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Trump announces outlines of health care plan he wants Congress to consider 01/15/2026 07:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly t Credit Privacy Number -- More Like Credit Piracy 01/15/2026 07:00pm • You may have come across credit privacy numbers, or CPNs, while scrolling through your feed lately. They've increased in popularity, which isn't necessarily surprising considering the current state of the economy. A CPN looks just like a Social Security number and can be enticing to consumers with b 5 Best Gold ETFs to Buy for 2026 01/15/2026 07:00pm • When gold is glittering, miners can shine even brighter. Gold has had a strong start to the year, with futures traded in New York up about 6% year to date. Gold miners have done even better, with the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index of precious metals mining companies up about 15%. Gold mining sto Senate passes more spending bills, but Homeland Security dispute looms 01/15/2026 05:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is halfway home in approving government funding for the current budget year that began Oct. 1 after the Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a three-bill package. Now comes the hard part. Lawmakers still must negotiate a spending bill for the Department of Homeland S 83-year-old man convicted of killing Uber driver who he wrongly thought was scamming him 01/15/2026 11:28am • SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A jury convicted an 83-year-old Ohio man of murder in the shooting of an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both. William J. Brock fatally shot the driver after wrongly assuming she was in on a plot to get $12,000 Moscow agrees with Trump that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal, the Kremlin says 01/15/2026 10:46am • Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump’s view that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal to end the almost four years of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbor, a Kremlin official said Thursday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, “Yes, we can agree with it, it’s indeed so.” Hi One Tech Tip: Californians have a new privacy tool for deleting their data 01/15/2026 01:00am • New year, new privacy rules. At least for Californians. Since Jan. 1, residents of the Golden State can use a new tool to request removal of their personal information held by more than 500 data brokers. The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP, is a simple-to-use tool that lets people sub Virginia House Democrats advance four constitutional amendments on opening day of 2026 session 01/14/2026 05:38pm • Virginia House Democrats wasted little time flexing their new majority on the opening day of the 2026 General Assembly, pushing through four proposed constitutional amendments Wednesday aimed at reshaping some of the state’s most consequential political and civil rights debates — including one t Food companies are targeting users of weight-loss drugs with 'GLP-1 Friendly' labels 01/14/2026 09:42am • Meals and snacks with “GLP-1 Friendly” labels on the packaging are becoming more common in U.S. supermarkets as a growing number of Americans try obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound to lose weight. But the labels aren’t regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, unlike the popular How to Conduct Your Own Portfolio Makeover 01/14/2026 06:00am • If you’d like to do a thorough review of your portfolio and plan, here are the key steps to take. I recommend doing them over a series of sessions, not all at once. Step 1: Gather your documentation This could be your current investment statements, plus Social Security and pension. Pro tip: Set u Olympic legends reunite in Los Angeles to kick off ticket registration for 2028 Games 01/13/2026 11:20pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nadia Comaneci, Apolo Ohno, Bart Conner and Cullen Jones were among the more than 300 Olympic and Paralympic athletes who gathered Tuesday under the peristyle at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where the Summer Games will open in 2028. In an effort to promote Wednesday's regi Microsoft's Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to 'pay our way' for AI data centers amid rising opposition 01/13/2026 09:42am • It won’t be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing on local reservoirs. Microsoft is trying anyway. The software giant's pr ICE tensions could jeopardize DHS funding 01/13/2026 04:38am • Congressional Democrats are threatening to hold up funding for the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of a deadly shooting of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minnesota and growing tensions linked to immigration enforcement. DHS funding, which includes ICE, US accuses Russia of 'dangerous and inexplicable escalation' of war in Ukraine as Trump seeks peace 01/12/2026 07:16pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States accused Russia on Monday of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of its nearly four-year war in Ukraine at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations toward peace. U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations Tammy Bruce Google's corporate parent joins $4 trillion club as investors continue to bet on AI breakthroughs 01/12/2026 04:46pm • Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that's become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race. Alphabet reached the threshold just four months after Google dodged th