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Tiger Woods gets special exemption to US Open at Pinehurst 05/02/2024 01:53pm • Tiger Woods accepted a special exemption for the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, the first time the three-time champion has needed an exemption to play. Woods has been exempt for every U.S. Open since he first played in 1995 as the reigning U.S. Amateur champion. His five-year exemption from winning t Companies shift profits into record dividends, but show more caution on stock buybacks 05/02/2024 08:10am • NEW YORK (AP) — Companies continued rewarding investors with healthy dividends in 2023 even as they tread more cautiously with returning profits through stock buybacks. Dividends hit a record $1.66 trillion globally last year, while stock buybacks eased. Investors can likely expect more dividend g Death toll jumps to 48 in southern China highway collapse that sent 23 cars down a steep slope 05/02/2024 04:09am • BEIJING (AP) — Death toll jumps to 48 in southern China highway collapse that sent 23 cars down a steep slope. Drone footage shows devastation in Ukraine's strategic eastern city of Chasiv Yar as Russians near 05/02/2024 03:27am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Months of relentless Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, new drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows, with barely a building left intact, homes and municipal offices charred and a town that once had a population of 12,00 A highway collapse in China kills 36 people and sends more than 20 cars down a steep slope 05/02/2024 12:23am • BEIJING (AP) — A section of a highway collapsed after heavy rains in a mountainous area in southern China, sending cars tumbling down a slope and leaving at least 36 people dead, authorities said Thursday. The Meizhou city government said that 23 vehicles have been found after a 17.9-meter (58.7-f Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says 05/01/2024 11:16pm • MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown EAH Programs: How an Employer Can Help You Buy a Home 05/01/2024 08:00pm • In a climate where housing has become less affordable and companies are having trouble getting in-person talent, organizations that help employees pay for their homes might have a competitive edge. That's the idea behind employer-assisted housing programs and other home-cost-related benefits that so Want to spend the night in a Paris museum or a house owned by Prince? Airbnb plans to list them 05/01/2024 07:58pm • In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings, or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars. Those and other chimerical listings are part of a splashy new campa DC speed cameras at these locations issued 10,000-plus tickets over three months 05/01/2024 06:55pm • D.C.'s busiest speed camera in the last three months of 2023 was also one of its newest, according to Department of Transportation data shared with the D.C. Council. From Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, the speed camera located along the northbound Potomac Freeway at 25th Street in Northwest issued 3 A list of mass killings in the United States this year 05/01/2024 06:26pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Monday, April 29, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where four officers were fatally shot in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The officers were killed when a task force made up of officers from different agencies arrived in the reside Remains of child found in duffel bag in Philadelphia neighborhood identified as missing boy 05/01/2024 05:24pm • A decomposed body found earlier this year in a duffel bag in Philadelphia has been identified as a 4-year-old boy who authorities say was beaten to death. The body of Damari Carter was found March 18 in the city’s Mantua neighborhood by a worker who was cleaning out an alleyway. Authorities initia Mister Car Wash: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2024 05:17pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Mister Car Wash Inc. (MCW) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $16.6 million. On a per-share basis, the Tucson, Arizona-based company said it had profit of 5 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and to extinguish debt, were 8 Biden to travel to North Carolina to meet with families of officers killed in deadly shooting 05/01/2024 04:58pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The president is scheduled to visit Wilmington across the state that Avis Budget: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2024 04:33pm • PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — Avis Budget Group Inc. (CAR) on Wednesday reported a first-quarter loss of $114 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Parsippany, New Jersey-based company said it had a loss of $3.21 per share. The results did not Police, family of slain Hyattsville nightclub security guard plead for help 05/01/2024 03:24pm • Police and family members in Prince George's County, Maryland, pleaded for help Wednesday as they continue to search for a motive and suspects in a March 2023 shooting outside a Hyattsville nightclub that left a man dead. Alex Lynch, 28, was a security guard at the Area Code Gentlemen's Club alon