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7 Best High-Dividend Stocks to Buy Under $10 05/14/2024 08:00pm • In the last 12 months, the stock market is up an impressive 27%, as measured by the S&P 500's performance. And even as many stocks have run up, their dividends haven't kept pace. Silicon Valley icon Alphabet Inc. (ticker: GOOG, GOOGL) is a good example. The company just announced its first-ever 5 Best Bond Funds for Retirement 05/14/2024 08:00pm • Bonds make up the foundation of most successful retirement portfolios. These assets are debt-related instruments issued by governments and corporations that are looking to raise money. Think of them as the other side of the loan, where the "issuer" is the borrower and investors are collectively the The Latest | UN says over half a million people flee fighting in Gaza; Israel marks Independence Day 05/14/2024 06:33pm • More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in Rafah and northern Gaza, the United Nations says. Israelis celebrated their Independence Day on Tuesday with barbecues in parks across the country, although the normally raucous part Blinken in Kyiv tries to rally sagging Ukrainian spirits as Russia makes new military gains 05/14/2024 06:16pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought Tuesday to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them during a visit to Kyiv that they are not alone and that billions of dollars in American military aid on its way after months of po Argentina reports its first single-digit inflation in 6 months as markets swoon and costs hit home 05/14/2024 05:59pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s monthly inflation rate eased sharply to a single-digit rate in April for the first time in half a year, data released Tuesday showed, a closely watched indicator that bolsters President Javier Milei’s severe austerity program aimed at fixing the count The Latest | Defense expects cross-examination of Cohen to last through Thursday, transcript shows 05/14/2024 05:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe returned to the witness stand and could face a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers. Michael Cohen 's testimony this week has linked Trump to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifli Messi the dog comes to Cannes for an encore 05/14/2024 05:41pm • CANNES, France (AP) — The first star to arrive on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival came on four legs. Messi, the dog from the film “Anatomy of a Fall,” walked up and down the Cannes carpet on Tuesday ahead of the opening ceremony. Lines of tuxedo-clad photographers called out � 'Deeply concerned' with China doping allegations, US drug czar sends letter to anti-doping agency 05/14/2024 04:39pm • The U.S. drug czar sent a pointed letter to world anti-doping officials, saying leaders in governments across the globe “remain deeply concerned” about the response to allegations of Chinese doping before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Rahul Gupta, who holds a position on the World Anti-Doping Agen North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too 05/14/2024 04:36pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — People wearing a mask during protests in North Carolina could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation that critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public as a way to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons. Republicans supporters s Ship that struck Baltimore bridge lost power twice before crash, NTSB preliminary report finds 05/14/2024 03:41pm • (CNN) — The cargo ship Dali that crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge in March had a pair of catastrophic electrical failures minutes before the crash and had experienced two blackouts a day earlier, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Boar Will AI replace doctors who read X-rays, or just make them better than ever? 05/14/2024 03:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job? It’s a new question for many workers amid the rise of ChatGPT and other AI programs that can hold conversations, write stories and even generate songs and images within seconds. For doctors who review scans to spot c The US is wrapping up a pier to bring aid to Gaza by sea. But danger and uncertainty lie ahead 05/14/2024 03:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock — the length of five U.S. football fields — into a beach in northern Gaza. And that may be the end of the easy part for the Biden administration's two-month- Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92 05/14/2024 03:02pm • Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary priz Astronomers find the biggest known batch of planet ingredients swirling around young star 05/14/2024 02:02pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the sun, with enough gas and dust to form super-s France imposes curfew in New Caledonia after unrest by people who have long sought independence 05/14/2024 10:44am • PARIS (AP) — Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia announced a two-day curfew and banned gatherings on Tuesday after violent unrest on the archipelago with decades of tensions between indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and colonizers' descendants who want to remain part