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GOP leader McConnell returns to Senate after head injury 04/17/2023 07:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is back at work in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and extended treatment for a concussion. The longtime Kentucky senator, 81, has been recovering at home since he was released from a DeSantis seeks to control Disney with state oversight powers 04/17/2023 06:06pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on Walt Disney World on Monday by announcing legislation that will use the regulatory powers of Florida government to exert unprecedented oversight on the park resort's rides and monorail. Lawmakers will introduce a Business Highlights: IRS call times, McCarthy on debt bill 04/17/2023 04:47pm • ___ Calling the IRS? Hold times are way down this tax season WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it has answered 2 million more calls this tax filing season than a year ago, with the average phone wait time now at four minutes. That’s down considerably from 27 minutes for the 2022 tax season. The fed Ex-leader Merkel decorated with highest German honor 04/17/2023 02:34pm • BERLIN (AP) — Former Chancellor Angela Merkel was decorated with Germany's highest possible honor on Monday in recognition of her near-record 16 years at the helm of the country. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for special achievement on the four-te Slow start on World Bank reform angers climate-hit countries 04/17/2023 01:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank meetings were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change like Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s Barbados, one of many Caribbean islands battered by worsening hurricanes. But if this was a new era, th Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 04/17/2023 01:16pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Liz Weston: Retiring? If you need a home loan, get one first 04/17/2023 08:45am • Retired engineers Kelly and Derek Barkey assumed they would be approved when they applied for a $50,000 home equity line of credit two years ago to fix up their new house. The Barkeys, now 56 and 59, had just sold their longtime home in Southern California and paid cash for a house worth about $8 Progressives focus on local-level wins to counter setbacks 04/17/2023 12:06am • CHICAGO (AP) — For many progressives, the past decade has been littered with disappointments. But recent down-ballot victories are providing hope of reshaping the Democratic Party from the bottom up, rather than from Washington. In Chicago earlier this month, a former teacher’s union organizer How Much Should You Save In an Emergency Fund? 04/16/2023 08:00pm • If you lose your job, have a medical emergency, need to make home repairs or experience any other kind of last-minute crisis, an emergency fund is a critical tool to ensure you can maintain financial security. "Emergencies arise for everyone and are almost always unexpected and sudden. Always ensure West Virginia man accused of arson, murder in wildfire death 04/15/2023 11:47am • FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been charged with murder after a forestry worker was killed trying to extinguish a fire the man is accused of setting. The fire was reported on Tuesday night in the Tucker Hollow area of Fayette County. Overnight, the fire grew to consume several US dollar scarcity threatens Bolivia's 'economic miracle' 04/15/2023 09:34am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Sofia Andrade, a lawyer, chose over the past month to withdraw all her dollar savings from the bank as the US currency became scarce on the streets of Bolivia. “I prefer to have them at home,” she said. “I fear they won’t let me withdraw them later.” Like her, man Speaker McCarthy: 100 days in power and a tough road ahead 04/15/2023 08:45am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Rep. Kevin McCarthy emerged from a messy 15-ballot election and ascended to House speaker, he was emboldened rather than chastened by the fight, declaring that his father taught him early on in life: “It’s not how you start; it's how you finish.” But as the embattled R Dallas Eakins won't return to Anaheim Ducks after 4 seasons 04/14/2023 03:47pm • IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Eakins was the Anaheim Ducks' coach during the worst four-year stretch in franchise history. Although Pat Verbeek knows Eakins is far from solely responsible, the general manager is ready to continue his rebuilding project with a new voice behind the bench. Eakins will Russell Crowe stars as Vatican’s 'James Bond of exorcists' 04/14/2023 11:08am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert's journey with “The Pope's Exorcist,” a film about arguably the most famous exorcist in the Catholic Church, began with an adventuresome visit to Milan about six years ago. The Jesuit priest recalls sitting at a restaurant sipping wine and mulling the 7 Best Long-Term ETFs to Buy and Hold 04/13/2023 08:00pm • Many investors think the key to success is outsmarting the rest of Wall Street. But the brutal reality is that outperformance is incredibly hard to come by -- even for expert money managers with years of experience. Consider that in a very challenging 2022, more than half of the managers of large U.