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8 Best Fintech Stocks to Buy in 2023 06/14/2023 08:00pm • When the definitive list of late-2010s buzzwords is written, "fintech" deserves a place on the list. This merging of finance and technology attracted $42 billion in global venture capital in 2020, according to KPMG, and sparked 20 initial public offerings in that year alone. Fintech IPOs around that What you should know as the Fed gets closer to the peak of its rate-hiking cycle 06/14/2023 02:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to leave interest rates alone for the first time in 11 meetings raises hopes that it may be at least nearing the end of its rate-hiking campaign to cool inflation. That said, the Fed's policymakers indicated that they envision potentially Google should break up digital ad business over competition concerns, European regulators say 06/14/2023 12:41pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union regulators hit Google with fresh antitrust charges Wednesday, saying the only way to satisfy competition concerns about its lucrative digital ad business is by selling off parts of the tech giant's main moneymaker. The unprecedented decision to push for such a breaku German curator on a mission to return silver heirlooms stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis 06/13/2023 10:44am • MUNICH (AP) — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jewish families during How to Find Last-Minute Cruise Deals in 2023 06/12/2023 08:00pm • Cruising is back -- in a big way -- after all the turmoil and shutdowns in the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Cruise Lines International Association's 2023 State of the Cruise Industry report, the intent to cruise is higher now than it was in December 2019, before the pandemic. In 'The Blue Caftan,' Moroccan film director tackles LGBTQ+ love and celebrates embroidery craft 06/07/2023 11:03pm • As Mina gets increasingly sick, her body withering away, her husband dotes on her: He washes her hair, helps her change, brings the sweetness of a fruit to her lips. But underneath the genuinely tender moments shared by this on-screen Moroccan couple simmers a longing — of a forbidden kind. In her What Is Bright Line Eating? 06/07/2023 08:00pm • Some people looking to lose weight initially have success on a diet but eventually drift off the plan, and the weight piles back on. This yo-yo effect is common and is the reason why many dietitians say that diets don't work. One person, however, claims to have the solution to this ongoing problem, A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery. 06/06/2023 01:14pm • TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) — The wind had whipped the waves to nearly three times the woman's height when her panicked voice crackled over the phone. “Our boat has sunk!” Setera Begum shouted, as a storm threatened to spill her and around 180 others into the inky black sea south of Bangladesh. � NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 06/02/2023 01:46pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Nothing ‘secret’ about Arizona voting machine New details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP 06/02/2023 12:30am • NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his Manhattan jail cell with his hands over his ears, desperate to muffle the sound of a toilet that wouldn’t stop running. Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, jail officials observed in records newly ob 13 Best Places to Celebrate Juneteenth in 2023 06/01/2023 08:00pm • Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of Galveston, Texas, ending slavery in the state. This order came more than two years after President Abraham L Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/01/2023 01:23pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Frederick Co. sheriff seeks separate trial in Maryland machine gun conspiracy case 06/01/2023 09:43am • Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins wants to be tried separately from the Maryland gun dealer he's accused of conspiring with. Charles Austin "Chuck" Jenkins, 66, was indicted by a federal grand jury in April on charges of conspiracy and making false statements when he helped gun shop owner Ro Portland mulls ban on daytime camping amid sharp rise in homelessness 05/31/2023 09:29pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City Council members in Portland were considering on Wednesday whether to ban homeless camping during daytime hours in most public places, a move that aims to bring the city into compliance with a new state law and appease the growing number of residents frustrated by a deepe Corporate Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout 05/31/2023 08:24pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company's lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. The prot