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They're cute, cuddly and coming to America: China's newest panda diplomats headed for Washington 10/14/2024 11:52am • Dujiangyan, China (CNN) ��� Two giant pandas are on their way from China to Washington's National Zoo, kicking off a much-awaited return of the beloved bears to the American capital. Bao Li and Qing Bao, both three years old, left the giant panda research base in Dujiangyan, a city near the bears Eggnog before Thanksgiving? Shoppers eager for a new season scramble retail calendars 10/13/2024 07:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� After sipping pumpkin spiced lattes in August and putting up Halloween decorations in late September, Samantha Kowalczyk already looks forward to drinking eggnog-flavored coffee and filling her Wilmington, Delaware, home with cinnamon and sugar cookie scented candles and other holi Music Review: Charli XCX���s 'Brat and it���s completely different but also still brat' remixes, ranked 10/12/2024 10:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� This is the way Brat Summer ends, not with a bang, but a Twitch livestream. On Thursday afternoon, hours after her deluxe, remixed, double-album version of her culture-shifting album ���Brat��� leaked ��� this one called ���Brat and it���s completely different but also still brat�� All aboard! Mets and Yankees only 2 stops away from first Subway Series in 24 years 10/11/2024 11:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two stops away from a Subway Series. When the New York Yankees advanced to the American League Championship Series on Thursday night, that put both Big Apple teams in baseball's final four for the first time in 24 years. Francisco Lindor and the New York Mets had already punched th Monumental Sports adds Spanish-speaking broadcasts for 10 Wizards, Caps games 10/11/2024 05:08pm • Spanish-speaking Washington Wizards and Capitals fans will now have the opportunity to watch games in their own language. Monumental Sports will broadcast 10 regular-season games, five for the Capitals and five Wizards matches, in Spanish as alternative broadcasts outside of its normal English co One Tech Tip: Here's what you need to do before and after your phone is stolen or lost 10/11/2024 06:11am • LONDON (AP) ��� Phones hold so much of our digital lives ��� emails, social media and bank accounts, photos, chat messages and more ��� that if they ever get stolen or go missing, it can cause major disruption beyond just the loss of a device. In some places, phone thefts have surged so much it's n 8 Best Stocks to Buy Now With $1,000 10/10/2024 08:00pm • If you have an extra $1,000 sitting in a savings or checking account, one of the best ways to earn a return on that money is to invest in the stock market. If you're new to investing, buying a low-cost, diversified S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ETF), such as the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ticke Hurricane Milton���s winds topple crane that was building west Florida���s tallest residential tower 10/10/2024 04:49pm • The mayor in St. Petersburg, Florida, warned residents that cranes at several construction projects across the city might fall in Hurricane Milton and at the storm's peak on Wednesday night, one came crashing down. No one was injured when the crane working on a 46-story condominium and office buildi Hong Kong court rejects activist Jimmy Lai's bid to have a jury trial for libel case 10/10/2024 05:33am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A Hong Kong court rejected jailed publisher Jimmy Lai ���s request to have a jury trial for his libel case against a pro-Beijing newspaper Thursday, the latest setback for the activist who suffered multiple blows in other legal battles. Lai, the founder of the now-defunct Apple D What's the Best Covered Call Strategy for Income? 10/09/2024 08:00pm • For investors hoping to juice up the income from their stock holdings or preserve capital, covered calls could be an effective and relatively low-risk way to accomplish those goals. In its most basic terms, a covered call is an options strategy where investors sell a contract to buy shares they alre When Will Housing Prices Drop? 10/09/2024 08:00pm • For just about any homeowner, talk of falling housing prices can spark panic. For most people, their home is their single biggest investment and there's a natural anxiety that comes with any potential threat to that investment. On a national scale, housing market activity has shown a very small gain The 7 Best Fidelity Mutual Funds to Buy and Hold 10/09/2024 08:00pm • If you're a buy-and-hold investor, Fidelity's fund screening tools can help alleviate analysis paralysis by simplifying the process of sifting through 317 different funds. You might be tempted to filter by the top performing Fidelity funds over the past decade to bank on their continued success. Thi Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records after Shanghai's worst drop since early COVID 10/09/2024 05:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. stocks set records Wednesday after the latest wild swerves for Chinese stocks left few ripples in markets worldwide. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% to top the all-time high it had set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 431 points, or 1%, to hit its own record, wh How to stay in touch with loved ones in Florida, even if Milton knocks out cell service 10/09/2024 03:28pm • With the likelihood of cellphone and internet service being severely disrupted by Hurricane Milton, you and people you know in Milton's path can take some simple steps now to stay in touch over the next several days. If cellphone service and internet service goes down, and you no longer have a la US considers asking court to break up Google as it weighs remedies in the antitrust case 10/09/2024 09:23am • The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to break up Google after its ubiquitous search engine was declared an illegal monopoly, but it is just one of many possible remedies under review, according to a court filing. In court papers filed late Tuesday, government lawye