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5 insider secrets to booking cheap airfare 05/29/2022 09:00am • Gas prices and other oil product prices are extremely volatile right now -- possibly putting a damper on summer travel plans as consumers struggle to budget for flight costs that feel like an ever-moving target. In spite of high flight prices, experts say cost may not be enough to deter travelers A good man: Exhibits honor 'Peanuts' creator Schulz on 100th 05/27/2022 11:56am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� In a series of ���Peanuts��� comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be known in the long-running strip as the ���kite-eating tree.��� In one episode that week, a frustrated Charlie Brown decline Planned Parenthood workers in 5 Midwest states seek union 05/26/2022 04:44pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� About 400 workers at Planned Parenthood offices in five states said Thursday they plan to unionize as their employer deals with the potential loss of business in states where abortions may become illegal if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruli Big tech deals keep coming: Broadcom buys VMware for $61B 05/26/2022 10:09am • Computer chip and software maker Broadcom will spend about $61 billion to acquire the cloud technology company VMware, one of the biggest deals of the year despite an environment of rising inflation and economic uncertainty. The proposed deal comes just weeks after billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Mu Davos gathering overshadowed by global economic worries 05/25/2022 02:07pm • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ��� Soaring inflation. Russia���s war in Ukraine. Squeezed supply chains. The threat of food insecurity around the world. The lingering COVID-19 pandemic. The risks to the global economy are many, leading to an increasingly gloomy view of the months ahead for corporate leader Davos updates | WTO chief speaks on climate, food crisis 05/25/2022 01:35pm • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ��� The head of the World Trade Organization said that leaders in developed nations will need to ���have the courage��� to reduce dependency on fossil fuels. At a separate session Wednesday at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweal Hall of Fame inventor 'thrilled' to play role in pandemic-era video, audio chats 05/25/2022 07:19am • Marian Croak can clearly picture sharing her family's landline phone when she was growing up. "I definitely remember the days where we all used to have a telephone that was hard-wired to the wall, so we had to stay still," Croak said. "We graduated to having jacks, where we could actually pick up Social media hammered by mounting questions over advertising 05/24/2022 07:42pm • Social media has had a rough 2022 with lingering questions about advertising spending, political ads and a $44 billion takeover of Twitter that may or may not be happening, depending on which Elon Musk tweet you read. Then late Monday Snap, which runs the Snapchat app that features vanishing messag Democrats: Google must protect privacy of abortion patients 05/24/2022 03:48pm • More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of people's location data, arguing the information could be used to identify women seeking abortions. In a letter sent Tuesday to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google parent Al Apple-Apps-Top-10 05/24/2022 11:19am • App Store Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi 3. HotSchedules, HotSchedules 4. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 5. Geometry Dash, RobTop Games AB 6. Rovio Classics: Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment Oyj 7. Poppy Playtime Chapter 1, MOBGames 8. Papa���s Freezeria To Go!, Flipl 16 DC-area companies on the new Fortune 500 05/24/2022 10:02am • Fortune 500���s 2022 list of largest companies based on annual revenue includes 16 with headquarters in the D.C. area, one less than last year, but still ranking the region at No. 8 for share of Fortune 500 companies. One local company fell out of the top 500, one on last year���s list is no long DC sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica privacy breach 05/23/2022 08:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users��� personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal. D.C. Attorney Genera 8 Sites to Cash In on Unused Gift Cards 05/22/2022 08:00pm • While many of us love gift cards, sometimes they just don't hit the mark. Maybe you received a gift card to a hardware store but aren't a DIYer, or you've collected several gift cards for fast-food chains yet are trying to eat healthier. These unwanted gift cards may go into a desk drawer and be for Adoptions another facet of life halted by war in Ukraine 05/21/2022 12:01pm • LEEDS, Maine (AP) ��� The ripple effects of Russia���s invasion of Ukraine have been devastating for families of all kinds ��� including those who have seen their prospective adoptions put on hold. Ukraine was once one of the U.S.���s most frequent partners on international adoptions, but the war ch Ross Stores, Applied Materials fall; Palo Alto, Deckers rise 05/20/2022 04:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Deckers Outdoor Corp., up $28.49 to $255.28. The maker of Ugg footwear handily beat Wall Street's fourth-quarter profit forecasts. Palo Alto Networks Inc., up $42.31 to $478.68. The security software maker raised i