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Tim Scott endorses Donald Trump ahead of New Hampshire Republican primary 01/19/2024 11:02pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina endorsed Donald Trump Friday ahead of next week���s New Hampshire primary, the latest sign the Republican party is rallying around the former president's candidacy after his historic Iowa win. The decision marks a major blow to Scott's fellow S Biden is skipping New Hampshire's primary. One of his opponents says he's as elusive as Bigfoot 01/19/2024 01:33pm • PETERBOROUGH, N.H. (AP) ��� Trying to upset President Joe Biden in New Hampshire's primary, Democratic challenger Dean Phillips is running a TV ad across the state comparing him to Bigfoot ��� the argument being both are hard to find. ���I���m something of an expert on elusive creatures," a man dres At Davos, leaders talked big on rebuilding trust. Can the World Economic Forum make a difference? 01/19/2024 09:00am • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ��� Business and political elites descended on the Swiss Alpine snows of Davos to suss out ���rebuilding trust��� in a splintering world. If there���s any takeaway from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting ��� boldly touting that theme ��� it���s that we still have a lon Sri Lanka has arrested tens of thousands in drug raids criticized by UN human rights body 01/19/2024 04:59am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lankan authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs, and vowed to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the ���heavy-handed��� operation. Since the operation began in December, heavily ar FBI reports big rise in ���sextortion��� ��� and the targets and motivation might surprise you 01/18/2024 09:35pm • The FBI is out with a warning to parents about a rise in sextortion crimes that have been reported in recent years. But more and more often, it���s not sexual gratification that���s behind the demand for pictures, and it���s not always young girls who are being pressured into providing more graphic Lawsuit in Chicago is the latest legal fight over Texas moving migrants to U.S. cities 01/18/2024 09:02pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A Texas transportation company is taking the nation���s third largest city to federal court, ratcheting up a legal battle over the migrant crisis that���s left U.S. cities struggling for more than a year. The lawsuit against Chicago comes amid a larger political battle involving fed How watermelon imagery, a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians, spread around the planet 01/18/2024 08:51pm • Over the past three months, on banners and T-shirts and balloons and social media posts, one piece of imagery has emerged around the world in protests against the Israel-Hamas war: the watermelon. The colors of sliced watermelon ��� with red pulp, green-white rind and black seeds ��� are the same a Can I Get a Business Credit Card Without a Business? 01/18/2024 07:00pm • Business credit cards offer convenience as well as unique perks and rewards, and they help keep business expenses separate from personal ones. To carry a business credit card, you may not need to be the owner of a formal business -- everything from freelancing to house-sitting can help you qualify. Why I Don't Regret Retiring by FIRE 01/18/2024 07:00pm • At the age of 33, Mathew Pezon of Easton, Pennsylvania, achieved FIRE, which stands for financial independence, retire early. The FIRE movement involves saving enough to step away from a job before the age of 66 or 67, which for many is the full retirement age for Social Security benefits. In Pezon' What Can You Do With a Political Science Degree? 01/18/2024 07:00pm • Earning a degree in political science opens doors to jobs in both the public and private sectors, allowing graduates to use their knowledge, research abilities, and analytical and communication skills to collect and make sense of data in a range of jobs, from working with political campaigns to exam Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom 01/18/2024 06:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� With former President Donald Trump no longer in the courtroom Thursday, a columnist who accused him of sexually attacking her concluded her testimony with an emphatic denial that she had benefited from the publicity that followed the allegations. A Trump attorney tried to show the House GOP is moving swiftly toward Mayorkas' impeachment as Senate focuses on a border security deal 01/18/2024 05:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Laying the groundwork for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a House committee on Thursday heard from parents whose tearful testimony sought to link government border policy to their daughters' deaths and from a law professor warning off the effort The federal debt tops $34 trillion and some in Congress want a commission to find ways to tackle it 01/18/2024 05:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation���s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress won approval Thursday from a House committee. House Republicans are making the bill a priority, and the chairman of the House Budget Committee said � GOP lawmakers approve a 'flat' income tax for Kansas, but a governor's veto looms 01/18/2024 04:35pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers in Kansas on Thursday passed a broad package of tax cuts promoted as widespread relief that the Democratic governor is likely to veto because she says it favors the wealthy and threatens the state���s budget in the future. The opposing viewpoints kept the t The Vatican's top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order 01/18/2024 10:16am • ROME (AP) ��� Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches ��� and doesn���t exploit ��� people���s lives. Benanti is the Vatican's go-t