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Google's parent posts double-digit revenue growth in 4th quarter, but ad sales rise at slower pace 01/30/2024 05:23pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google���s corporate parent returned to double-digit revenue growth during last year���s final quarter, signaling the internet powerhouse has regained its footing even as it grapples with regulatory and competitive threats to its digital empire. The results announced Tuesday b Match Group: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 01/30/2024 05:03pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� DALLAS (AP) ��� Match Group, Inc. (MTCH) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $229.7 million. The Dallas-based company said it had profit of 81 cents per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Resea Alphabet: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 01/30/2024 04:05pm • MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) ��� MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) ��� Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $20.69 billion. The Mountain View, California-based company said it had profit of $1.64 per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 16 an Virginia Senate passes bill to let localities increase sales tax to pay for school construction 01/30/2024 12:35am • The Virginia Senate on Monday passed a bill authorizing local governments to increase their local sales tax to fund school construction projects if voters approve the hike in a referendum. The proposal received support from the Senate during the past two sessions, but it faltered both times in th Under bombing in eastern Ukraine and disabled by illness, an unknown painter awaits his fate 01/29/2024 08:16pm • SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) ��� Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can���t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends The Most Overvalued Housing Markets in the U.S. 01/29/2024 07:00pm • In the pre-pandemic days of late 2019 and early 2020, on a national level the U.S. housing market was reasonably balanced. With a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rate of 3.6%, the typical homeowner was paying just 22% of monthly per capita income on mortgage payments. Meanwhile, the typical tenant was Florida attorneys who criticized discrimination ruling should be suspended, judge says 01/29/2024 03:06pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� A judge recommended 30-day suspensions for a father-daughter pair of lawyers in Florida who spoke out after another judge overturned a jury���s $2.7 million ruling in favor of a Black doctor in a racial discrimination case. Judge Lisa Herndon also recommended that Orlando atto Do I Need a Gift Letter for My Mortgage? 01/28/2024 07:00pm • Making a down payment on a home purchase can be a significant investment. If you're lucky enough to have someone willing to contribute funds toward your down payment, there are just a few legal boxes you'll need to check. One of these is providing your lender with a gift letter. Here's a look at wha 9 Ways to Improve Your Finances in 2024 01/28/2024 07:00pm • Is improving your financial health on your list of new year's resolutions? Financial security is a goal for many, but achieving it takes planning and work. If you want to end your 2024 in better financial health than you started it, setting goals now can help you get there. These short- and long-ter Mystery deaths of 3 Chiefs fans fuels speculation but police say there's still no sign of foul play 01/27/2024 10:45pm • It has been three weeks since three Kansas City fans joined friends to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers in the final game of the regular season. Their bodies were found in a friend's backyard two days later. Police still haven't said how the men died, but affirmed Saturday amid intense Man charged in 20-plus calls of false threats in US, Canada pleads guilty 01/26/2024 09:36pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) ��� A Washington state man who made over 20 ���swatting��� calls around the country and in Canada, prompting emergency responses to his fake bombing, shooting and other threatening reports, pleaded guilty on Thursday to four crimes. Ashton Garcia, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday in U Deepfake explicit images of Taylor Swift spread on social media. Her fans are fighting back 01/26/2024 07:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift are circulating online, making the singer the most famous victim of a scourge that tech platforms and anti-abuse groups have struggled to fix. Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Swift began circulating widely this week on th Woman committed to mental institution in Slender Man attack again requests release 01/26/2024 07:17pm • WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) ��� One of two Wisconsin women accused of stabbing a classmate nearly to death almost a decade ago to please internet horror character Slender Man is again asking a judge to release her from a mental institution. Morgan Geyser, now 21, petitioned Waukesha County Circuit Judge Mic Investigation reveals Fargo gunman's movements before deadly police shooting 01/26/2024 06:59pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� Newly released investigative reports into last year's deadly ambush of police officers in Fargo, North Dakota, show the gunman loading his weapons into a garage and visiting a gun range hours before the attack. The trove of documents released Thursday includes a timeline of i Canadian man accused of selling deadly substances to plead not guilty: lawyer 01/26/2024 01:46pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� The lawyer for a Canadian man accused of selling lethal substances on the internet to people at risk of self harm said he will be pleading not guilty to upgraded murder charges. Kenneth Law was charged in December with 14 counts of second-degree murder, and his lawyer, Matthew Gour