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Liz Weston: Why retirees may want to buy an immediate annuity now 09/18/2023 08:37am • An immediate annuity is an insurance product that provides guaranteed income: You give an insurer a chunk of money, and the company gives you a stream of payments that can last for life. The payments begin within 12 months of purchase. Now may be a good time for retirees to buy an immediate annuity, The Red Cross: Badly needed food, medicine shipped to Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region 09/18/2023 06:38am • YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday that it shipped badly needed flour and medical supplies to an ethnic Armenian region within Azerbaijan that has been suffering under a road blockade since late last year. The region, Nagorno-Karabakh, has been under Judge will hold hearing on ex-DOJ official's request to move Georgia election case to federal court 09/18/2023 06:32am • ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge who rejected efforts by former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his charges in the Georgia election subversion case to federal court is set to hear arguments Monday from former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on the same issue. Fulto Pope meets with new Russian ambassador as second Moscow mission planned for his Ukraine peace envoy 09/18/2023 05:51am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Russia’s new ambassador to the Vatican met Monday with Pope Francis for a protocol visit, as signs emerged that the Vatican's Ukraine peace envoy could soon be undertaking a second mission to Moscow. The Vatican said Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky was presenting his credentials Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels 09/17/2023 11:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas. But protesters say it's not going to be enou The spotlight is on Ukraine at UN leaders' gathering, but is there room for other global priorities? 09/17/2023 08:42pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The war in Ukraine and its visiting president take center stage at the United Nations this week, but developing countries will be vying for the spotlight as well as they push for faster action on poverty and inequality at the first full-on meeting of world leaders since the C 7 Best Value ETFs to Buy and Hold 09/17/2023 08:00pm • Historically, which has outperformed: value stocks or growth stocks? If your gut reaction is to lean toward growth stocks, especially given their success in recent years, you may be under the spell of recency bias. The data tell a different story. "The interesting thing about growth versus value is Fatah gives deadline for handover of general's killers amid fragile truce in Lebanon refugee camp 09/17/2023 05:43pm • BEIRUT (AP) — A top official with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group said Sunday that Palestinian and Lebanese officials have given militant Islamic groups in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp until the end of the month to hand over the accused killers of a Fatah general College Football Corner: Terps and Dukes emerge unscathed after another wild weekend 09/17/2023 02:50pm • Dave Preston is an AP Top 25 voter. See his latest rankings online here. I have long maintained that September, and the appendix-like "week zero" in August, is college football's "show me month." While teams can improve, and the good ones do, over a 12-game regular season slate, you often see the 'American Fiction' wins People's Choice award at Toronto Film Festival 09/17/2023 12:38pm • Cord Jefferson's “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race. “American Fiction" is the directorial debut of Jefferson, the ve Atlantic storm Lee delivers high winds and rain before forecasters call off all warnings 09/17/2023 11:21am • BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Atlantic storm Lee — which made landfall at near-hurricane strength, bringing destructive winds and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada — kept weakening Sunday after officials withdrew warnings and predicted the storm would disappear early this week. Th Texas AG Ken Paxton's impeachment trial is over. Here's what led to his acquittal and what's next 09/17/2023 10:59am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The GOP-dominated Texas Senate acquitted fellow Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday, putting him back in office and showing no political damage after a two-week impeachment trial on allegations of corruption. The impeachment charges centered on allegati Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home 09/17/2023 10:11am • Alisha Alderson placed everything she needed for the last month of her pregnancy in various suitcases as she prepared to leave the comfort of her home in rural eastern Oregon. The only maternity ward within 40 miles abruptly closed in August, so she would be staying at her brother’s house in Idaho Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home 09/17/2023 10:08am • Alisha Alderson placed her folded clothes and everything she needed for the last month of her pregnancy in various suitcases. She never imagined she would have to leave the comfort of her home in rural eastern Oregon just weeks before her due date. But following the abrupt closure in August of the o Dozens are injured at an Eritrean event in Germany, including 26 police officers 09/17/2023 06:05am • BERLIN (AP) — German police said dozens of people, including at least 26 officers, were injured during unrest surrounding an Eritrean cultural festival in the southwestern city of Stuttgart. Shortly before the event was set to begin Saturday afternoon, around 200 protesters gathered in the area ou