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Why Are More Young Adults Getting Colon Cancer? 05/22/2024 08:00pm • An otherwise active, healthy 39-year-old, Marisa Peters was a mother of three boys and still nursing her 16-month-old when she was initially diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer. "Treatment started very quickly with six rounds of chemo, 28 days of radiation with chemo morning and night and rectal re What Is a Medigap Supplemental Plan and Who Needs One? 05/22/2024 08:00pm • The overwhelming number of choices that Medicare provides can be an annual headache for 65 million beneficiaries choosing their health insurance for the upcoming year. For the roughly 34 million beneficiaries enrolled in original Medicare, another decision to make is whether or not to add a Medicare The Trade School Trend: Why it Might be the Best Personal Financial Decision 05/22/2024 08:00pm • Four-year colleges and universities are getting considerable competition these days: Institutions that teach trades are rising in popularity. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported that enrollment in vocational programs rose by 16% from 2022 to 2023, a trajectory that's continui 15 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for 2024 05/22/2024 08:00pm • The stock market has resumed its climb, with the major indexes reaching new all-time highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recently topped 40,000, putting a definitive exclamation point on the bullish run. However, there are still reasons for caution. Inflation readings continue to run fairly hot. Top Apple exec acknowledges shortcomings in effort to bring competition in iPhone app payments 05/22/2024 07:24pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller on Wednesday acknowledged a court-ordered makeover of the U.S. payment system in its iPhone app store hasn't done much to increase competition — a shortcoming that could result in a federal judge demanding more changes. Schiller, who First aid from US pier in Gaza has reached starving Palestinians, the UN says 05/22/2024 06:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it has handed out in Gaza in recent days a “limited number” of high-energy biscuits that arrived from a U.S.-built pier, the first aid from the new humanitarian sea route to get into the hands of Palestinians in grave need. The MLB, MLBPA announce expanded financial assistance programs for former Negro Leagues players 05/22/2024 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced they are expanding existing financial assistance programs to support living Negro Leagues players. Players who played in fewer than four seasons in the Negro Leagues will receive an annual financial b Can Medicare money protect doctors from abortion crimes? It worked before, desegregating hospitals 05/22/2024 05:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The Supreme Court's pending Idaho abortion ruling may hinge on how federal spending power might protect doctors against a state's criminal code. For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded Coast Guard says Alaska charter boat likely capsized last year after flooding, killing 5 05/22/2024 02:16pm • SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A fishing charter boat found partially submerged off an island in southeast Alaska last May likely capsized after its well deck flooded in rough seas, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which investigated the incident that left five people dead, including two vacationing siste 'If they see you melt down, they're likely to melt down': Why you need to stay calm when kids get hurt 05/22/2024 01:17pm • Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer. And, with summer comes the inevitable seasonal injuries. An experienced nurse, Valerie Quick, who heads the trauma program at UVA Health Trauma Center said there are some things you can do to avoid summer hazards and minimize the risk that a trip Look up! Blue Angels take to the skies for Naval Academy commissioning week 05/22/2024 12:10pm • A sky show unlike any other comes to Annapolis, Maryland as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels honor the 2024 Naval Academy graduating class. The F/A-18 Super Hornets zip over the Severn River in tight, diamond formation before displaying the rest of their dazzling moves. But don't blink, or you might mis German far-right party bans its top European election candidate from campaigning after Nazi remark 05/22/2024 10:48am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party on Wednesday banned its top candidate for next month's European election from making any further campaign appearances and said he would resign from the party's board immediately. The public demotion came after Maximilian Krah told an At international energy conference, delegates push to make clean cooking accessible to all 05/22/2024 07:37am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Participants at a global conference on how to reduce the world's energy use are calling for universal access to clean cooking through government incentives and subsidies to unlock more private sector funds. The Paris-based International Energy Agency's 9th annual conference o How is the violent unrest in New Caledonia impacting global nickel prices? 05/22/2024 06:57am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Global nickel prices have soared since deadly violence erupted in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia last week. The overseas territory, which has been under French rule for over 170 years, is a major global producer of the critical material that is needed to m How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war 05/22/2024 03:20am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash. Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search a