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Kate Ashford: 5 financial steps to take before marrying later in life 02/05/2024 08:54am • Getting married when you���re an older adult comes with complications: You and your spouse may have assets from years of working, and you may have children from previous relationships. Tying the knot could affect your Social Security benefits if you���re widowed or divorced. You will need to update Senators release a border and Ukraine deal but the House speaker declares it 'dead on arrival' 02/04/2024 11:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senators on Sunday released a highly anticipated $118 billion package that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, but it quickly ran into a wall of opposition from top House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson. The p Independent Living for Seniors 02/04/2024 07:00pm • For older adults, living independently for as long as possible is typically the goal. They want to remain in their own homes and take care of themselves. However, for many seniors, there comes a time when they would like to shed some daily responsibilities or would prefer to have more company. That' Namibia president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies. He pushed for Africa on world stage 02/04/2024 11:33am • WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) ��� Namibia's president and founding prime minister Hage Geingob died Sunday at age 82 while receiving treatment for cancer, and the southern African nation quickly swore in his deputy to complete the term in office. Geingob played a central role in what has become one of Afri How Donald Trump went from a diminished ex-president to the GOP's dominant front-runner 02/04/2024 07:49am • NASHUA, N.H. (AP) ��� When he left the White House, Donald Trump was a pariah. After years of bending Washington to his will with a single tweet, Trump was diminished. He was a one-term president rejected by voters and then shunned by large swaths of his party after his refusal to accept his defeat Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves' trial for alleged sexual assault to start Monday in Barcelona 02/04/2024 12:03am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� After spending a year in a Spanish jail, Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves will go on trial this week for allegedly sexually assaulting a young woman at a Barcelona night club. Alves, a former Barcelona player, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman on the night of Dec. Hamas demands Israel release Marwan Barghouti, a man some Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela 02/03/2024 03:56pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� He's viewed by some Palestinians as their Nelson Mandela, and he's a prime candidate to become their president in the future. He's also the highest-profile prisoner held by Israel. Now Marwan Barghouti's freedom is at stake in cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel. Hama Paris police say suspect in train station attack that injured 3 may have mental health issues 02/03/2024 11:12am • PARIS (AP) ��� A man armed with a knife and a hammer wounded three people Saturday in an early morning attack at the bustling Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, another nerve-rattling security incident in the Olympics host city before the Summer Games open in six months. The 31-year-old man, carry Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone 02/03/2024 10:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary ��� a ���Boy Scout��� ��� who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything Md. Senate panel quickly moves protection of personal information bill to full chamber 02/03/2024 06:43am • Just two days after the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard emotional testimony from the widow of Washington County Circuit judge Andrew F. Wilkinson about her husband���s murder, the panel voted Friday to advance legislation that would protect personal information of judicial offic Live updates | Hamas is expected to respond soon to a proposal that includes hostage releases 02/02/2024 07:06pm • A senior Hamas official said Friday the group will respond ���very soon��� to a proposal that includes extended pauses in Gaza fighting and phased exchanges of Hamas-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. Hamas and other militants in Gaza are holding dozens of hostages, after having ab Biden is left with few choices as immigration takes center stage in American politics 02/02/2024 05:27pm • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor���s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has changed in three years. Biden, Can this new tech help stop deepfakes from going viral? 02/02/2024 04:58pm • It takes just a few minutes for a video posted online to go viral, whether it���s true or not. And advances in technology, including the creation of what���s commonly know as ���deepfake��� videos, have the ability to shape opinions, emotions and even reality for people tricked into believing someth Senators reach a deal on border policy bill. Now it faces an uphill fight to passage 02/02/2024 04:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senate negotiators on Friday reached a deal on a proposal to overhaul the asylum system at the U.S. border with Mexico, clearing the way for Democratic and Republican Senate leaders to begin the difficult task of convincing Congress to pass a national security package that will i Towering over the Grammys is a Los Angeles high-rise tagged with 27 stories of graffiti 02/02/2024 02:29pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development. The vandalism is the latest twist in the saga of the three-tower project across the street from where the Grammy Awards will be hosted Sunday,