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5 Best Free Stock Analysis and Research Tools Online 02/25/2024 07:00pm • The U.S. stock market is off to a great start in 2024. Through Feb. 23, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 are up more than 7% year to date (YTD). The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up nicely as well, though not as dramatically. That well-known index has gained just over 3% YTD. You may be thi Tax-free status of movie, music and games traded online is on table as WTO nations meet in Abu Dhabi 02/25/2024 01:12am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Since late last century and the early days of the web, providers of digital media like Netflix and Spotify have had a free pass when it comes to international taxes on films, video games and music that are shipped across borders through the internet. But now, a global consensus on th Assault claims roil Iditarod sled dog race as 2 top mushers are disqualified, then 1 reinstated 02/23/2024 07:49pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Claims of violence against women are roiling the world's most famous sled dog race ��� Alaska's Iditarod ��� with officials disqualifying two top mushers this week and then quickly reinstating one of them on Friday, days before the start. The upheaval began last week, when Gloom settles over Germany's economy, with businesses downbeat about the coming months 02/23/2024 11:59am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� Germany's businesses remain mired in pessimism, a key survey showed Friday, as Europe's largest economy struggles with shortages of skilled labor, slower global trade, high interest rates and political squabbling. The closely watched Ifo institute survey of business sent This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing 02/23/2024 11:59am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way ��� on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though Utah man sues Maduro over trauma caused by nearly two years of imprisonment in Venezuela 02/22/2024 09:27pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� A Utah man imprisoned for nearly two years in Venezuela has sued President Nicol��s Maduro, accusing the leftist leader of heading a ���criminal enterprise��� that kidnaps, tortures and unjustly imprisons American citizens. The complaint filed Thursday in Miami federal court by Jos Man who intentionally drove his truck into a Muslim family, killing 4, gets life sentence in Canada 02/22/2024 07:58pm • LONDON, Ontario (AP) ��� A man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family was sentenced Thursday to life in prison as a Canadian judge ruled that the actions of the admitted white nationalist amounted to terrorism. Nathaniel Veltman has also been sentenced to a co 5 Best Tech ETFs to Buy in 2024 02/22/2024 07:00pm • The technology sector is off to a strong start in 2024 with the Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector Index up more than 10% year to date. This is hardly a surprise with the rise of artificial intelligence and increasing global dependence on technology. Technology has been a resilient sector and is likely to Viewpoint: Beware, Silicon Valley is threatening D.C.'s federal contracting prowess 02/22/2024 04:54pm • In 2001, the focus of our region���s technology community and that of Silicon Valley diverged. Today, this schism may be closing ��� and that is not necessarily good news. Twenty-five years ago, the internet was going through its first phase of commercial development, a moment in time people still Afrofuturist opera `Lalovavi' to premiere in Cincinnati on Juneteenth 2025 02/22/2024 03:57pm • The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth holiday and would mark the first of three commissions from the company to all-Black creative teams. ���Lalovavi" is composed by Kevin Day with Tifara Brown writing the libretto and Kimille Pakistan blocks X for the sixth day as activists criticize the social media platform's shutdown 02/22/2024 03:07pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan's media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country on Thursday enduring the sixth day of sweeping disruptions, partial and complete shutdowns. There was no comment on the outage by the Pakistan Telecommunication Au Google suspends Gemini AI chatbot's ability to generate pictures of people 02/22/2024 01:18pm • Google said Thursday it is temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologizing for ���inaccuracies��� in historical depictions that it was creating. Gemini users this week posted screenshots on social media of historically white-d Iran starts first election campaign since the 2022 mass protests over Mahsa Amini's death in custody 02/22/2024 12:16pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Candidates for Iran's parliament began campaigning Thursday in the country's first election since the 2022 crackdown on nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Iran's state television said 15,200 candidates will compete for a fo Yulia Navalnaya once avoided the limelight. Now she's Russia���s newest opposition leader 02/22/2024 10:50am • LONDON (AP) ��� Yulia Navalnaya used to avoid the cameras, staying in the background while her husband rose to become Russia���s most prominent opposition figure and President Vladimir Putin���s greatest foe. But following the death in prison last week of Alexei Navalny, she stepped onto a stage nor Charges against alleged white supremacists are tossed by a California judge for the second time 02/21/2024 08:54pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of inciting violence at California political rallies were dismissed by a federal judge who found they were selectively prosecuted. Federal prosecutors said me