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Argentina reports its first single-digit inflation in 6 months as markets swoon and costs hit home 05/14/2024 05:59pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s monthly inflation rate eased sharply to a single-digit rate in April for the first time in half a year, data released Tuesday showed, a closely watched indicator that bolsters President Javier Milei’s severe austerity program aimed at fixing the count Vermont Legislature passes one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country 05/14/2024 04:32pm • The Democrat-controlled Vermont legislature has passed one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country aimed at cracking down on companies' use of online personal data, which would let consumers file civil lawsuits against companies that break certain privacy rules. However, Republican Go Home Depot's sales continue to soften in 2024 as inflation, delayed start to spring weigh on sales 05/14/2024 01:24pm • Home Depot's sales continued to soften in the first quarter as the nation's largest home improvement retailer was not only constrained by high mortgage rates and higher inflation for its customers, but it also had to deal with a delayed start to spring. Sales slipped 2.3% to $36.42 billion for the p Playing in the PGA Championship at 61, golf teacher's biggest lesson is the power of perseverance 05/14/2024 11:40am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — At first glance, it's easy to pick out the most unlikely entrant in golf's second major of the year. He's a 61-year-old club pro out of Oklahoma named Tracy Phillips. A deeper look at Phillips' pedigree suggests the only fluke about the 5-foot-4 golf instructor teeing it up Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon 05/14/2024 10:44am • ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — More than 300 Syrian refugees headed back home to Syria in a convoy on Tuesday, leaving two remote northeastern towns in crisis-stricken Lebanon where anti-refugee sentiment has been surging in recent months. Lebanese officials have long urged the international community to If your soil's no good or you don't have any, grow your garden plants in straw bales 05/14/2024 08:03am • If you’d like to install a raised bed but don’t have the resources to build one, you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales. It’s also a great option for those with poor soil or who don’t have a patch of dirt to call their own. Typically used as Halloween decoratio Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and 'King of the Bs,' dies at 98 05/13/2024 01:04pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his College football portal classes: Ole Miss all in, Ohio State shops high end. Prime restocks again 05/13/2024 11:43am • With the spring transfer portal window closed, a look at six college football teams that cleaned up in various ways. Mississippi In terms of quantity and quality, Ole Miss killed it. In a Nick Saban-less Southeastern Conference, the Rebels might be the best non-Georgia team in 2024. The Rebels had g This Week: Producer prices, inflation check, April retail sales 05/13/2024 03:10am • Inflation foresight The Labor Department releases producer price data for April on Tuesday. The producer price index measures inflation at the wholesale level, before businesses pass costs on to consumers. Wholesale inflation jumped in March, the latest sign that inflation pressures in the economy r Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers. Critics say it's designed to curb migration 05/13/2024 02:30am • EICHSFELD, Germany (AP) — When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register. Laca, 45 Chinese journalist imprisoned for her Covid reporting due to be released after four years. But will she be free? 05/13/2024 01:37am • Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese citizen journalist who has been behind bars for four years over her reporting on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is due to be released Monday after serving her sentence, according to supporters and a court verdict.Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the What Is Luxury Senior Living? 05/12/2024 08:00pm • The world of senior living is vast. With independent living, assisted living, memory care and others, there are many options to choose from. Some communities add another qualifier: the term "luxury." If you're asking what makes a community luxury and how much it might cost, read on. What Is Luxury S The 15 Best Baseball Stadium Trips 05/12/2024 08:00pm • Baseball is a classic American pastime. There's nothing like the roar of the crowd after a crack of the bat when a player sends a ball over the outfield fence. Whether you're hoping to visit every ballpark in Major League Baseball, following your home team on the road or just looking to enjoy an aft 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 A fire burns down a shopping complex housing 1,400 outlets in Poland's capital 05/12/2024 02:56pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area. The fire department sai