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7 Best International Stock Funds to Buy 11/15/2023 07:00pm • Do you recall how the U.S. market performed between 1999 and 2009? If not, it's a classic case of recency bias clouding your investment perspectives. During that decade, the U.S. market experienced a flat trajectory, with a total return of just 1.7%. This sluggish growth was largely due to the impac 10 of the Best Stocks to Buy for 2023 11/15/2023 07:00pm • The year 2022 was a lousy one for the stock market. Even after factoring in dividends, the S&P 500 fell 19.4% in those 12 months, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite took a 33.1% haircut. The catalysts behind Wall Street's sell-off are all too familiar: Inflation, soaring interest rates, persi Packers' Watson believes he still has time to step up his production during frustrating season 11/15/2023 05:49pm • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers wide receiver Christian Watson remains confident he can turn his disappointing season around. After all, he has done it before. “At some point, it’s going to click,” Watson said. “It’s tough mentally just knowing it hasn’t happened yet, but at t Browns lose QB Deshaun Watson for rest of season with shoulder fracture; rookie starting vs Steelers 11/15/2023 05:40pm • BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson felt blindsided by the injury — as did the Browns. After finally playing like an elite quarterback, Watson was told Tuesday night by doctors that a hard hit that he shook off on Sunday ended his second season in Cleveland just as it was taking off. As he wrestle The Israeli military has set its sights on southern Gaza. Problems loom in next phase of war 11/15/2023 04:27pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — After raiding the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Israel appears close to completing its takeover of the besieged territory’s northern sector, which it has described as the headquarters of the ruling Hamas militant group. But as the military sets its sights on southern Gaza in Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash 11/15/2023 04:15pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley on Wednesday partially walked back her proposed requirement that social media companies ban people from posting anonymously online for national security reasons, a stance for which she drew backlash across conservative social media and some of her GOP presidential Business lobby attacks as New York nears a noncompete ban, rare in the US 11/15/2023 03:55pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When people think of noncompete agreements, they usually think of corporate executives with knowledge of prized trade secrets, whose lavish pay packages often come with a condition that if they quit or get fired, they can't go work for an industry rival. More and more, though, New Hampshire defies national Democrats’ new calendar and sets the presidential primary for Jan. 23 11/15/2023 03:47pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s secretary of state on Wednesday scheduled the state’s presidential primaries for Jan. 23, 2024, extending its century-old streak of going first despite national Democrats’ efforts to overhaul the nominating calendar. State law requires New Hampshire’s R Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/15/2023 02:46pm • 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 Boston College looks to bolster bowl possibilities as Eagles visit struggling Pittsburgh 11/15/2023 02:34pm • Boston College (6-4, 3-3 ACC) at Pittsburgh (2-8, 1-5 ACC), Thursday, 7 p.m. EST (ESPN) Line: Boston College by 3, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: Pitt leads 17-15. WHAT’S AT STAKE? The Eagles can bolster their bowl prospects by beating the Panthers for a third straight meeting, he Maryland filled two new climate change jobs. The goal is to reduce emissions and handle disasters 11/15/2023 12:35pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced two new positions on Wednesday aimed at addressing the causes and effects of climate change and other environmental threats. Moore, a Democrat, appointed Meghan Conklin as the state’s first chief sustainability officer, who will focus on me Governor eases lockdowns at Wisconsin prisons amid lawsuit, seeks to improve safety 11/15/2023 11:12am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lockdowns at two of Wisconsin's oldest and most understaffed prisons are being eased, the governor announced in a move that comes less than a month after inmates filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the conditions at one of the prisons amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas signals her interest in NATO's top job 11/15/2023 10:50am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has signaled her interest in becoming the next secretary general of NATO when the top job at the Western military alliance falls vacant next year. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic nation as its first female head of government sinc Cuban private grocery stores thrive but only a few people can afford them 11/15/2023 09:11am • HAVANA (AP) — Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba’s capital, Havana. Today, it is a well-stocked, if small, grocery store whose big board at the gate entices shoppers with such offerings as cooking oil, tomato sauce, Hershey's cocoa powder, Nutella, shampoo German publisher to stop selling Putin books by reporter who allegedly accepted money from Russians 11/15/2023 07:21am • BERLIN (AP) — A German publishing house said Wednesday it would stop selling books about Russian President Vladimir Putin by an award-winning journalist following media reports that he allegedly received at least 600,000 euros ($651,000) in offshore payments linked to Russian sources. Publisher Ho