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Data Doctors: Tips for buying surge protection 05/31/2024 05:26pm • Q: What should I look for when buying a new surge protector for a large number of devices? A: Protecting your devices from electrical surges is just one important factor in choosing a power strip, especially if you’ve slowly accumulated numerous devices on your desk. The varying styles of po T-wolves realize returning to Western Conference finals -- and advancing further -- comes with cost 05/31/2024 05:15pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have their entire core signed for next season and beyond, boasting two All-Stars and multiple award winners from this breakthrough journey to the Western Conference finals. Maintaining the continuity they're seeking is going to cost them. The Timberw NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 05/31/2024 05:08pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Questions swirl around whether Trump can vote for himself in the 202 Not guilty plea for suspect in killing of nursing student found on University of Georgia campus 05/31/2024 04:32pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges in her death. A grand jury in early May returned an indictment charging Jose Ibarra, 26, with murder, aggravated assault, kid New Jersey attorney general blames shore town for having too few police on boardwalk during melee 05/31/2024 03:52pm • SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's attorney general on Friday blamed a Jersey Shore town for not having enough police officers patrolling its boardwalk over the Memorial Day weekend, when the force was overwhelmed and the city temporarily closed the walkway. Matthew Platkin said Wildwood di Oldest living National Spelling Bee champion reflects on his win 70 years later 05/31/2024 03:05pm • EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) — In medical school and throughout his career as a neonatologist, William Cashore often was asked to proofread others’ work. Little did they know he was a spelling champion, with a trophy at home to prove it. “They knew that I had a very good sense of words and that I El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele's inauguration 05/31/2024 12:50pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador said authorities have broken up a plot to plant bombs around the country to coincide with President Nayib Bukele’s inauguration on Saturday. The country’s National Police said the plot involved “veterans” of the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders 05/31/2024 09:42am • NEW YORK (AP) — As high-stakes elections approach in the U.S. and European Union, publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponized to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of leading political figures, a digital civil rights group said Friday. Researchers at the WTOP rides along with one of DC’s boot crews looking for 'scofflaw' vehicles 05/31/2024 05:17am • The sun was still rising one morning when a big, white traffic enforcement van with license plate readers on top and a computer on the dash left a D.C. Department of Public Works yard in Northeast and started driving. Within a few minutes, not far from Union Station, a computer started buzzing, lett Elections are not wasted on the young in EU. Some nations allow 16-year-olds to decide in June polls 05/30/2024 10:38pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — Youth leader Rareș Voicu remembers like it was yesterday when he went to the polls five years ago for the European Union elections in his Romanian hometown of Brăila. The problem was that he was 16 years old at the time and not eligible to cast a ballot. Once his family went int Andrew Tate loses appeal to relax judicial restrictions as he awaits human trafficking, rape trial 05/30/2024 09:42pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer awaiting trial in Romania on charges of human trafficking and rape, lost an appeal Thursday to have the court relax geographical restrictions preventing him from traveling outside the eastern European country. The Buchares A violent, polarized Mexico goes to the polls to choose between 2 women presidential candidates 05/30/2024 08:27pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wav Doomsday plot: Idaho jury convicts Chad Daybell of killing wife and girlfriend's 2 children 05/30/2024 08:12pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man was convicted Thursday of killing his wife and his new girlfriend's two youngest kids in a strange triple murder case that included claims of apocalyptic prophesies, zombie children and illicit affairs. Jurors deliberated just six hours before finding Chad Daybell 19 Part-Time Retirement Jobs That Pay Well 05/30/2024 08:00pm • Taking on a part-time retirement job doesn't have to mean low pay and uninteresting work. Many older workers perform important and essential jobs while maintaining a flexible schedule. With proper qualifications, you could shift to a well-paying part-time role. Here are some part-time jobs for retir What Is a Credit Union? 05/30/2024 08:00pm • A credit union is a not-for-profit financial institution that returns profits from its financial services to its members, or customers. Credit unions don't pay taxes and tend to offer better rates on their financial products. Additionally, as member-based cooperatives, credit unions work to improve