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5 Important Financial Goals for Teens 09/08/2024 08:00pm • Developing smart financial habits is not second nature. It takes time and practice to reach financial security, and the sooner you start, the better. For most teens, the stakes are lower -- you aren't losing a home or ruining your credit score. This allows young adults the space to learn how to mana A patient photographer captures ‘Deadpool’ in a spontaneous moment at Comic-Con 09/08/2024 05:31pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) — Matías Delacroix has been taking photos for The Associated Press since 2019. The award-winning Chilean photojournalist, currently based in Panama City, has covered some of the biggest events in Latin America for the AP. They include the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the a Villagers reluctant to say goodbye to one of Hong Kong's last squatter settlements 09/07/2024 11:16pm • HONG KONG (AP) — In months, Lo Yuet-ping will bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite buildings, contrasting Just how rare is a rare-colored lobster? Scientists say answer could be under the shell 09/07/2024 05:18pm • BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Orange, blue, calico, two-toned and ... cotton-candy colored? Those are all the hues of lobsters that have showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists' laboratories over the last year. The funky-colored crustaceans inspire headlines that trumpet th Recreational marijuana sales begin on North Carolina tribal land, drug illegal in state otherwise 09/07/2024 10:59am • CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) — The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians began selling marijuana and cannabis products to any adult 21 or over starting Saturday at its tribe-owned dispensary in North Carolina, where possession or use of the drug is otherwise illegal. A post on the Facebook page of Great Smoky Woman recounts praying after falling while trying to escape Colorado supermarket shooting 09/06/2024 09:27pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Elan Shakti was tired and had trouble walking but decided to go to the supermarket anyway to buy plants for a family mourning. But as she was buying them, Shakti, now 79, heard gunfire ring out and then someone yell for people to run. Shakti, who had recently been diagnosed w RFK Jr. notches wins in North Carolina and Michigan in his effort to get off ballots 09/06/2024 08:25pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scored a pair of legal victories Friday in the battleground states of North Carolina and Michigan, and a setback in Wisconsin, in his quest to get his name off of the ballots in some states after he suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Don Hawaii can ban guns on beaches, an appeals court says 09/06/2024 05:57pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii can enforce a law banning firearms on its world-famous beaches, a U.S. appeals court panel ruled Friday. Three Maui residents sued to block a 2023 state law prohibiting carrying a firearm on the sand and in other places deemed sensitive, including banks, bars and restaurants Shooter at Southern University frat party takes plea deal 09/06/2024 05:51pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for firing shots into a crowd at a 2022 fraternity party near Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge. As part of the agreement, prosecutors dropped 11 counts of attempted murder against Jaicedric Williams, 24, South Africa's justice minister denies corruption allegations against her in a mutual bank scandal 09/06/2024 10:54am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's justice minister on Friday denied corruption allegations against her related to a mutual bank scandal in which thousands of retirees lost their life savings. VBS Mutual Bank, which held the savings of retirees mostly from the northern Limpopo province and also un Former Taiwan presidential candidate suspected in corruption case is sent back to jail 09/05/2024 09:44pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former Taiwanese presidential candidate who was once mayor of the capital Taipei has been returned to custody as part of a sprawling corruption investigation. Ko Wen-je was returned to detention Thursday night in handcuffs after a legal panel overruled an earlier order all The psychology behind the pumpkin spice frenzy 09/05/2024 09:00pm • There’s two types of people in your neighborhood coffee shop right now: Those who can’t get enough of pumpkin spice lattes and those who want to hurl every pumpkin to the moon. That moneymaking "flavor of the week" has turned into months, and it seems to come around sooner and sooner every year. US government orders big US airlines to explain their frequent-flyer programs 09/05/2024 08:40pm • The Biden administration is examining the four largest U.S. airline frequent-flyer programs and how they devalue points that consumers have earned and frequently change the number of points or miles needed to book flights. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote to the CEOs of American, Delta, 12 Ways Retirees Spend Their Newfound Free Time 09/05/2024 08:00pm • Retirement offers the freedom to slow down, linger over daily activities and explore personal interests. According to 2023 data from the American Time Use Survey, retirees between ages 65 and 74 enjoy nearly seven hours of leisure time per day. This freedom allows them to pursue a variety of activit The Best Places to Live By the Beach in the U.S. in 2024-2025 09/05/2024 08:00pm • If you aspire to become a snowbird or daydream of beach strolls after work, you're probably interested in relocating to a beach town -- the question just may be, which coast? Whether you're considering the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf Coast, of the 150 top cities in the U.S., these coastal spots where