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One Tech Tip: Spend quality time with loved ones, not a screen, over the holidays 12/18/2025 07:20am • The Christmas holiday season is a time to step back from the busy pace of modern life and connect with our nearest and dearest instead of screens, apps and chatbots. Here are some suggestions on how to unplug from the online world for the next few weeks as you sit down for a festive meal, exchange An uninhabited Scottish isle is home to the golden granite used in Olympic curling stones 12/18/2025 07:18am • AILSA CRAIG, Scotland (AP) — If you’re looking to strike gold — silver or bronze, too — look to Ailsa Craig. This uninhabited isle 10 miles (16 kilometers) off the coast of southwest Scotland is the source of the super-dense granite used to make curling stones for the Winter Olympics. Jim En Efforts to reconnect Americans face challenges in a lonely time 12/18/2025 07:06am • It's been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon. By any name, it refers to Americans' growing social disconnection by many measures. Americans are less likely to join civic groups, unions and churches than in recent generations. They have fewer frie Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation 12/18/2025 07:02am • Across the country, small groups are working to rebuild social connection amid rising loneliness in their own modest ways. It sounds simple — building relationships. But they’re up against powerful cultural forces. By many measures, Americans are socially disconnected at historic levels. They're Why I have a financial planner 12/18/2025 06:00am • It might surprise people that my husband and I pay a financial planner, given that I spend a lot of time on financial, tax, and investment planning at work. However, hiring a planner has delivered a return that can’t be quantified: peace of mind. Here are some key reasons we pay for financial adv These Credit Cards Offer the Chance at World Cup Tickets 12/17/2025 07:00pm • Are you a soccer fan looking to score tickets to the 2026 FIFA World Cup? For a limited time, new applicants approved for the Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card or the Bank of America® Unlimited Cash Rewards credit card will have special access to purchase up to two tickets -- bu Chevrolet Traverse vs Ford Explorer 12/17/2025 09:38am • Chevrolet versus Ford. Regardless of the vehicle type, car shoppers often find themselves comparing choices from these iconic American brands. And if you’re thinking about buying a new three-row crossover SUV, you could very well end up cross-shopping the 2026 Chevrolet Traverse and 2026 Ford Expl Millions are pledged to a Syrian Australian man who stopped a gunman and became a national hero 12/17/2025 06:34am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Like many Australians strolling at Bondi Beach on long, warm summer evenings, Ahmed al Ahmed just wanted a cup of coffee with a friend. Around him, a bloody massacre erupted as two gunmen targeted Jews during Hanukkah festivities at a park close to the shore. Soon al Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone's throw from his grave at the Vatican 12/17/2025 05:19am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope. Seven years on, the man’s likeness has gone on display in the Vatican, a reunion of s Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts 12/17/2025 01:38am • UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — In moments when she is alone, when there is a break in the beatings from her husband, the girl cries for the school that was once her place of peace in a world that has otherwise offered her none. Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father in 201 Brown University shooting leaves students, community frustrated with official response 12/16/2025 07:00pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The ongoing effort to find a man who walked onto Brown University ’s campus during a busy exam season and shot nearly a dozen students in a crowded lecture hall has raised questions about the school's security systems and the urgency of the investigation itself. A day aft What Is Earnest Money? 12/16/2025 07:00pm • Earnest money is a "good faith" deposit the homebuyer provides with an offer, to show the seller an intent to follow through on a home purchase. The funds are typically held in an escrow account until closing. If you haven't budgeted for an earnest money deposit, this expense may come as a surprise. Australia to hold funerals for the 15 victims of an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach 12/16/2025 06:36pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia prepared for the funerals on Wednesday for some of the 15 victims of an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, an attack that police said was inspired by the Islamic State group. The victims were between 10 and 87 ye Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in 2 deaths 12/16/2025 05:41pm • SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in the deaths of a man who disappeared in 2023 and a child who died in 2010. Shelley “Kat” Martin, 62, who was described as a leader and “prophetess” of His Way Spirit Led Assembli Retail sales unchanged in October hurt in part by a decline in auto sales 12/16/2025 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) — Sales at U.S. retailers and restaurants were unchanged in October from September as consumers moderated their spending amid worries about higher prices and other economic uncertainties after splurging over the summer. But a big factor dragging down the figure was a 1.6% drop in sal