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How Much of an Investing Portfolio Should Be in Cash? 10/31/2023 08:00pm • You may have heard stories of people in past generations storing cash in a coffee can in the backyard. Perhaps they didn't trust banks, or perhaps they just wanted easy access to their cash in an emergency.Fortunately, today we have easier and more secure ways of stashing cash, including money marke Essential Questions to Ask When Choosing a Nursing Home 10/31/2023 08:00pm • Finding the right nursing home for a loved one can be a challenging proposition. The options are many, but the industry can seem completely opaque. That's why visiting a home -- and asking a lot of questions -- before you move a loved one there is a critical part of the process. The following nine c Closing arguments next in FTX founder Sam Bankman's fraud trial after his testimony ends 10/31/2023 07:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried underwent a final barrage of questions on Tuesday from a prosecutor aimed at showing that he’s not being honest about how much he knew about the disappearance of $8 billion from his customers’ accounts, setting the stage for final arguments in his Tropical Storm Pilar dumps heavy rains on Central America leaving at least 2 dead 10/31/2023 06:04pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Tropical Storm Pilar lashed Central America on Tuesday with heavy rains that have been blamed for two deaths in El Salvador as the storm meanders off the Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Tuesday that Pilar was located about 160 miles (26 Austin airport employee fatally struck by vehicle on tarmac 10/31/2023 05:46pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A vehicle fatally struck a person on the tarmac of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, officials said Tuesday, the second fatal incident this year involving a worker at the airport in the Texas capital. The person was identified as an airport employee but authorities did n U.S. military and diplomatic leaders urge a divided Congress to send aid to both Israel and Ukraine 10/31/2023 05:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top military and diplomatic leaders urged an increasingly divided Congress on Tuesday to send immediate aid to Israel and Ukraine, arguing at a Senate hearing that broad support for the assistance would signal U.S. strength to adversaries worldwide. The testimony fr Russian-American journalist denied release into house arrest 10/31/2023 04:09pm • MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to remain in jail ahead of trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, rather than be released to house arrest, state news agency Tass reported. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. governmen Amnesty International says Israeli forces wounded Lebanese civilians with white phosphorus 10/31/2023 03:31pm • BEIRUT (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus, a controversial incendiary munition. The organization said it verified three other in Boris Johnson's former top aide is withering about UK government during COVID-19 pandemic inquiry 10/31/2023 03:30pm • LONDON (AP) — The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in the U.K. government during the coronavirus pandemic. In keenly awaited testimony to the country’s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Dominic C Christian McCaffrey repeats as the top running back in the AP’s NFL Top 5 rankings 10/31/2023 01:15pm • Christian McCaffrey has been scoring at a record-setting pace so far this season. That performance has helped the San Francisco 49ers star score the honor of being voted the top running back in the league by The Associated Press. A panel of nine AP Pro Football Writers ranked the top five players at War plunged Israel’s agricultural heartlands into crisis, raising fears for its farming future 10/31/2023 12:28pm • ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — The soldiers guarding Avi Chivivian's organic vegetable farm in southern Israel must first scour every corner of his fields for militants before they give him the all clear: He has six hours to work. It's potato planting season for the farms of southern Israel, a region Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley 10/31/2023 12:12pm • In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial. Her dreamy, lyrical portraits of girl culture and gilded cages have brought her to 18th century Versailles, 1970s suburban Michigan, the 1860s So Abuse victims say gun surrender laws save lives. Will the Supreme Court agree? 10/31/2023 12:09pm • As Janet Paulsen prepared to leave her husband, who had become increasingly volatile over their 15-year marriage, she slipped down to his gun safes one night while he slept to try to change the combination locks. “There were 74 firearms in my house,” said Paulsen, who was stunned by how many gun Youngkin issues order aiming to combat antisemitism, other anti-religious hatred 10/31/2023 12:09pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive directive Tuesday aimed at combatting antisemitism and other forms of anti-religious hatred in Virginia amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The governor's order instructs law enforcement to “increase information exchange and resource Commanders Corner: Deja vu right before the trading deadline 10/31/2023 10:32am • Sunday's 38-31 loss to Philadelphia delivered equal parts encouragement and aggravation to the Washington Commanders fan base. For the second time in five weeks, they played the reigning NFC champs to a one-possession game, but for the second time this fall, they let a double-digit first-half lea