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Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris resume campaigning after apparent assassination attempt 09/17/2024 08:15pm • The presidential campaign is moving forward after a second apparent attempt on Donald Trump ���s life over the weekend. Trump was heading to Michigan on Tuesday for a town hall while Vice President Kamala Harris answered questions at a forum for Black journalists in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, authori What Do Lower Interest Rates Mean for Retirees? 09/17/2024 08:00pm • With the Federal Reserve target rate now down to 4.75% to 5%, a decrease of a half-point, many retirees may need to take a fresh look at their portfolios. "A lower rate may impact an individual's income generated by those investments and could require them to step outside their risk tolerance to gra College Scholarships for Autistic Students 09/17/2024 08:00pm • Scholarships for autistic students can ease the financial burden of college costs. Knowing where to find these specialized scholarships is an important step in finding that crucial support. "While any family with financial need can benefit from scholarships and grants, they can be particularly impor After shooting at Georgia high school, students will return next week for half-days 09/17/2024 07:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Students at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta will return to campus for half-days beginning next week, Barrow County school officials announced, after a Sept. 4 shooting that killed four people and injured nine others. The school system northeast of Atlanta said the Winder high Election officials prepare for threats with panic buttons, bulletproof glass 09/17/2024 05:31pm • MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) ��� The election director in Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb where votes will be fiercely contested in this year's presidential race, recently organized a five-hour training session. The focus wasn't solely on the nuts and bolts of running this year's election. Instead, it brought Harris condemns Trump's rhetoric, says voters should make sure he 'can't have that microphone again' 09/17/2024 04:57pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday decried Republican Donald Trump for inflammatory rhetoric about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and on other topics, saying voters should make sure he ���can���t have that microphone again.��� Sitting down for a rare extended campaign inte Trump will soon be able to sell shares in Truth Social's parent company. What's at stake? 09/17/2024 04:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For all the debate about just how rich former President Donald Trump is, one thing is clear: His ownership stake in Trump Media & Technology Group makes him a billionaire. The company behind the Truth Social platform is worth more than $3 billion on Wall Street, and Trump owns Speaker Johnson sets House vote on government funding bill after a one-week postponement 09/17/2024 03:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him to pull the bill from consideration last week. The bill includes a require Cyprus approves electricity cable to link its power grid with Greece's 09/17/2024 02:10pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� Cyprus has given the green light for construction of a 1.9 billion euro ($2.1 billion) undersea electricity cable linking its grid with Greece's, aiming to sharply reduce electricity bills and end its energy isolation, the country's energy minister said Tuesday. Minister Geo EU chief unveils her new team with women in top roles in right-leaning Commission 09/17/2024 01:38pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen put women in many of the top roles on her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc on Tuesday, despite the reluctance of many EU member states to give in to her demand for gender parity. Von der Leyen named only two m TikTok and the U.S. face off in court over law that could lead to a ban on the popular platform 09/17/2024 11:36am • TikTok faced off with the U.S. government in federal court on Monday, arguing a law that could ban the platform in a few short months is unconstitutional while the Justice Department said it is needed to eliminate a national security risk posed by the popular social media company. In a more than tw Florida sheriff fed up with school shooting hoaxes posts boy's mugshot to social media 09/17/2024 11:27am • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he's posting the mugshot of any offender on social media. Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen UN experts decry worsening repression in Venezuela after contested election 09/17/2024 10:25am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Independent U.N. human rights experts said in a new report Tuesday that their findings show Venezuela's government has intensified the use of ���harshest and most violent" tools of repression following the disputed July presidential election. The official results of the July 28 vote The new hard-right Dutch coalition pledges stricter limits on asylum 09/17/2024 09:46am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The new hard-right Dutch government pledged Tuesday to launch stricter policies to hold back or kick out migrants who don���t qualify for asylum, as the king laid out the administration���s plans in a speech to open the parliamentary year. Dutch King Willem-Alexander, 5 things to know about the apparent assassination attempt on Trump 09/17/2024 08:46am • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump wasn���t harmed in Sunday���s apparent assassination attempt as he golfed near his Florida club. But the second attack on his life in barely two months is likely to further unsettle an election cycle already marked by upheaval. The man sus