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7 Top-Performing Equal-Weight ETFs to Buy 05/12/2024 08:00pm • Investors researching index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will find that most of them are capitalization-weighted, or cap-weighted for short. There are solid reasons why indexes and index fund managers are biased toward cap-weightings, but equal-weight ETFs can be very compelling. Equal-weight ETFs p Can You Use Your Mortgage to Buy Solar Panels? 05/12/2024 08:00pm • There are many benefits of installing solar panels when you buy a home, from reducing your carbon footprint to boosting your new home's value. But because installing a rooftop array can cost $18,000 to $20,000 before tax credits, you might need to borrow to make that happen. One option is to get a r Fate of Prince William's $140M sports complex is on the agenda this week 05/12/2024 06:31pm • Prince William County is considering developing an over $100 million indoor athletics facility. (Courtesy MEB) The Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday is expected to make a critical decision that could decide the fate of a proposed multimillion dollar indoor athletics facility. Fairfax Co. proposes smaller raises for teachers because of budget shortfall 05/12/2024 06:21pm • Fairfax County teachers and other school employees may be getting smaller raises next year because of a $102.5 million budget shortfall. At a school board meeting on Thursday, Superintendent Michelle Reid said the county’s board of supervisors didn’t provide as much funding as it historically Trump tells Jersey Shore crowd he's being forced to endure 'Biden show trial' in hush money case 05/12/2024 06:01pm • WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Sandwiched between his appearances in court, Donald Trump headed on Saturday to the Jersey Shore, where he repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for the criminal charges he’s facing as the presumptive nominees prepare to face off in the November election and called his New Michael Cohen: A challenging star witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial 05/12/2024 05:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors' biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president's hush money trial. But if Trump's fixer-turned-foe is poised to offer jurors this week an insider's view of the dealings at the heart o Schools turn to artificial intelligence to spot guns as companies press lawmakers for state funds 05/12/2024 05:37pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns. But the governor needs to approve the expenditures and the schools must meet some very specific criteria. The Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Barack Obama to headline Biden fundraiser 05/12/2024 01:28pm • (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign will deploy Hollywood star power at a fundraiser in Los Angeles next month – with Barack Obama adding some additional Democratic wattage. The event – set to feature the former president, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, among others – will seek t Tunisian lawyers call for strike over arrest of their colleague amid crackdown on dissent 05/12/2024 01:11pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Hooded police raided Tunisia’s bar association headquarters and arrested a lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that has ensnared political dissidents, non-governmental organizations and Black migrants. Sonia Dahmani, a prominent critic of the govern Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements 05/12/2024 12:51am • Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don't make a dent in the crisis. As state and local governments navigate how to use the Ex-GOP Gov. Hogan is popular with some Maryland Democrats who still don't want him in the Senate 05/11/2024 08:10pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Some Maryland Democrats have a soft spot for Larry Hogan, their former two-term Republican governor in a heavily blue state. But they don’t want to turn an open Senate seat – and possibly control of the chamber – over to the GOP this year. Party voters in Tuesday’s pr In Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary, a high-stakes clash between a history-making pick and a candidate with deep pockets 05/11/2024 05:46pm • Silver Spring, Maryland (CNN) — The farmers market in this suburb of Washington, DC, was a ripe crowd for Angela Alsobrooks, who’s locked in an increasingly contentious Senate Democratic primary on Tuesday. “I would really like to see a Black woman in the Senate. It’s about time,” 68-ye Joe Biden wants to remind 2024 voters of a record and an agenda. Often it's Donald Trump's 05/11/2024 04:48pm • SEATTLE (AP) — President Joe Biden is running for reelection on a record and an agenda -- often Donald Trump’s. In a hotel ballroom in Seattle, at fancy homes in California and at stops in Illinois and Wisconsin over the past week, Biden has been betting that reminding voters about Trump's presi Marc Benioff lunch auction raises $1.5M for charity. Not bad for first year without Warren Buffett 05/11/2024 04:23pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The $200,100 winning bid for a private lunch with software titan Marc Benioff might appear disappointing at first glance after years of multimillion-dollar bids for a private meal with investor Warren Buffett, but the winner also pledged to donate a total of $1.5 million to the Report: Trump may face a $100 million-plus tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower 05/11/2024 02:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump may face an IRS bill in excess of $100 million after a government audit indicates he double-dipped on tax losses tied to a Chicago skyscraper, according to a report by The New York Times and ProPublica that drew on a yearslong audit and public filing