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The best African music performance Grammy is new. Its global appeal is not 02/02/2024 01:00pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� From an electrifying and colorful musical performance at the FIFA World Cup to a new Grammy Awards category, African music genres and talents are reaching audiences and dance floors across the globe in a breakthrough for an industry that has long endured structural challenges Singaporeans bemoan U.S. Senator's 'ignorant' grilling of TikTok CEO 02/02/2024 07:29am • SINGAPORE (AP) ��� After a U.S. senator grilled the Singaporean CEO of TikTok about his nationality and suggested he was affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, Singaporeans are complaining about ignorant ��� or even racist ��� views of their country. TikTok CEO Shou Chew and executives of othe HSA and Medicare: Using HSA To Pay for Medicare Premiums 02/01/2024 07:00pm • If you're interested in learning about a triple-tax benefit plan, then look no further than health savings accounts, also referred to as HSAs for short. HSAs established by the Internal Revenue Service provide three distinct tax advantages for Medicare-eligible individuals: -- Your contributions red 10 Common Scams That Target Seniors and How to Avoid Them 02/01/2024 07:00pm • Every year, thieves target individuals to get access to their personal information and money, and they tend to zero in on older people. Victims of elder financial exploitation lose $28.3 billion annually, according to a 2023 BankSafe report by AARP. If you haven't yet been approached by a scammer, y Slain judge���s wife urges Md. lawmakers to 'make things right' by protecting judicial officials 02/01/2024 09:52am • Stephanie Wilkinson told Maryland lawmakers in Annapolis Wednesday that personal protection for judges would prevent families from enduring future heartache. As she dabbed a tissue underneath her nose, Wilkinson said a man began to search online for her family���s address in July. Three months la Kremlin foe Navalny urges election day protests in Russia next month by voting at a specific hour 02/01/2024 08:52am • Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Thursday urged Russians to show their protest of President Vladimir Putin during next month's presidential balloting by voting at a specific time on election day. In a social media statement relayed from the Arctic penal colony where he is being held, N Israel and Lebanon are prepping for a war neither wants, but many fear it's becoming inevitable 02/01/2024 05:14am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon���s Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel���s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. Such a war could be the most destructive either side has ever ex A Hong Kong court convicts 4 people of rioting over the storming of the legislature in 2019 protests 02/01/2024 01:46am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A Hong Kong court convicted four people Thursday for rioting over the storming of the city's legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests more than four years ago. The break-in on July 1 in 2019 ��� the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony's El Salvador's Bukele has everyone's attention as he seeks reelection in spite of the constitution 02/01/2024 12:00am • SAN SALVADOR (AP) ��� Love him or hate him, all eyes are on Nayib Bukele. To many, El Salvador���s president is a national hero who took on the country's violent gangs with an unrelenting hand. To others, the populist is a 21st century autocrat who has committed mass human rights abuses and has alte 8 Reddit Stocks Trending Now 01/31/2024 07:00pm • Bored and sometimes desperate during the pandemic, a new generation of investors banded together on social media to swap war stories -- and sometimes, band together to make big bets. For better or for worse, these folks on Reddit and other social media platforms forever changed how Wall Street works Michigan school shooter's mom was worried he might do 'something dumb,' friend says 01/31/2024 06:35pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) ��� Hours before a 2021 mass school shooting in Michigan, the mother of a teenager who killed four students said she was worried that he was "going to do something dumb,��� a man who had a close relationship with her testified Wednesday. Brian Meloche said Jennifer Crumbley expla Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion, judge rules 01/31/2024 07:52am • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� Elon Musk is not entitled to a landmark compensation package awarded by Tesla���s board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion, a Delaware judge ruled Tuesday. The ruling by Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick comes more than five years after a sharehol Finland is hit by massive strikes protesting plans to cut social security and change how pay is set 01/31/2024 06:54am • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Labour unions in Finland went on strike Wednesday, starting a three-days labor action that will affect up to 300,000 workers and severely disrupt the daily life. Trade unions are protesting revisions to labor market legislation and social security cuts proposed by the center-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets temporary reprieve from testifying in lawsuit against him 01/30/2024 08:34pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to temporarily halt state Attorney General Ken Paxton's scheduled testimony in a whistleblower lawsuit that was at the heart of the impeachment charges brought against him in 2023, delaying what could have been the Republican���s first Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent 01/30/2024 07:43pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on Tuesday, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. The new law could expand the government's ability to prosecute residents for o