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How Race Affects Your Credit Score 05/05/2024 08:00pm • When looking at the numbers, you can't ignore the racial disparity in credit scores. Rates of subprime credit scores in majority-Black, Hispanic and Native American communities are at least 1.5 times higher than in majority-white communities, according to a 2022 report from the Urban Institute, a no College Campus Protests: What Students Should Know Before Taking Action 05/05/2024 08:00pm • Student activism has been prominent on college campuses across the U.S. for generations, from the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War decades ago to more recent protests surrounding Black Lives Matter, the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the latest war between Israel and Hamas. "Campuses have traditio 7 Best Monthly Dividend Stocks to Buy Now 05/05/2024 08:00pm • Dividend distributions -- usually made in cash but occasionally paid out in shares -- are payments made by public companies to stockholders. There are many good reasons savvy investors own dividend-paying stocks. Dividends are a direct and tangible way for investors to benefit from the earnings a co Cuerpos hallados "muy probablemente" son de los surfistas desaparecidos, dicen autoridades mexicanas 05/05/2024 06:08pm • (CNN) -- Las autoridades mexicanas dijeron este domingo que los tres cuerpos hallados en el estado de Baja California previamente esta semana son los de personas asesinadas y "muy probablemente" son los tres surfistas de Estados Unidos y Australia desaparecidos.La fiscal general del Estado, María E As US spotlights those missing or dead in Native communities, prosecutors work to solve their cases 05/05/2024 05:08pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was a frigid winter morning when authorities found a Native American man dead on a remote gravel road in western New Mexico. He was lying on his side, with only one sock on, his clothes gone and his shoes tossed in the snow. There were trails of blood on both sides of Israel y Hamas intercambian reproches en medio de escasas señales de avance en las conversaciones sobre el cese del fuego y los rehenes 05/05/2024 04:26pm • (CNN) -- El primer ministro de Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, dijo que "no puede aceptar" las exigencias de Hamas para poner fin a la guerra en Gaza, en un intercambio de reproches entre ambas partes en medio de unas nuevas conversaciones sobre el cese del fuego que apenas dan señales de avance.Se cr Trump says Biden is running a 'Gestapo' administration. It's his latest reference to Nazi Germany 05/05/2024 03:03pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump told Republican donors at his Florida resort this weekend that President Joe Biden is running a “Gestapo administration,” the latest example of the former president employing the language of Nazi Germany in his campaign rhetoric. The remarks Saturday at Mar-a-Lago w Trone continues record-setting spending blitz 05/05/2024 02:32pm • U.S. Rep. David Trone (D-6th) dropped another $12.35 million into his U.S. Senate campaign during the first 3 1/2 weeks of April, bringing his total personal investment in the race to a jaw-dropping $54.1 million. Trone is now the second biggest self-funder in a U.S. Senate race, behind U.S. Sen. In Maryland, GOP primary feels like a warmup for Hogan ahead of rare consequential general election for Senate 05/05/2024 02:23pm • Republican voters in Maryland head to the polls with an opportunity to choose a candidate to represent the party in what could be one of the most competitive Senate campaigns in recent memory. Despite a field of more than a half-dozen candidates, the Republican primary has lacked the heat of its A milestone reached in mainline Protestant churches' decades-old disputes over LGBTQ inclusion 05/05/2024 02:14pm • The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S., mirroring in many ways the broader fight for LGBTQ+ inclusion in civic life. Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive Protestant groups, t 'The Fall Guy' gives Hollywood a muted summer kickoff with a $28.5M opening 05/05/2024 02:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — “The Fall Guy,” the Ryan Gosling-led, action-comedy ode to stunt performers, opened below expectations with $28.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, providing a lukewarm start to a summer movie season that’s very much to be determined for Hollywood. The Universal Biden has rebuilt the refugee system after Trump-era cuts. What comes next in an election year? 05/05/2024 09:30am • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A church volunteer stood at an apartment door, beckoning inside a Congolese family for their first look at where they would live in America. “Your new house!” volunteer Dan Davidson exclaimed as the couple and the woman's brother stepped into the two-bedroom apartment in Methodists end anti-gay bans, closing 50 years of battles over sexuality for mainline Protestants 05/05/2024 08:38am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century's worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. But when asked at a news conference about the lightning speed of the changes, the Rev. Effie McAvoy took a longer view. “Oh, Hush money, catch and kill and more: A guide to unique terms used at Trump’s New York criminal trial 05/05/2024 08:13am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a courtroom. Centering on allegations Trump falsified his company’s records to conceal the nature of hush money reimbursements, it's the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president a What a judge's gag order on Trump means in his hush money case 05/05/2024 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — Virtually every day of his hush money criminal trial, former President Donald Trump talks about how he can’t talk about the case. A gag order bars Trump from commenting publicly on witnesses, jurors and some others connected to the matter. The New York judge already has found tha