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Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions 04/26/2024 10:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social � Temporary farmworkers get more protections against retaliation and other abuses under new rule 04/26/2024 07:59pm • SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday. Each year about 300,000 immigrants, mostly from Mexico, take seas Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass 04/26/2024 04:57pm • (RNS) — One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father. At the time, Cuellar thought it wa Trading Trump: Truth Social's first month of trading has sent investors on a ride 04/26/2024 12:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) — There have been lawsuits, short-selling and rampant speculation. Now, as Trump Media & Technology Group approaches its first month as a publicly traded company, it’s clear that — like the man it’s named after — there’s nothing typical about the stock. “If I woke How to Refinance a Personal Loan 04/25/2024 08:00pm • If you're paying off a personal loan, you may be searching for ways to pay less interest or lower your monthly payments. Refinancing can offer a solution, as it lets you replace your current personal loan with a new one. Depending on your financial profile, you might qualify for a better interest ra These apps allow workers to get paid between paychecks. Experts say there are steep costs 04/25/2024 05:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced in 2019, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn. “You know how they get you — the algorithms — like they’re reading your mind,” Branch said. “The ad said I could get up to $100 this week and repay it in my n Venezuela broke its HPV vaccine promises, and there's barely any sex ed. Experts say it's a problem 04/25/2024 10:27am • PUTUCUAL, Venezuela (AP) — Some of the 10 women and teenage girls who recently came to a medical clinic in eastern Venezuela for free contraceptives fidgeted a bit when a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms and birth control pills correctly. The health worker also asked Royal Caribbean: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 04/25/2024 06:40am • MIAMI (AP) — MIAMI (AP) — Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $360 million. On a per-share basis, the Miami-based company said it had profit of $1.35. Earnings, adjusted to extinguish debt and for non-recurring costs, were $1.77 per share. The results Columbia's president, no stranger to complex challenges, walks tightrope on student protests 04/25/2024 12:33am • Columbia University president Minouche Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the world’s most prominent global financial institutions. At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for example, she tackled both the European debt crisis Boeing's financial woes continue, while families of crash victims urge US to prosecute the company 04/24/2024 08:36pm • Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers. CEO David Calho 7 of the Best High-Dividend ETFs to Buy Now 04/24/2024 08:00pm • It's easy to explain the popularity of high-dividend ETFs: High dividends equal high yields and a reliable cash flow. 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