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The benefits of a four-day workweek according to a champion of the trend 09/23/2024 03:41pm • Companies exploring the option of letting employees work four days a week hope to reduce job burnout and retain talent seeking a better work-life balance, according to the chief executive of an organization that promotes the idea. The trend is gaining traction in Australia and Europe, says Dale Whel The Fed sees its inflation fight as a success. Will the public eventually agree? 09/23/2024 03:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it's all but conquered inflation after three long years. The public at large? Not so much. Consumer surveys, including one released Friday by The Associat DP World Tour Schedule 09/23/2024 03:01pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen Biden administration seeks to ban Chinese, Russian tech in US autonomous vehicles 09/23/2024 01:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Commerce Department said Monday it's seeking a ban on the sale of connected and autonomous vehicles in the U.S. that are equipped with Chinese and Russian software and hardware with the stated goal of protecting national security and U.S. drivers. While there is minimal Chines Jazz saxophonist and composer Benny Golson dies at 95 09/23/2024 01:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as ���Killer Joe��� and ���Along Came Betty," has died. He was 95. Golson died Saturday at his home in Manhattan after a short illness, said Golson���s longtime agent, Jason Franklin. Over his seven-decade Before you sign up for a store credit card, know what you're getting into 09/23/2024 11:19am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When Mykail James was 19 and working a holiday job at Victoria's Secret, she took out a store credit card with a $2,000 credit line. When her school break was over, she realized she could no longer afford the payments. After missing a few, she paid off the card only to find that h IndyCar finalizes charter system that doesn't guarantee spots in Indianapolis 500 09/23/2024 10:03am • IndyCar on Monday finalized a charter system for 25 entrants that, while it pales in comparison to the contentious deal reached between NASCAR and its teams over their revenue sharing model, does give 10 open wheel organizations some guarantees. The initial agreement runs through the 2031 season and A list of mass killings in the United States this year 09/23/2024 09:53am • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama, where four people were killed and more than a dozen injured outside a nightspot in what police described as a targeted ���hit��� by multiple shooters. It was the country���s 31st mass killing this year, according to a data A vandal's rampage at a Maine car dealership causes thousands in damage to 75 vehicles 09/23/2024 09:19am • AUBURN, Maine (AP) ��� A Maine man damaged 75 vehicles at an automobile dealership, smashing windows and denting hoods of vehicles before he was arrested, police said. The 25-year-old man from Auburn was charged with aggravated criminal mischief early Sunday, police said. They did not cite the man' When House members travel the globe on private dime, families often go too 09/23/2024 09:00am • They are the U.S. House���s frequent fliers ��� representatives who have traveled the country and the world on official business paid for by private interest groups. Over the past decade, they have accepted nearly $4.3 million for airfare, lodging, meals and other travel expenses. Almost one-third o The cost of Germany's popular transport ticket will rise significantly 09/23/2024 07:02am • BERLIN (AP) ��� The cost of a popular ticket introduced last year that allows people to use all local and regional trains, buses and subway systems across Germany is set to increase by about 18% next year, a senior official said Monday. Transport ministers from Germany's 16 states agreed that the pr Christine Bumstead once took Panthers coach Paul Maurice hunting. And her coaching career took off 09/23/2024 05:50am • SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) ��� Christine Bumstead���s path toward being an assistant coach in a preseason game for the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers started in a most unusual way. She went deer hunting. Her journey took off when hockey ��� and the rest of the world ��� had stopped in 2020 b Pakistani Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors 09/23/2024 05:49am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the restive northwest, as authorities said they were still trying to determine who was behind it. Most of the ambassadors and senior envoys were tra Car Review: 2025 Audi SQ8 offers supercar performance and luxury in a five-seat configuration 09/23/2024 04:37am • By Brian Armstead The roads surrounding Park City, Utah, were perfect test bed to evaluate the 2025 Audi SQ8. With such perfect roads in Utah, I had no choice but to utilize as much of the SQ8���s 500-horsepower V8 as my skill set allowed. The SQ8 didn���t disappoint, as the power, coupled with the Death toll after explosion at eastern Iran coal mine rises to at least 38 with 14 still missing 09/23/2024 03:54am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 38, officials said. Another 14 miners are still believed to be trapped below ground. The blast struck the coal mine