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Trump Media and Technology Group posts more than $300 million net loss in first public quarter 05/20/2024 05:36pm • SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of former President Donald Trump's social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter, according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company. For the three-month period that ended March 31, The Latest | Iran's president, foreign minister and others die in helicopter crash 05/20/2024 03:13pm • Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region in the country’s northwest, state media reported. State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash Sunda New York-Dublin video link is back up after shutdown for bad behavior 05/20/2024 11:41am • NEW YORK (AP) — A video link between New York City and Dublin that was shut down due to inappropriate behavior on both sides of the Atlantic has reopened with new security measures. The open-air video link between the two cities, which opened May 8 and was taken offline last week, reopened Sunday Nickel-rich Indonesia pitches EV battery plant plan to Elon Musk 05/20/2024 10:52am • DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top investment official said Monday that the government has proposed to Tesla CEO Elon Musk the construction of an electric vehicle battery plant in the nickel-rich country. The official spoke after Musk met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo while atten Taiwan's new President Lai in his inauguration speech urges China to stop its military intimidation 05/20/2024 10:47am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech Monday that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory. “I hope that China will face the re What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky-high again in latest survey of federal employees 05/20/2024 09:36am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that has struggled with low morale is showing improvement. Those are some of the highlights of a survey released Monday of more than a million federal workers. Mexico presidential candidates offer little detail to address country's violence in final debate 05/20/2024 04:28am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Less than two weeks from national elections, opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez hit away on security, one of Mexico's most stubborn challenges, in her final debate Sunday night with governing party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum. Sheinbaum, the frontrunner in the ra After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians 05/20/2024 01:13am • WILLIAMSTON, N.C. (AP) — Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently. So Europe's far right groups launch unofficial campaign for the European Union elections 05/19/2024 10:24pm • MADRID (AP) — Europe’s far-right political parties unofficially launched their campaign Sunday for European Union elections in Spain with strong messages against illegal migration and the bloc’s climate policy while declaring their support for Israel in its war against Hamas. French National Iran's hard-line president still missing after likely helicopter crash in foggy, mountainous region 05/19/2024 09:51pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urg 7 Best Funds to Hold in a Roth IRA 05/19/2024 08:00pm • The state of retirement security for many Americans is becoming increasingly concerning. For example, Social Security is now projected to only be able to pay out 76% of scheduled benefits starting in 2037 due to depletion of its trust fund reserves. This means that relying solely on Social Security Your Guide to Retirement Planning 05/19/2024 08:00pm • Getting ready for retirement requires consistent saving, prudent investing and strategizing to limit penalties and fees. You can build a nest egg faster if you take advantage of workplace retirement benefits and make optimum use of government programs, including Social Security and Medicare. Here's French security forces work to regain control of airport highway in violence-scorched New Caledonia 05/19/2024 12:56pm • Using armored vehicles and backhoes to shove aside charred barricades, French security forces worked Sunday to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous pe Slovak prime minister's condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid 05/19/2024 12:45pm • BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European U Congolese army says it has foiled a coup attempt. Self-exiled opposition figure threatens president 05/19/2024 12:29pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's army said it foiled a coup attempt early Sunday and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following attacks on the presidential palace and the residence of a close ally of Congo's president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At f