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What Is the $1K Per Month in Retirement Rule? 11/20/2023 07:00pm • As you look toward retirement, you'll want to evaluate your options to create a steady income stream. This could come from Social Security benefits, retirement account distributions or a pension. Another popular income strategy involves using the $1,000 per month retirement rule. It means that for e 7 Best Money Market Funds for 2024 11/20/2023 07:00pm • As the year draws to a close, investors are navigating a new market dynamic shaped by the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to maintain the policy interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5%. This shift marks a significant departure from the low-interest-rate environment of the previous decade and is prompti Encroaching wildfires prompt North Carolina and Tennessee campgrounds to evacuate 11/20/2023 06:11pm • PINNACLE, N.C. (AP) ��� Wildfires have prompted campgrounds in North Carolina and Tennessee to evacuate starting Sunday while firefighters prepared for high winds and low humidity on Monday, though officials hoped for some help from expected rain. The National Weather Service's office in Morristown, Taylor Swift's Rio tour marred by deaths, muggings and a dangerous heat wave 11/20/2023 05:26pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� The deaths of two people, muggings and a dangerous heat wave left legions of Taylor Swift's Brazilian fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar's Eras Tour, which concludes Monday night. Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem Santos, 2 The leader of a Dutch far-right party gets assaulted with a beer bottle 2 days before election 11/20/2023 02:22pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The leader of a far-right Dutch populist party was hit on the head with a beer bottle Monday in an attack that took place two days before the Netherlands holds a general election. Thierry Baudet, leader of Forum for Democracy, was taken to a hospital in the northern c With the world's eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war 11/20/2023 10:08am • QUSRA, West Bank (AP) ��� When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants��� deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank. Overnight, the territory was closed off. Towns were raided, curfews imposed, teena Ahead of Dutch elections, food banks highlight the cost-of-living crisis, a major campaign theme 11/19/2023 08:02pm • VOORBURG, Netherlands (AP) ��� Cans of fish, jars of pasta sauce and bags of beans are stacked in blue crates. Meat, dairy and bread are kept cold in a huge freezer and a walk-in refrigerator in this affluent Dutch town. The supplies are on hand to feed the new poor in one of the richest nations in 7 Things Retirees Should Be Thankful for This Year 11/19/2023 07:00pm • This year, retirees and other investors have some things they can add to their gratitude list. If you have money in the market, you're retired or you're saving for retirement, several positive developments, including a resilient market performance and changes to retirement withdrawal rules, may be a How to Invest $100K for Retirement 11/19/2023 07:00pm • Retiring on $100,000 isn't an easy task, but whether that amount can last you through retirement will largely depend on how you invest and when you retire. Consider these options to grow $100,000 for retirement: -- Invest in stocks and stock funds.-- Consider indexed annuities.-- Leverage T-bills, b Senegal opposition party sponsoring new candidate Faye after court blocks jailed leader Sonko's bid 11/19/2023 05:11pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� The party of jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko said Sunday it was sponsoring another candidate for the February presidential election, just days after Senegal's Supreme Court effectively blocked Sonko's own bid. Election authorities have refused to provide Sonko with the Trump picks up the endorsement of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to a US-Mexico border town 11/19/2023 03:53pm • EDINBURG, Texas (AP) ��� Donald Trump picked up the Texas governor���s endorsement Sunday during a visit to a U.S.-Mexico border town and promised that his hard-line immigration policies in a second presidential term would make Greg Abbott���s ���job much easier.��� ���You���ll be able to focus on The world's attention is on Gaza, and Ukrainians worry war fatigue will hurt their cause 11/18/2023 12:45am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� When Tymofii Postoiuk and his friends set up an online fundraising effort for Ukraine, donations poured in from around the globe, helping to purchase essential equipment for Ukrainian armed forces. As the fighting with Russia wore on and war fatigue set in, the donations slowe Live updates | Limited telecom services return to Gaza, but the UN lacks fuel for aid delivery 11/18/2023 12:22am • Limited phone and internet services began working again Friday across Gaza after fuel was delivered to restart generators that power the networks. Israel announced that it will allow two tanker trucks of fuel into Gaza each day for the United Nations and communication systems. That amount is half of El Salvador's Miss Universe pageant drawing attention at crucial moment for president 11/18/2023 12:09am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Video montages of sash-clad pageant contestants strolling beaches in El Salvador, snapping selfies in front of fireworks and wandering the streets of downtown San Salvador speckled social media this week as celebrations for the Miss Universe 2023 pageant kicked off in the Centra Philadelphia man sentenced to 8 years in drunken driving crash that killed promising GW business student 11/17/2023 08:29pm • The Philadelphia man who prosecutors said downed several drinks at a D.C. bar before getting behind the wheel last January and crashing into an Uber, killing a promising George Washington University business student, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Before handing down his sentence,