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Bebe Rexha ignites a '70s disco inferno with album ���Bebe��� 04/27/2023 06:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bebe Rexha���s eyes welled with tears after hearing Dolly Parton on her song ���Seasons��� for the first time. Recruiting the music icon for the record, which Rexha initially thought was a ���shot in the dark,��� was now reality. ���The first time listened to it, I cried,��� said t Business Highlights: Amazon results; CinemaCon 04/27/2023 04:45pm • ___ Amazon stocks surge after Q1 revenue, profit wins NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amazon on Thursday reported a slowdown in its cloud computing unit AWS, but stronger-than-expected revenue and profits for the first quarter sent its stocks higher in after-hours trading. The Seattle-based company said it pulled Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 04/27/2023 01:21pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Fed's Powell was tricked by fake call from Russia pranksters 04/27/2023 01:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which Powell appeared to discuss the economic impact of interest rate hikes. Videos of the phone call have bee US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown 04/27/2023 09:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1% annual pace as higher interest rates hammered the housing market and businesses reduced their inventories. Thursday���s estimate from the Commerce Department showed that the nation���s gross d How will we know if the US economy is in a recession? 04/27/2023 09:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The government���s report Thursday that the economy grew at a 1.1% annual rate last quarter signaled that one of the most-anticipated recessions in recent U.S. history has yet to arrive. Many economists, though, still expect a recession to hit as soon as the current April-June qu What Is the Average Retirement Savings Balance by Age? 04/26/2023 08:00pm • With pensions a rarity nowadays, it's up to workers to save for their own retirement. "I tell everyone to begin saving as early as possible," says Laurie Rowley, CEO and co-founder of Icon Savings Plan, which offers IRAs that can be funded through payroll deductions. But how much should you be savin What's in the GOP bill to lift debt limit, cut spending 04/26/2023 07:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans are trying to exact a price from Democrats for agreeing to increase the nation's borrowing authority and prevent the government from defaulting on the obligations it has accrued over decades. They're arguing for their priorities and going after President Joe Bid Haiti police condemn vigilante killings amid gang violence 04/26/2023 04:27pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Police pledged Wednesday to crack down on unrelenting gang violence that has paralyzed swaths of Haiti's capital, and pleaded with Haitians to end a string of grisly vigilante killings. The appeal came after an angry crowd on Monday killed at least 13 suspected gang me Senate talks terror prevention since Boston Marathon bombing 04/26/2023 03:37pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The chair of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on emerging national security threats said at a hearing Wednesday that much has been learned about enhancing emergency response and counterterrorism efforts in the decade since the Boston Marathon bombing, but more can still be done. Democrat Editorial Roundup: United States 04/26/2023 12:31pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 21 The Washington Post on the politicization of the education system The old-fashioned way states craft learning standards for grade-school students is slow and sure: Committee upon committee of stakeholders, from teachers to mat Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny says he may face life sentence 04/26/2023 11:07am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for life, as authorities set the stage for a new trial against the Kremlin's leading critic. Navalny said by video link from priso The best retirement planning books for 2023 04/26/2023 08:25am • There are many things you can learn by doing, but retirement shouldn't be one of them. Rather than waiting until you quit your job to figure out how you'll pay the bills and spend your time, start planning well in advance. If you aren't sure where to start, pick up one of these titles which are c When told of Kishida attack, safety chief kept eating eel 04/26/2023 04:37am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan's public safety chief has come under fire for his remark that he enjoyed eel rice so much that he kept eating after his agency informed him of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's narrow escape from a pipe bomb attack two weeks ago. Koichi Tani, chair of the National Public Safety Com As Assad returns to Arab fold, Syrians watch with hope, fear 04/26/2023 02:04am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Syrians living on opposite sides of the largely frozen battle lines dividing their country are watching the accelerating normalization of ties between the government of Bashar Assad and Syria's neighbors through starkly different lenses. In government-held Syria, residents struggling