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After AP investigation, family of missing students enrolls in school 05/06/2024 04:25pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Four months after The Associated Press wrote about an Atlanta family struggling to enroll in school, all of the children ��� in a complete turnaround ��� returned to class last month. The project on Monday was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The youngest child, an energetic 8-year- Georgia's attorney general says Savannah overstepped in outlawing guns in unlocked cars 05/06/2024 04:18pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia's attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority by making it illegal to leave firearms in unlocked cars. Savannah's mayor and city council in April enacted the new city ordinance aimed at making it harder for criminals to steal guns, citi Redfin agrees to pay $9.25 million to settle real estate broker commission lawsuits 05/06/2024 03:29pm • Redfin has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle federal lawsuits that claim U.S. homeowners were saddled with artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their home as a result of longstanding real estate industry practices. The online brokerage and real estate services company disclose As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat 05/06/2024 12:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate's bid, pr New Liberia forest boss plans to increase exports, denies working with war criminal Charles Taylor 05/06/2024 09:55am • Liberia, West Africa���s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront. So it raised eyebrows when Rudolph Merab, whose companies were twice found to have engaged in illegal loggi Hungary and Serbia's autocratic leaders to roll out red carpet for China's Xi during Europe tour 05/06/2024 09:38am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ��� Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries in the continent���s eastern half, a region that Beijing has used as a foothold for its expanding economic ambitions in Europe. Following a stop in Paris on Monday to As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat 05/06/2024 12:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After a participant in the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York City, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate's bid, Qantas agrees to pay $79 million in compensation and a fine for selling seats on canceled flights 05/05/2024 11:52pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� Qantas Airways agreed to pay 120 million Australian dollars ($79 million) in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights, the airline and Australia���s consumer watchdog said on Monday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission How to Become a Financial Advisor 05/05/2024 08:00pm • "Financial advisor" is more than just a title. 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The remarks Saturday at Mar-a-Lago w What we learned from local votes ahead of looming UK general election 05/05/2024 05:42am • LONDON (AP) ��� Millions of voters in England cast ballots Thursday in an array of local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K. general election that all indicators suggest will see the Labour Party return to power after 14 years in the wilderness. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was barely a Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues in 2024's rare contest between two presidents 05/04/2024 08:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Joe Biden and Donald Trump are two presidents with unfinished business and an itch to get it done. Their track records and plans on abortion, immigration, taxes, wars abroad ��� you name it ��� leave no doubt that the man voters choose in November will seek to shape the landscap