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Denmark to boost military spending to upgrade facilities 05/04/2023 08:09am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Denmark���s centrist government wants to spend 38 billion kroner ($5.6 billion) over the next decade to modernize military facilities, renovate shabby and dilapidated buildings, increase the number of soldiers and upgrade outdated computer systems. Acting Defense Minist Ban social media for kids? Fed-up parents in Senate say yes 05/04/2023 06:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Sen. Katie Britt says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama ��� at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, ���parent after parent��� came up to Rights groups call for probe into shooting of Lao activist 05/04/2023 01:02am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Human rights groups on Wednesday called for an investigation into the shooting of a political and social activist in Laos whose posts on Facebook criticized the Southeast Asian nation���s communist government. Initial reports, repeated by human rights groups, had said Anousa Luangsu Ukraine denies Russian claim Kyiv sent drones to hit Kremlin 05/03/2023 08:56pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin early Wednesday, calling it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and promising retaliation for what it termed a ���terrorist��� act. The Ukrainian president denied it, sayin How the gender pay gap affects women's retirement 05/03/2023 08:00pm • Historically, women have earned less than men on average, and this pattern impacts their retirement funds. The median 401(k) account for women is 65% lower than the balance for men, according to recent research from T. Rowe Price. The study found that women and men tend to have the same access to White House warns of recession as debt limit fight drags on 05/03/2023 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� White House economists on Wednesday warned of ���severe damage��� to the U.S. economy in the event of a debt default, warning that a prolonged default could cause 8.3 million job losses and the stock market to tumble 45%. But the new report from the Council of Economic Advisers s Business Highlights: Federal Reserve, McDonald's 05/03/2023 04:52pm • ___ Fed raises key rate but hints it may pause amid bank turmoil WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve reinforced its fight against high inflation by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point to the highest level in 16 years. But the Fed also signaled that it may now pause its streak of 10 Syrian refugees fearful as Lebanon steps up deportations 05/03/2023 07:55am • QAB ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) ��� Lebanese officials are cracking down on Syrian refugees against the backdrop of a worsening economic crisis and political stalemate, an escalation that has caused a panic among Syrians in the country. In recent weeks, the army has raided refugee camps and set up checkpoin UN chief urges all nations to stop targeting media and truth 05/02/2023 08:41pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The United Nations chief warned on the eve of World Press Freedom Day that the media is under attack in every corner of the world and urged all nations to stop the targeting of truth and those who report it. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the 50% increase in the k Should You Live in a Single-Family Home? 05/02/2023 08:00pm • Years ago, a New York City family was looking to change how they lived. For years, they'd enjoyed living in a full-service high-rise building in Manhattan with doormen, a live-in superintendent and many of the other conveniences and amenities that come with apartment living. After years of living cl 7 Best ESG Funds to Buy Now 05/02/2023 08:00pm • It's been called different names since investors started eschewing tobacco producers or companies involved with South African apartheid, but environmental, social and governance investing, or ESG, has been around for a while. Still, this type of investment has gained traction along with education ab Column: Sargeant returns home as F1's great American hope 05/02/2023 07:26pm • The first driver to be shown in the opening video for every Formula One race broadcast in the United States is not reigning champion Max Verstappen or seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton or even resurgent Fernando Alonso. No, it is a 22-year-old part-time surfer with four F1 races on his resume. He Officials move inmate stuck on US death row for years 05/02/2023 06:30pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Prison officials this week moved a former drug dealer convicted of killing a 16-year-old Texas girl off federal death row to serve a life sentence in another prison amid criticism he should have been moved years ago after a judge deemed him intellectually disabled and vacated his de Bear gives West Virginia principal a roaring wake-up call 05/02/2023 05:31pm • A black bear gave a West Virginia principal quite the wake-up call when it emerged ��� growling and roaring ��� from a dumpster outside an elementary school. Zela Elementary School principal James Marsh was surprised to discover the bear had somehow managed to get inside the dumpster over the weeken Editorial Roundup: United States 05/02/2023 05:07pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 26 The Washington Post on a U.S. Supreme Court code of ethics It was never realistic to expect that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would go before Congress for a clobbering over Supreme Court ethics rules. But citizens are ent