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15 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for 2024 03/14/2024 08:00pm • Interest rates have been the overarching factor for dividend investors over the past year. The Federal Reserve's rapid interest rate-hiking campaign led to a dramatic sell-off in many traditional safe-harbor sectors such as consumer staples, utilities and telecom. As inflation has started to subside 7 Best EV Stocks to Buy in 2024 03/14/2024 08:00pm • Electric vehicle sales continue to gain momentum worldwide, increasing by 31% on an annual basis with 13.6 million plug-in hybrids and battery-only EVs sold in 2023, according to market research firm Rho Motion. That's almost 1 out of every 6 cars worldwide, proving that this is not just a niche mar Loud explosion is heard as Somali militant group says its fighters have attacked a hotel in capital 03/14/2024 04:58pm • MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somali extremist group al-Shabab said its fighters have attacked a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, where a loud explosion and gunfire were heard Thursday night. Al-Shabab said on its Telegram channel that its fighters managed to penetrate the SYL Hotel, which is loca New Mexico day care workers' convictions reversed in 2017 death of toddler inside hot car 03/14/2024 03:43pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday granted a new trial for two day care workers in the 2017 death of a 1-year-old girl left in a hot car and the serious injury of another toddler. The high court said in a news release that it reversed the child abuse convictions of Mary Bill to undo Memphis’ traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death headed to governor's desk 03/14/2024 02:26pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Legislation designed to undo police traffic stop reforms set in place after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers last year is now headed to Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's desk, despite emotional pleas to abandon the measure from Nichols' family and accusation See a crash or close call involving a pedestrian? You can now report it using this tool 03/14/2024 01:31pm • A new crash tracker and digital reporting form will enable people involved in, or witness to, a crash or near-miss to share details, in hopes of ensuring safer roads for bicyclists and pedestrians. The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has launched the phone-friendly reporting form "because o 'Freaknik' documentary tells untold story behind the massively popular Atlanta street party 03/14/2024 12:59pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you participated in Atlanta’s wildest gathering called Freaknik back in the day, then beware: You might be featured in Hulu’s new documentary about the legendary street party that became popular through folklore tales involving gridlock traffic, public nudity and highway A Danish hippie oasis has fought drug sales for years. Now, locals want to tear up the whole street 03/14/2024 07:04am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The inhabitants of Copenhagen's freewheeling Christiania neighborhood plan to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police. Residen Stock market today: Asian shares mostly decline after Wall Street drifts to a mixed close 03/14/2024 12:12am • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday in lackluster trading after U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish. Japan's Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% in morning trading to 38,625.22. Nissan Motor Co. stock jumped 2.3% after an unconfirmed Japanese media report that the automaker behind the Leaf elec Naomi Campbell's enduring fashion career will be celebrated with a London museum exhibition 03/13/2024 09:34pm • LONDON (AP) — After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching “NAOMI: In Fashion,” a celebration of Naomi Campbell's enduring career. The exhibition, which opens in June, will showcase memorable design South Dakota prosecutors to seek death penalty for man charged with killing deputy during a pursuit 03/13/2024 08:06pm • FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck while putting out spikes during a police chase. The South Dakota Attorney General’s office filed an official notice Wednesday announcing it will seek Many Basic Money Questions Stump U.S. Adults -- How to Boost Your Financial Literacy 03/13/2024 08:00pm • Understanding core personal finance concepts like cash management, bank accounts, credit, taxes and investing is important. With that knowledge, people can make decisions that benefit their current budget and help with future goal achievement. When they have low financial literacy levels, though, pe Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office 03/13/2024 07:00pm • PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth, pleaded guilty Last suspect sought in deadly bus shooting in Philadelphia, police say 03/13/2024 06:56pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 17-year-old youth who they say is the last of four suspects sought in the shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week. The U.S. Marshals Service, while offering details Tuesday night on th The Latest | Israel wants Rafah civilians to go to Gaza's center ahead of southern offensive 03/13/2024 06:04pm • Israel plans to tell 1.4 million Palestinians displaced in the southern city of Rafah to seek shelter in central Gaza ahead of a planned military offensive into the south. Civilians would be directed toward “humanitarian islands” that would provide temporary housing, food, water and other necess