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Leslie Odom Jr., Cypress Hill, Bonnie Raitt headline May entertainment around DC area 05/01/2024 04:47am • To paraphrase Justin Timberlake, "Guess what? It's gonna be May." In fact, it's here! The weather is warming up, so it's time to get out and enjoy some fun activities. We're rounding up fun events around the D.C. area in our May Entertainment Guide: May Entertainment Guide: May 1-5: Phones, Islamic books and currency exchange. Some businesses are making money out of Taliban rule 05/01/2024 04:05am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� Yunis Safi, a businessman in Kabul, knows very well the importance of showing off your phone if you want something done. ���In Afghanistan, your phone is your personality,��� he said, smiling, a jewel-encrusted ring on each hand. One boasts an emerald, the other a fat Rus Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia 04/30/2024 10:47pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia ��� the single largest investment in Microsoft���s 29-year history in the country ��� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday. Microsoft runs Lottery bids for skilled-worker visas plunge in the US after changes aimed at fraud and abuse 04/30/2024 11:40am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year, authorities said Tuesday, claiming success against people who were ���gaming the system��� by submitting multiple, sometimes dubious, applications to unfairly increase chances of being selected. Major tech Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' hits No. 1, with songs claiming the top 14 spots 04/30/2024 09:22am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Taylor Swift continues to dominate in the week following the release of her 11th album, ���The Tortured Poets Department.��� The 31-track album has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, tying Swift with Jay-Z for second-most No. 1 albums at 14. Only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1 album Stock market today: Asian shares mostly rise to start a week full of earnings, Fed meeting 04/29/2024 10:53pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.3% to 38,442.28 in early trading, coming back from a national holiday. Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.3% to 7,658.20. So 8 Best Income ETFs to Buy in 2024 04/29/2024 08:00pm • Investors seeking stable cash flow without much work can turn to income exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. These funds invest in companies with higher-than-average dividend yields and manage the assets for you. These ETFs involve less investor effort than other passive income methods, such as rental in How major US stock indexes fared Monday, 4/29/2024 04/29/2024 04:26pm • Stocks edged higher as Wall Street readies for a week packed with potentially market-moving news. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%. Amazon and Apple will report their latest earnings results this week, along with rou Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 5-11 04/29/2024 09:42am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 5-11: May 5: Actor Michael Murphy is 86. Actor Lance Henriksen (���Millennium,��� ���Aliens���) is 84. Comedian-actor Michael Palin (Monty Python) is 81. Actor John Rhys-Davies (���Lord of the Rings,��� ���Raiders of the Lost Ark���) is 80. Former MTV News cor 10 Best Low-Cost Index Funds to Buy 04/28/2024 08:00pm • Every day presents an uphill battle for stock pickers -- whether they're retail investors or institutional players -- when it comes to outperforming the market. For the latter, folks can look to existing, tangible data that assesses how the average fund fares against its index benchmark ... and so f Best Places to Retire in Texas 04/28/2024 08:00pm • America's second-most populous state is a haven for retirees. Whether you're seeking warmer weather, affordable housing, lower taxes or engaging leisure activities, you will be able to find it somewhere in the state of Texas. Texas is known for its resilience and has a number of vibrant communities The summer after Barbenheimer and the strikes, Hollywood charts a new course 04/26/2024 09:43pm • ��� Barbenheimer ��� is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes, it���s worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: ���Nobody knows anything.��� Four decades later, WTOP's Neal Augenstein: One Passover tradition I'd like to end 04/26/2024 09:40am • It happens every year. On the day of a Passover Seder, I go to the grocery store and choose a big, fresh bunch of parsley since it is one of the symbolic foods displayed on the traditional Seder plate. A few sprigs of curly-leaf parsley go onto the plate, symbolizing the initial flourishin Head of Vietnam's parliament resigns amid corruption probe 04/26/2024 07:56am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� The head of Vietnam���s parliament has resigned, according to state media, making him the latest senior member of government to leave office amid an ongoing anti-corruption campaign that's shaken the country's political and business elites. The resignation of National Assembl 5 cars from the Beijing auto show that reflect China's vision for the future of driving 04/26/2024 06:25am • BEIJING (AP) ��� China's vision of the future of the automobile ��� electrified and digitally connected ��� is on display at the ongoing Beijing auto show. Organizers say that 117 new models are making their debut at Auto China 2024, which runs through May 4. They range from eye-poppingly cutting