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7 of the Best Charles Schwab Mutual Funds 04/23/2024 08:00pm • Choosing the "best" mutual fund can be subjective and largely depends on an individual investor's goals and risk tolerance. For example, while an equity fund that performed exceptionally over the past decade may appeal to a growth-focused investor, it might not suit someone seeking stable income. To Metro unveils plan to dampen impact of summer Red Line work that will shut down 5 stations 04/23/2024 06:20pm • Metro says free shuttle buses traveling in special bus-only lanes through parts of Montgomery County, Maryland, will help riders affected by the shutdown of five Red Line stations this summer. The Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen and Silver Spring stations will be closed from June 1 through Aug. 31 When can doctors provide emergency abortions in states with strict bans? Supreme Court to weigh in 04/23/2024 05:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies. The justices are weighing a case from Idaho, where a strict abortion ban went into effect shortly aft GoFundMe expands into Mexico as part of for-profit crowdfunding platform's international growth 04/23/2024 05:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Mexican fundraisers can now solicit donations on GoFundMe, the company announced Tuesday, as the crowdfunding giant expands into what it hopes is the first of more untapped Latin American markets to follow. Mexico marks the 20th country serviced by GoFundMe. The for-profit platform Energy Strategy Series 2024: DOE leads effort to modernize power grid, make it resilient and adaptable 04/23/2024 05:15pm • The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act put the Energy Department (DOE) in both an enviable and challenging position at the same time. Congress appropriated nearly $100 billion to invest in clean energy, grid reliability upgrades, renewable energy technology manufacturi New Fort Wayne, Indiana, mayor is sworn in a month after her predecessor's death 04/23/2024 04:38pm • FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Democrat Sharon Tucker was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Indiana’s second-most populous city, nearly a month after her predecessor's death. Tucker, who had been a Fort Wayne City Council member, took the oath of office Tuesday morning at the Clyde Theater, three da Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police 04/23/2024 04:25pm • NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County Sheriff's Office sent out a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound What's EMTALA, the patient protection law at the center of Supreme Court abortion arguments? 04/23/2024 03:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine whether doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies in states that enact abortion bans. The Justice Department has sued Idaho over its abortion law, which allows a woman to Minnesota and other Democratic-led states lead pushback on censorship. They're banning the book ban 04/23/2024 02:15pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A movement to ban book bans is gaining steam in Minnesota and several other states, in contrast to the trend playing out in more conservative states where book challenges have soared to their highest levels in decades. The move to quash book bans is welcome to people like Sh As airplane makers struggle to meet demand, Morocco wants to become a manufacturing hub 04/23/2024 11:59am • CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan officials want to turn the country into an aviation hub, luring investors aiming to spread out their supply chains to more nations with available and affordable workers. The North African kingdom is among a longer list of countries vying for contracts with big m Richmond Mayor Stoney drops Virginia governor bid, will run for lieutenant governor 04/23/2024 11:40am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Tuesday he is dropping his bid for Virginia governor in 2025, avoiding a nomination contest with U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, and will instead run for lieutenant governor. A former member of ex-Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administ European Space Agency adds 5 new astronauts in only fourth class since 1978. Over 20,000 applied 04/23/2024 08:05am • COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, t Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut 04/23/2024 07:34am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping the California reject bill to crackdown on how utilities spend customers' money 04/22/2024 11:46pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal aimed at cracking down on how some of the nation's largest utilities spend customers' money. California's investor-owned utilities can't use money from customers to pay for things like advertising their brand or lobbying This Fairfax man says he'll never forget the people who saved his life 04/22/2024 10:10pm • Albert Johnson almost died when he passed out behind the wheel of his car. The 77-year-old Fairfax man smashed into a light pole just five years ago after going to the gym and having a cup of coffee at a local restaurant. Once he left the café on April 17, driving west on Route 29, he passed out