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Home Depot's sales continue to soften in 2024 as inflation, delayed start to spring weigh on sales 05/14/2024 01:24pm • Home Depot's sales continued to soften in the first quarter as the nation's largest home improvement retailer was not only constrained by high mortgage rates and higher inflation for its customers, but it also had to deal with a delayed start to spring. Sales slipped 2.3% to $36.42 billion for the p Playing in the PGA Championship at 61, golf teacher's biggest lesson is the power of perseverance 05/14/2024 11:40am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� At first glance, it's easy to pick out the most unlikely entrant in golf's second major of the year. He's a 61-year-old club pro out of Oklahoma named Tracy Phillips. A deeper look at Phillips' pedigree suggests the only fluke about the 5-foot-4 golf instructor teeing it up Another top Russian Defense Ministry official is arrested on bribery charges amid Kremlin shake-up 05/14/2024 09:15am • A second senior Russian defense official was arrested on bribery charges, officials said Tuesday, days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defense minister in a Cabinet shake-up that fueled expectations of more such purges. Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, the 55-year-old chief of the Defense Minist India PM Modi files his nomination to run for a third term in general election 05/14/2024 06:17am • VARANASI, India (AP) ��� Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi on Tuesday surrounded by his party leaders and supporters as he formally filed paperwork to run in an ongoing election that is essentially a referendum on his decade in power. The 73-year-old leader h AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines 05/14/2024 06:09am • In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people ��� not simply once or twice, but multiple times. Most violations involved pinning people facedown in ways that could restrict Arthur Irving, who grew his family's oil business and was one of Canada's richest men, dies at 93 05/14/2024 02:39am • SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick (AP) ��� Arthur L. Irving, one of Canada's richest people and the son of industrialist K.C. Irving, has died at 93 after a life spent growing the oil business his father founded. Irving Oil said in its statement that he died Monday surrounded by his wife, Sandra, and daught How to Be Financially Responsible -- and What It Means 05/13/2024 08:00pm • Have you ever been told you need to be more financially responsible? The phrase "financial responsibility" is often touted as a goal that everyone needs to reach, but what does it actually mean? Some money decisions are obviously good ones, like saving money for an emergency or paying off your credi Ask a Credit Card Expert: Why Is my APR so High if I Have Good Credit? 05/13/2024 08:00pm • The interest rate on your credit card determines how much you'll pay if you carry a balance. Interest rates vary across different types of cards, but your credit score is a major factor in setting your credit card annual percentage rate. Like many Americans, you may wonder why your credit card inter 7 Top Financial Advisor Firms by AUM 05/13/2024 08:00pm • Money can be complicated. 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It was to be his last inspection in that role. Over the weekend, President Vladimir Putin replaced Shoigu ��� th The Latest | Michael Cohen takes the stand as testimony in Trump hush money case enters 4th week 05/13/2024 04:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The fourth week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial could be a doozy: Michael Cohen, the prosecution's star witness, has taken the stand. The long-anticipated testimony on Monday from Trump���s former lawyer and personal fixer follows a breathtaking buildup by A new Democratic ad campaign targets one of Trump's most loyal blocs: Rural voters 05/13/2024 02:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A Democratic group is rolling out a new $140 million ad campaign that aims to chip away at Donald Trump's support among one of his most loyal voting blocs: rural voters. The ads, from American Bridge 21st Century, will begin airing Monday in the northern battleground states of Penn Boeser, Lindholm score 2 each as Canucks beat Oilers 4-3 to take 2-1 lead in West playoff series 05/13/2024 01:05pm • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ��� Vancouver rookie goalie Arturs Silovs is already earning a reputation for stepping up in big moments. Silovs stopped 42 shots, Brock Boeser had two goals and an assist, and Elias Lindholm also scored twice as the Canucks held on to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Sunday ni Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and 'King of the Bs,' dies at 98 05/13/2024 01:04pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Roger Corman, the ���King of the Bs��� who helped turn out such low-budget classics as ���Little Shop of Horrors��� and ���Attack of the Crab Monsters��� and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his