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Biden blasts GOP 'wacko notions' amid debt limit standoff 04/19/2023 06:02pm • ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden lambasted Republicans' emerging trade-off plans to raise the nation's debt limit only in exchange for spending cuts and other policy concessions on Wednesday, declaring that GOP lawmakers are threatening a historic default on U.S. obligations “unless I ag Ganja glut? With excess weed, growers seek interstate sales 04/19/2023 05:52pm • TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — The email went out to legal cannabis growers around Washington state, alerting them that another of their colleagues had gone under. “Liquidation sale,” it said. Attached was a spreadsheet of items up for grabs: LED grow lights for $500 apiece. Rotary evaporators for ha Potomac Yard Metro station to open next month 04/19/2023 04:37pm • The long-awaited and often-delayed Potomac Yard Metro station will welcome riders on Friday, May 19. When riders travel to the station, they may be awestruck by its excellent views and pleasant aesthetic. “The only reason we're standing here is because our community never gave up on this Abortion, drug trafficking discussed at Kentucky GOP debate 04/19/2023 04:20pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial hopeful Kelly Craft pressed for the death penalty for drug traffickers connected to fatal overdoses in Kentucky, while rival Ryan Quarles defended the state's abortion ban during a free-wheeling GOP primary debate Wednesday on a popular sports radio Mexican president still vows to give National Guard to Army 04/19/2023 12:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president vowed Wednesday to try again to give control of the National Guard to the Army, despite a Supreme Court ruling against such a move. The Supreme Court had ruled Tuesday that the Constitution mandates that the Guard, which is now Mexico's main federal law enf In grim drought, Tunisians ration water in state-ordered ban 04/19/2023 11:08am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — It’s a feeble drip, drip, drip from the taps every night in Tunisia for six months. Spigots are cut off for seven hours from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. in a state-ordered water rationing in most regions across the country, including Tunis, the capital city. Tunisians are on the fron Boehly facing big decisions at Chelsea as season falls flat 04/19/2023 08:50am • With his head bowed and his hands in his pockets, Todd Boehly had a rueful look as he walked across the field at Stamford Bridge and likely toward a locker room containing one of the most expensively assembled squads in soccer. Chelsea had just been eliminated from the Champions League by Real Madri Leão outshines 'Kvara' in matchup of standout wingers in CL 04/19/2023 02:51am • NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Rafael Leão isn’t quite ready to relinquish his slalom title to Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. It was the Portuguese winger — not the Georgian dribbling wonder — who was more successful at weaving his way around defenders in their three-week showdown, as Leão carried AC Milan Biden pans McCarthy's debt plan as 'huge cuts' to Americans 04/18/2023 09:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously Tuesday to build support for a Republican plan that would demand strict limits to federal spending in return for agreeing to raise the nation's debt limit and stave off an unprecedented U.S. default. But President Joe Biden swiftly sw 7 Best Monthly Dividend Stocks With High Yields 04/18/2023 08:00pm • It's a universal truth on Wall Street that higher risk typically carries higher rewards. 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The damage is particularly severe in the Bank of America profits grow 15%, avoids industry crisis 04/18/2023 09:23am • NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America said its profits grew 15% last quarter, the latest of the big banks to do exceptionally well this earnings season as investors and consumers flock to Wall Street for safety after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The nation's second-largest ban Millennial Money: Young adults traveling on fiscal thin ice 04/18/2023 09:02am • Prices for travel remain stubbornly high. The cost of airfare in February was 27% higher than the same month a year earlier, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data . And rental car prices — having shot up during the pandemic — remain high today, as they’re 37% pricier in February th China's economic growth accelerates with consumption boost 04/18/2023 01:27am • BEIJING (AP) — China's economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter as consumer flocked back to shops and restaurants following the abrupt end of anti-virus controls. The 4.5% growth in gross domestic product from January to March compared to the same period in 2022 was the fastest in the pas