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5 tips to tackle a home remodel in an uncertain economy 05/17/2023 09:01am • Spring is kickoff season for many kitchen remodels, bathroom updates and deck repairs, but recent economic turmoil may have homeowners questioning their home improvement plans. Spending on home renovations is expected to slow this year because of factors such as declining home sales and values, risi South Korean, Canadian leaders vow cooperation on clean energy, North Korea threat 05/17/2023 07:58am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea and Canada on Wednesday vowed to strengthen their security and economic cooperation to address challenges posed by North Korea and expand Canadian supplies of minerals crucial to South Korea’s technology industry as they held a summit in Seoul Musk says he's not stepping down as Tesla CEO, tells shareholders the company will advertise 05/17/2023 06:57am • Elon Musk on Tuesday dismissed speculation that he might step down as Tesla's CEO and told the company’s annual shareholders meeting that the electric car and solar panel company would start doing some advertising. “Say it ain’t so,” one shareholder asked Musk about stepping down as Tesla's Why Hyundai and Kia have everyone else playing catch-up 05/17/2023 06:42am • In the past few years, Hyundai and Kia vehicles have skyrocketed to the top of Edmunds’ rankings in some of the most popular vehicle segments. For example, you’ll find a Hyundai or Kia in the top spots for three-row midsize SUVs, midsize sedans, and multiple categories of electric vehicles. This New Mexico high school student killed 3 women in 'random' shooting rampage, police say 05/16/2023 11:21pm • FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others as he fired randomly while roaming his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood was a local high school student and his victims include a 97-year-old woman and her daughter, police said Tuesday. Investigators were sti 'Evil is not going to win,' survivor of Texas mall shooting says 05/16/2023 09:00pm • McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Irvin Walker was looking for a parking place after dropping his girlfriend off at a Dallas-area mall just over a week ago when he felt the gunfire. The 46-year-old from Lafayette, Louisiana, who was hit with bullet fragments in his head, chest, neck and arm, spoke Tuesday at Surging Alaska rivers leave behind huge chunks of ice, damaged homes 05/16/2023 08:07pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ice jams that blocked two Alaska rivers broke loose over the weekend, unleashing a surge of ice and water that caused major floods, damaged homes and left behind huge chunks of ice as tall as 12 feet (3.7 meters). Floodwaters on the Yukon River peaked at or near record lev How to Automate Your Savings -- And Why It's a Good Idea 05/16/2023 08:00pm • Are you struggling to prioritize saving? Having trouble building your emergency fund? If so, you aren't alone. Despite experts recommending you save up to 20% of your income each month, most Americans have a median savings of only $3,240 to $6,400, depending on age. Automation can help: By setting a Canadian killed in southern Mexico, 2nd tourist slain in Oaxaca in less than a week 05/16/2023 07:53pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Canadian man was shot to death in Mexico’s Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido, prosecutors said Tuesday. He was the second foreign tourist killed in the southern state of Oaxaca in less than a week. Oaxaca state prosecutors said Tuesday the Canadian man was found Biden speaks out against 'antisemitic bile' during Jewish American Heritage Month celebration 05/16/2023 07:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Jewish American Heritage Month on Tuesday by highlighting his administration's efforts to combat rising antisemitism, at a White House reception that featured performances from the stars of the Broadway revival of “Parade.” Biden told the crowd it Minnesota man accused of building arsenal to fight police pleads guilty to possessing machine gun 05/16/2023 06:40pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who told an FBI informant that he was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police and admired mass shooters pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally possessing a machine gun. River Smith, 21, of the Minneapolis suburb of Savage, entered his plea on US announces criminal cases involving flow of technology, information to Russia, China and Iran 05/16/2023 05:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced a series of criminal cases Tuesday tracing the illegal flow of sensitive technology, including Apple's software code for self-driving cars and materials used for missiles, to foreign adversaries like Russia, China and Iran. Some of the alleged tra Kim Gardner steps down as St. Louis prosecutor 2 weeks sooner than planned 05/16/2023 05:35pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who this month announced she would resign effective June 1, said Tuesday she is leaving office immediately, ending a turbulent tenure marked by frequent criticism, especially from Missouri's Republican leaders. The sudden announcem Jurors deliberate in trial over limousine wreck that killed 20 people in rural New York 05/16/2023 05:25pm • SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A jury began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a limousine company manager accused of deadly indifference to safety rules before a crash that killed 20 people. Nauman Hussain is charged with criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in connection with US Senate votes to repeal DC police reform bill 05/16/2023 05:07pm • The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a D.C. police reform bill, shortly after a House hearing during which Republicans pressed Mayor Muriel Bowser about the District's rising crime problem. The legislative action reflects continuing scrutiny of D.C. and GOP congressional concerns that the Dist