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Duty Free: Is It a Good Deal? 06/24/2024 08:00pm • When you're traveling internationally, duty-free shops may beckon. These brightly lit, beautifully displayed retailers are stocked with all kinds of things you may want to bring home. It's big business, too. According to a 2024 Coherent Market Insights report the duty free retailing market is projec Inflation Calculator: See How Much Inflation Is Costing You 06/24/2024 08:00pm • After sharply increasing in 2022, inflation has been moderating in the U.S. The increase in overall prices -- measured by the consumer price index -- was 9.1% for the 12 months ending June 2022. Comparatively, inflation is lower now -- the CPI increased by 3.3% over the 12 months ending in May 2024. In one affluent Atlanta suburb, Biden and Trump work to win over wary Georgia voters 06/24/2024 05:24pm • FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will meet for their first general election debate Thursday in Georgia, the battleground that yielded the closest 2020 margin of any state and became the epicenter of Trump’s efforts to overturn Biden’s election. Now A shooter who entered a Tennessee office building and caused a lockdown has died, police say 06/24/2024 05:19pm • CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect died and a neighborhood in Tennessee was locked down briefly Monday in response to reports of a shooter inside an office building near a shopping mall. Police in Chattanooga said reports about the man with a gun starting coming in just after 2 p.m. local time. � What is Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group that could go to all-out war against Israel? 06/24/2024 03:10pm • BEIRUT (AP) — After more than eight months of low-scale conflict, Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are threatening all-out war. The United States and the international community are lobbying for calm and hopeful for a diplomatic solution. They have not been successful so far and t Edmunds: The best performance cars for $65,000 06/24/2024 12:01pm • The $65,000 milestone might seem like an arbitrary price cap for a list of excellent performance cars, but look carefully and you’ll discover that it’s a sweet spot for some of today’s most compelling performance offerings. Look upmarket from here and you’ll quickly be shopping in six figure Aldi entering the Springfield game of musical grocery stores, filling multiple former tenant spaces 06/24/2024 11:46am • What may be the final stage of the yearslong game of musical grocery stores playing out in Springfield has begun with a new entrant: Aldi. General contractor L.F. Jennings is seeking subcontractors for a multistage project at the Rappaport-managed West Springfield Shopping Center on Rolling Road, t 'Hamster' crypto craze has taken Iran. It highlights economic malaise ahead of presidential election 06/24/2024 01:10am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Cab drivers and bikers tap away furiously on their mobile phones as they wait at red lights in the Iranian capital during an early June heatwave. Some pedestrians in Tehran are doing the same. They all believe they could get rich. The object of their rapt attent A Mexico City neighborhood keeps the iconic Volkswagen Beetle alive 06/24/2024 12:59am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Janette Navarro’s 1996 Volkswagen Beetle roars as it barrels up a steep hill overlooking concrete houses stacked like boxes on the outskirts of Mexico City. She presses her foot on the pedal, passes a lime green Beetle like hers, then one marked with red and yellow, then anoth It was meant to be a Christian utopia. Now this Nigerian community is helpless against rising seas 06/23/2024 08:53pm • AYETORO, Nigeria (AP) — The coastal Nigerian community of Ayetoro was founded decades ago and nicknamed “Happy City,” meant to be a Christian utopia that would be sinless and classless. But now its remaining residents can do little against the rising sea. Buildings have sunk into the Atlantic New Caledonia Indigenous independence leader transferred to mainland France for pretrial detention 06/23/2024 08:28pm • NICE, France (AP) — A pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia was transferred to a jail in mainland France to await trial on charges relating to two weeks of unrest in May that left nine people dead, the public prosecutor in the territory said Sunday. Christian Te 9 Dividend Aristocrat Stocks to Buy Now 06/23/2024 08:00pm • When a company can avoid cutting its dividend even during economic recessions and crises, investors know it is a reliable stock. There's a special breed of dividend stocks that takes reliability, consistency and dependability to another level, however. The Dividend Aristocrats are a group of 67 S&am Under curfew, Ukrainians mark midsummer with bonfire jumping at a festival with pagan roots 06/23/2024 04:57pm • KHOTIV, Ukraine (AP) — Despite war-time restrictions, Ukrainians marked midsummer with festivals that featured frenetic folk dancing, flower decoration and jumping over bonfires. The festival of Ivana Kupala on Sunday was held as Ukrainians start their third summer at war, with Kyiv and other citi Bitter political fight in Bolivia is paralyzing the government as unrest boils over economic crisis 06/23/2024 12:01am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Protesters streamed into Bolivia's capital, throats hoarse from chanting and feet blistered from a week of walking along the national highway. The throngs of street vendors in the South American country’s vast informal work force ended their nearly 100-kilometer (60-mile) Taylor Swift kicks off UK Eras shows as some fans wonder if singer is ready to say 'So long, London' 06/22/2024 01:41pm • LONDON (AP) — Taylor Swift fans enjoy parsing the singer-songwriter’s lyrics for references to her romantic life and insights into her state of mind. But the pop superstar’s fans in the U.K. didn’t have to listen closely to her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” to get the se