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How to Start Investing and Saving for Retirement With Little Money 02/05/2024 07:00pm • Americans often have the misconception that they need a loaded bank account to invest in the stock market. That's not the case. While stocks such as Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (ticker: BRK.A, BRK.B) cost about $590,000 per share, there are plenty of other stocks, bonds and funds that r US Virgin Islands finalizes land swap deal to build school despite concerns over historic cay 02/05/2024 06:59pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday finalized a long-awaited deal that will allow officials to build a public school on St. John as part of a land swap that many opposed because it involves an island with historical ties to slavery. The deal with the U.S. National Park S Service has been restored to east Arkansas town that went without water for more than 2 weeks 02/05/2024 06:53pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Water is again flowing in an Arkansas town that was without service for more than two weeks after below freezing temperatures hit the state, but officials say much work remains to be done to avoid another shortage to the aging local system. The Arkansas Department of Healt DC day care devastated by gas explosion is getting help from the community 02/05/2024 06:50pm • The community around the D.C. day care center destroyed in a gas explosion is pitching in to help the owner. The Agua 301 restaurant in Navy Yard donated 25% of every check between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Monday to help Baby Einstein Child Development Center get back on its feet. Traci Johnson wi A Minnesota town used its anti-crime law against a protected class. It’s not the only one 02/05/2024 05:08pm • Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for several decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of “crime-free" or “public nuisance” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Fires in Chile, California rains and Spain drought spread pain of weather extremes 02/05/2024 05:03pm • Camila Lange, who is 7-months-pregnant, on Monday sat with her husband and dog in what used to be their home in Vina del Mar, Chile. Hundreds of homes in the central coastal area of the South American nation have been destroyed in fires that have killed at least 112 people. Weather and climate extre Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category 02/05/2024 04:46pm • A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown that the strongest tropical storms are getting more intense because of climate change. So the traditi El Salvador's Nayib Bukele takes aim at critics in looking ahead to 2nd presidential term 02/05/2024 04:09pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is savoring what appears to be a landslide reelection victory, and is railing against his international critics and the press. The populist leader has declared himself a harbinger of democracy, not the case study for 21st cent About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says 02/05/2024 04:04pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thirteen children are dying each day of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan's northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10-month war in their country, a medical charity said Monday. The head of the U.N. refugee agency, meanwhile, warned that Europe may have to deal Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 Max fuselages 02/05/2024 02:00pm • Boeing discovered another problem in some of its 737 Max fuselages that may delay deliveries of about 50 planes in the latest quality gaffe to plague the giant aircraft manufacturer. Boing said late Sunday that an employee of a supplier alerted managers about improperly drilled holes. The head of B Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump 02/05/2024 12:14pm • DENVER (AP) — In the summer of 2020, Gerard Magliocca, like many during the coronavirus pandemic, found himself stuck inside with time on his hands. A law professor at Indiana University, Magliocca emailed with another professor, who was writing a book about overlooked parts of the Constitution's The effect of police violence on Black Americans' health is documented in 2 new studies 02/05/2024 11:55am • The effect of police violence on Black Americans is tracked in two new studies, with one tying police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances and the other finding a racial gap in injuries involving police use of Tasers. The health effects of police violence on Black people “need to be documented as For a comforting vegetarian meal, bake your farro with tomatoes and cheese instead of boiling it 02/05/2024 11:14am • For a cheesy — and easy — one-pot vegetarian dinner, we move our grains off the stovetop and into the oven. But first, we give them an almost effortless flavor boost. Like most grains, farro typically is prepared by simmering it in broth or water until tender but slightly chewy. But it turns out Turkey has another new central bank leader. Here's what it means for the battered economy 02/05/2024 10:44am • ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has seen its fifth central bank leader depart in as many years as Hafize Gaye Erkan, the first woman in the top role, stepped down after just eight months in the job. She announced her resignation late Friday after recent claims of nepotism emerged in local media, allegation Depleted Real Madrid paying the price for not adding defenders in transfer window 02/05/2024 09:56am • MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti didn’t feel the need to sign a defender in January despite a wave of injuries to his back line. The coach was deploying midfielders as central defenders, but didn’t think he had to bring in anyone else to help out. But after seeing Madrid conced