/06/2024 11:00pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Tornadoes touched down Monday evening in rural Oklahoma and large hail pelted parts of Kansas as an outbreak of dangerous storms brought the possibility of strong twisters staying on the ground for many miles. Forecasters have issued a rare high-risk weather warning for the tw Apple Hospitality REIT: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/06/2024 05:17pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Apple Hospitality REIT Inc. (APLE) on Monday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations. The real estate investment trust, based in Richmond, Virginia, said it had funds from operations of $ 10 Ways to Celebrate Mom Without Breaking the Bank 05/05/2024 08:00pm • Mother's Day is big business in the United States. The National Retail Federation predicts that 84% of U.S. adults plan to take part in the holiday in 2024, with an average per participant spend of $254. If such a figure is outside your means but you still want to honor your mom in a special way, pl 7 Best Vanguard Funds to Buy and Hold 05/05/2024 08:00pm • With zero-commission brokerages, continuous coverage of trendy stocks like Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA) and the extreme fluctuations of meme stocks like GameStop Corp. (GME), it's easy to overlook the benefits of a buy-and-hold strategy. However, the approach of accumulating wealth slowly over time is Berkshire Hathaway event gives good view of Warren Buffett's successor but also raises new questions 05/05/2024 05:50pm • This year's Berkshire Hathaway meeting gave shareholders their best chance yet to hear from the man who will one day take over as CEO when Warren Buffett is gone, but Buffett said for the first time Saturday that Greg Abel should also take responsibility for the company's investments after he takes Warren Buffett says AI may be better for scammers than society. And he's seen how 05/05/2024 04:32am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Warren Buffett cautioned the tens of thousands of shareholders who packed an arena for his annual meeting that artificial intelligence scams could become "the growth industry of all time." Doubling down on his cautionary words from last year, Buffett told the throngs he recently Berkshire's profit plunges 64% on portfolio holdings as Buffett sells Apple 05/04/2024 03:03pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Berkshire Hathaway's first quarter profits plummeted along with the paper value of its investments, but the company said Saturday that most of the businesses it owns outright performed well. The company reported reported a $12.7 billion profit, or $8.825 per Class A share, in th Doug Liman, Matt Damon and the Afflecks made a heist comedy for Apple. 'The Instigators' 05/04/2024 01:50am • Filmmaker Doug Liman realized quickly he wasn't on his home turf anymore. Matt Damon, who he���d directed in ���The Bourne Identity��� over 20 years ago, had recruited Liman for his new movie ���The Instigators,��� an action-comedy about a heist gone wrong. Though two decades of friendship is nothin Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly 05/03/2024 07:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit. Google, on the other hand, Bomb kills at least 12 people, including children, at two displacement camps in eastern Congo 05/03/2024 07:23pm • GOMA, Congo (AP) ��� Attacks on two camps for displaced people in eastern Congo's North Kivu province on Friday killed at least 12 people, including children, according to local officials, an aid group and the United Nations. The U.N. said in a statement that bombs hit two camps for displaced peopl