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7 Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever 07/11/2024 08:00pm • Identifying stocks to buy and hold for decades rather than months or years can be difficult. The world and the economy are constantly changing, creating risks for long-term investors. A dividend payment from a large, profitable company with a leading market share in a stable or growing industry is a Faced with threats from Russia and its Asian supporters, NATO and Indo-Pacific partners get closer 07/11/2024 07:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Indo-Pacific countries attending the NATO summit issued a joint statement Thursday to “strongly condemn the illicit military cooperation" between Russia and North Korea, showing how the military alliance and its Pacific partners are forging closer ties to counter what they Mississippi election officials argue against quick work on drawing new majority-Black districts 07/11/2024 07:12pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Redrawing some Mississippi legislative districts in time for this November's election is impossible because of tight deadlines to prepare ballots, state officials say in new court papers. Attorneys for the all-Republican state Board of Election Commissioners filed arguments W Llega a Venezuela el hermano del líder del Tren de Aragua, extraditado desde España 07/11/2024 06:35pm • (CNN Español) -- Gerso Guerrero, hermano de “Niño Guerrero”, líder del Tren de Aragua, fue extraditado de España a Venezuela, informó el fiscal general de Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, en su cuenta de X.El Gobierno de Biden designa al Tren de Aragua como organización criminal trasnacional Los aliados de la OTAN discuten la recuperación de proyectos de infraestructura de propiedad china en Europa 07/11/2024 06:24pm • (CNN) -- Los funcionarios de la OTAN están discutiendo tomar medidas para recuperar algunos proyectos de infraestructura de propiedad china en Europa en caso de que estalle un conflicto más amplio con Rusia en el este del continente, le dijeron a CNN tres funcionarios involucrados en las discusion US sanctions a Venezuela gang for spreading criminal activity across Latin America 07/11/2024 06:07pm • MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday sanctioned a Venezuelan gang allegedly behind a spree of kidnappings, extortion and other violent crimes tied to migrants that have spread across Latin America and the United States. The U.S. also offered a $12 million reward for the arrest of thre Dollar General agrees to pay $12 million fine to settle alleged workplace safety violations 07/11/2024 06:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar General has agreed to pay a $12 million fine and improve conditions at its thousands of retail stores nationwide to make them safer for workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. The discount retailer and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reached t Marathon Oil reaches $241 million settlement with EPA for environmental violations in North Dakota 07/11/2024 05:57pm • The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice said the settle West Virginia, Idaho asking Supreme Court to review rulings allowing transgender athletes to compete 07/11/2024 05:22pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia and Idaho are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that blocked the enforcement of state laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in sports. “If the Supreme Court takes this up, it will determine the fate of women’s sports across th Devastated by record flooding and tornadoes, Iowa tallies over $130 million in storm damage 07/11/2024 05:21pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Record flooding and powerful tornadoes ravaged parts of Iowa for weeks this spring, destroying or damaging thousands of homes, closing roads and bridges and costing over $130 million in infrastructure damage, officials said Thursday. The disasters touched two-thirds of Iowa Editorial Roundup: United States 07/11/2024 05:21pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 6 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and how government works The Supreme Court’s 2024 term might have been defined, to the general public at least, by multiple decisions concerning Donald Trump. These cases matter. But the bigger pi Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announces reelection campaign 07/11/2024 05:08pm • ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's president announced on Thursday that he intends to run for a second term in office, five years after ascending to power as the military and establishment-backed candidate during widespread pro-democracy protests. The 78-year-old political veteran, Abdelmadjid Tebb Georgia's Fulton County approves plan for independent monitor team to oversee general election 07/11/2024 05:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's most populous county, which has had a history of voting problems and was a focus of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, has approved a plan for an independent monitor team to oversee this year's general election. The Fulton County Bo Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the 'written word' 07/11/2024 04:51pm • GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot. Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes Backers of ballot initiative to preserve right to abortions in Montana sue over signature rules 07/11/2024 04:16pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two organizations that gathered voter signatures to qualify proposed constitutional amendments for the Montana ballot — including an initiative to protect abortion rights — have sued the secretary of state's office over changes made to the rules about whose signatures may