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Fed's preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month 04/26/2024 10:30am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed's reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden's re-election bid. Friday's report from the government AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York's special congressional election 04/26/2024 07:21am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans��� majority could tighten by another vote after Tuesday���s special congressional election in Buffalo ��� at least, temporarily. Voters are choosing a replacement for Democrat Brian Higgins, a longtime House member who cited the ���slow and frustrating��� pace o Tennessee lawmakers adjourn after finalizing $1.9B tax cut and refund for businesses 04/25/2024 10:37pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee's GOP-controlled General Assembly on Thursday adjourned for the year, concluding months of tense political infighting that doomed Republican Gov. Bill Lee's universal school voucher push. But a bill allowing some teachers to carry firearms in public schools and on Arkansas officials say a Missouri doctor whose body was found in a lake died by suicide 04/25/2024 06:47pm • The death of a highly regarded Missouri emergency room doctor whose body was found 11 months ago in a northwest Arkansas lake has been ruled a suicide, Arkansas authorities said Thursday, in a case that fueled social media speculation about whether his disappearance had been tied to his cryptocurren Recreational marijuana backers can gather signatures for North Dakota ballot initiative 04/25/2024 06:39pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state���s top election official said Thursday, in the latest legalization effort in the conservative state. The New Economic F US growth slowed sharply last quarter to 1.6% pace, reflecting an economy pressured by high rates 04/25/2024 04:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The nation���s economy slowed sharply last quarter to a 1.6% annual pace in the face of high interest rates, but consumers ��� the main driver of economic growth ��� kept spending at a solid pace. Thursday���s report from the Commerce Department said the gross domestic product �� Prosecutors want a reversal after a Texas woman's voter fraud conviction was overturned 04/25/2024 04:24pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Texas asked the state's highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman's voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot. Last month, Crystal Mason's illegal voting Minneapolis smokers to pay some of the highest cigarette prices in US with a $15 per-pack minimum 04/25/2024 03:51pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City Council voted unanimously Thursday to impose a minimum retail price of $15 per pack to promote public health. The ordinance not only sets a floor price. It prevents smokers and ret Venice tests a 5-euro entry fee for day-trippers as the Italian city grapples with overtourism 04/25/2024 03:49pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� Under the gaze of the world���s media, the fragile lagoon city of Venice launched a pilot program Thursday to charge day-trippers a 5-euro ($5.35) entry fee that authorities hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindli Prince George's Co. to enforce youth curfew at National Harbor starting Friday 04/25/2024 03:18pm • Following a flurry of incidents involving teenagers at National Harbor, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said that a youth curfew will be reinstated to control crime along the waterfront starting Friday evening. Most recently, a group of around 800 young people at the National H Chinese automakers redefine the car as a living space at Beijing Auto Show 04/25/2024 11:14am • BEIJING (AP) ��� How about turning a car's front bucket seats 180 degrees so they face the rear seats and extending out a table so the occupants can play cards or eat a meal? Or a 43-inch (109 centimeter) screen for the passengers in the back seat? The seemingly never-ending efforts of China's elect Amazon cloud computing unit plans to invest $11 billion to build data center in northern Indiana 04/25/2024 09:25am • NEW CARLISLE, Ind. (AP) ��� Amazon ���s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center in northern Indiana that will create at least 1,000 new jobs, state and company officials announced Thursday. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb called the project planned ne 10 Essential Sources of Retirement Income 04/24/2024 08:00pm • Many career professionals dream of hanging up their lanyards and kicking back with a cold beverage on the beach. Yet too many people approach retirement without the one thing they need to prosper: cash. According to a recent study by the Alliance for Lifetime Income, 52.5% of Americans nearing age 6 7 of the Best Tax-Free Municipal Bond Funds 04/24/2024 08:00pm • Most investors recognize the fundamental role of bonds in a portfolio. They provide a steady income stream and typically exhibit lower volatility compared to equities. However, the tax implications of bond investments can introduce some complexities that are crucial to understand, especially for inc Tennessee House kills bill that would have banned local officials from studying, funding reparations 04/24/2024 07:27pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee���s Republican-dominant House on Wednesday spiked legislation that would have banned local governments from paying to either study or dispense money for reparations for slavery. The move marked a rare defeat on a GOP-backed proposal initially introduced nearly one