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How to Beat Shrinkflation 02/12/2024 07:00pm • If you're spending the same amount as always but seem to be running out of product much faster, odds are you're right. Shrinkflation is a way for companies to avoid raising prices but still turn a profit. Rather than charge more, they give less. While this method can give the illusion that prices ar How to Decide Where to Attend Medical School 02/12/2024 07:00pm • Imagine that after interviews with several medical schools, you receive a letter of acceptance -- a tremendous accomplishment worth celebrating. If you're among the most fortunate students, you will have more than one medical school from which to choose, which presents a challenge: which one to choo Law enforcement in schools dominates 1st day of the Minnesota Legislature's 2024 session 02/12/2024 04:47pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Legislature convened Monday with lawmakers fast-tracking legislation to fix a law enacted last year that limits the powers of police who work in schools to restrain disruptive students. The change was one of several restrictions on the use of force passed in th New gun laws take effect on one-year anniversary of Michigan State University shooting 02/12/2024 04:32pm • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz spent the past year trying to suppress the images, seared into his memory, of the gunman who entered his classroom at Michigan State University, killed two of his students and left others with critical wounds. He expects a flood of emotions Mexican police arrest members of drug gang behind the alleged killing of 8 people in Cancun 02/12/2024 03:39pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday they have arrested six members of a drug gang in the Mexican resort of Cancun that allegedly killed and hacked up five people with a machete, and dumped three other victims in a shallow grave. The gang, which prosecutors say also engaged in extortion, was Spring training preview: The Dodgers won the offseason. Will it buy them a championship? 02/12/2024 11:31am • PHOENIX (AP) — Money can buy lots of things, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a pair of Japanese superstars that set the Los Angeles Dodgers back more than $1 billion. Now the journey begins to see if it'll buy them a championship. Major League Baseball's spring training opens for 2 Explosive experts in Greece defuse a parcel bomb sent to a judge 02/12/2024 09:06am • THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Explosives experts in northern Greece on Monday safely defused a parcel bomb that had been delivered to a senior judge at her courthouse office, police said. The judge in the country's second-largest city of Thessaloniki found the package suspicious and didn't open it, An Italian flourless chocolate cake hits the right sweet notes for Valentine's Day 02/12/2024 08:33am • Chocolate is inextricably linked to Valentine’s Day, and much of it comes packaged in heart-shaped boxes. For something different, consider making a torta Barozzi, a sumptuous and sophisticated flourless chocolate cake that’s often imitated but rarely duplicated. Traditionally, torta Barozzi is Jim Nantz and Tony Romo finally get a great game in their 3rd Super Bowl for CBS 02/12/2024 02:23am • The first two Super Bowls that Jim Nantz and Tony Romo worked together for CBS lacked drama. Now, both get to say they broadcast one of the best finishes in the game’s history. “What a thrill to be able to say that we witnessed an overtime Super Bowl game and what will go down in history as one 7 of the Best Long-Term Stocks to Buy Now 02/11/2024 07:00pm • There are many good reasons to buy and hold stocks for the long term rather than actively trade the market. Perhaps the best is that, despite occasional bear markets and periods of volatility, good-quality stocks tend to rise over the long run. Having a long-term time horizon allows investors to ben Senators push forward with Ukraine aid package as their leaders say the world is watching 02/11/2024 05:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As former President Donald Trump and a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the Senate's leaders argued in strong terms on Sunday that the money is crucial to pushing back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintaining America's global standing. In New Mexico budget bill would found literacy institute, propel housing construction and conservation 02/10/2024 07:25pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s strategy for spending and investing a multibillion-dollar annual surplus linked closely to oil production came into sharper focus Saturday, as a legislative panel advanced an annual spending plan toward a Senate floor vote. Legislators are tapping the brakes on Elon Musk's Neuralink moves legal home to Nevada after Delaware judge invalidates his Tesla pay deal 02/10/2024 01:03pm • Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down Musk's $55.8 billion pay package as CEO of Tesla. Neuralink, which has its physical headquarters in Fremont, California, became a Nevada company on Thursday, a An unused rail corridor in the Shenandoah Valley sparks a fight over what’s next 02/10/2024 07:35am • Two groups in the Shenandoah Valley are at odds over what to do with an unused railway after the General Assembly pledged $35 million toward its conversion into a rail trail. The nearly 50-mile rail corridor, which was first established in the 1850s, runs from Front Royal to the town of Broadway The president jailed 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children are paying the consequences 02/09/2024 10:48pm • SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) — Tears welled in Alex's eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador's police as she walked to work in a clothing factory. “I feel very alone,” the 10