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Wind farms' benefits to communities can be slow or complex, leading to opposition and misinformation 07/25/2024 11:04am • After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea. His group held town hall meetings and ran ads on the radio, arguing the wind farm would “fragment” the community, by Takeaways from AP's investigation into DEA corruption, agent accused of rape 07/25/2024 10:39am • MIAMI (AP) — Thousands of secret law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press offer a never-before-seen window into a culture of corruption among U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who parlayed the agency's shadowy money laundering operations into a worldwide pursuit of bing Highest-Paid CEOs: Do Stock Returns Justify Ballooning Pay? 07/24/2024 08:00pm • Executive pay has become a hot topic thanks in part to the widening pay gap between CEOs and average workers. The world's highest-paid CEOs would argue that their leadership skills help generate big returns for investors, justifying their large paychecks, but critics of swelling CEO compensation pac Review: ‘Presumed Innocent’ drops finale on Apple TV+ with fresh twists to classic courtroom drama 07/24/2024 02:40pm • In 1990, Harrison Ford had just wrapped his original trilogy as the heroic Indiana Jones when he decided to shift into a more duplicitous character in the twisty legal thriller “Presumed Innocent," a smash hit directed by the great Alan J. Pakula who bridged Ford's evolution of tangled husband The History of Bitcoin 07/23/2024 08:00pm • Bitcoin (BTC) was the first cryptocurrency created and is now the most valuable and well known. While the idea of cryptocurrency has been around for over 40 years, Bitcoin made it a reality in 2009 and its 15-year trading history has been an exhilarating ride. Fueled by increasing interest from youn Vietnam Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, the country's most powerful leader, dies at age 80 07/19/2024 07:23pm • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said Friday. He was 80. “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Nguyen Phu Trong Maryland board approves $148M in cuts to help support Medicaid, child care 07/18/2024 05:20am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland board approved $148.3 million in state spending reductions on Wednesday to balance the budget while directing more money to pay for child care and Medicaid — two priorities that Democratic Gov. Wes Moore's administration hopes will help improve a stagnant state e 2024 Election Latest: Biden contracts COVID-19, Vance speaks at RNC 07/17/2024 11:35pm • The third day of the Republican National Convention shifted its focus to issues of national security and foreign policy. Republicans are focusing on Democratic President Joe Biden’s handling of the ongoing crises in Europe and the Middle East. Former Trump administration officials have also taken Forex Trading for Beginners: How to Trade Currency and Avoid Forex Scams 07/17/2024 08:00pm • Foreign exchange trading, or forex, is full of both opportunity and danger for investors. Due to significant geopolitical uncertainty, this could be a very opportune time to trade currencies. However, as the promise of forex trading grows, so, too, does the volume of scams designed to steal money fr 13 Items That Sell on eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace 07/14/2024 08:00pm • If you have items to unload, you could hold a garage sale. But that involves setting aside days to sort and price items, not to mention the time needed to man the sale itself. Then, there is no guarantee that people will show up or buy anything. A better way to sell off your clutter may be to use on These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them 07/12/2024 05:25am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headline Political ads on social media rife with misinformation and scams, new research finds 07/10/2024 09:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The online advertisement to Donald Trump supporters was clear enough: Click here, and receive a free Trump 2024 flag and a commemorative coin. All in exchange for taking a quick survey and providing a credit card number for the $5 shipping and handling. “You’ll get two free g What Is an E-Check? 07/08/2024 08:00pm • E-checks are an electronic version of a paper check and are used to make payments online by both consumers and businesses through a data network. If you've entered your banking information online to make a direct payment, like with recurring rent or car payments, you've probably used an e-check befo Music Review: In a new expanded collection, how much of John Lennon's 'Mind Games' is too much? 07/08/2024 10:40am • The new remixed and expanded “Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection" is for those John Lennon fans who really, really love his inconsistent 1973 record of the same name. The problem is, many Lennon fans would rank the original “Mind Games” fourth or fifth among his most beloved records. Not that 7 Best Cryptocurrency ETFs to Buy 07/07/2024 08:00pm • The launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in January opened the floodgates for a slew of prospective new products. These cryptocurrency ETFs built upon the foundations established by earlier Bitcoin-futures-based ETFs and closed-end funds holding spot Bitcoin. "Crypto ETFs are essentia