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Liz Weston: 3 time-sensitive money tasks for new widows and widowers 01/08/2024 09:32am • Widows and widowers are often told not to make any major decisions for a year or more after a spouse’s death. Grief can cause you to make choices you later regret. Some financial tasks, though, shouldn’t be postponed. Revising your budget, meeting with a tax pro and securing access to credit can German farmers block roads with tractors and stage protests against plan to scrap diesel tax breaks 01/08/2024 06:41am • BERLIN (AP) — Farmers blocked highway access roads in parts of Germany Monday and snarled traffic elsewhere with their tractors, launching a week of protests against a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular three-party coalition infuri South Dakota lawmakers see alignment with Noem as session begins 01/08/2024 12:11am • Workforce needs, the budget and tax cuts will be on the minds of South Dakota lawmakers when the Legislature convenes Tuesday for a two-month session. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem will address the GOP-controlled Legislature on the session's opening day. Last month, she presented her vision for the bu Medicare IRMAA: What You Should Know for 2024 01/07/2024 07:00pm • Medicare can be a complex web, and untangling its various strands to ensure you're getting the most appropriate coverage can be daunting. One thread you might find yourself unsnarling is income-related monthly adjustment amounts, or IRMAA. In this article, we'll go through the basics of what IRMAA e NIL nonprofits can't lose in College Football Playoff championship 01/07/2024 08:56am • No matter who takes home the College Football Playoff championship Monday night in Houston, a rare nonprofit from the murky, still-developing world of Name, Image, Likeness programs is set to come out on top. Numerous NIL organizations, which help college athletes get compensated, have sprung up sin North Korea again fires near the sea border with the South, as its leader's sister mocks Seoul 01/07/2024 07:18am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea again fired artillery shells near its tense sea boundary with the South on Sunday, as the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un mocked the South's ability to detect its weapons launches. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff dismissed Kim Yo J Analysis: Maryland climate plan is comprehensive but lacks short-term legislative strategy 01/06/2024 11:31pm • By most accounts, the Maryland Department of the Environment's plan outlining the policy actions required to dramatically reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions is innovative and ambitious. But the 98-page document, released during the quiet days between Christmas and New Year's, lacks a coh Polish farmers suspend their blockade at the Ukrainian border after a deal with the government 01/06/2024 02:23pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine ended their protest after reaching an agreement with the government that met their demands, Poland's state news agency PAP reported Saturday. The frustration of the farmers was one of the challenges facing the new Biden will give the State of the Union address March 7 in a 'moment of great challenge' for the US 01/06/2024 12:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will give his annual State of the Union address on March 7. In a letter sent to the White House on Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., extended the formal invitation for Biden to speak to a joint session of Congress. Johnson said he was inviting Bide A push to expand Medicaid has Kansas governor embracing politics and cutting against her brand 01/06/2024 12:43am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is more aggressive and openly political in pushing to expand Medicaid in Kansas as the Republican-controlled Legislature prepares to open its annual session Monday following five years of failed efforts to provide state health coverage to another 150 To plead or not to plead? That is the question for hundreds of Capitol riot defendants 01/06/2024 12:14am • Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol have faced the same choice in the three years since the attack: either admit their guilt and accept the consequences or take their chances on a trial in hopes of securing a rare acquittal. Those who have who gambled — and l Trump returns to Iowa 10 days before the caucuses with a commanding lead over the Republican field 01/05/2024 11:14pm • SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump urged his supporters Friday evening not to be complacent in the face of a commanding polling lead as he kicked off the sprint to the Iowa caucuses with his first events of the election year. “Ten days from now, the people of this state are New Mexico legislators back slower, sustained growth in government programs with budget plan 01/05/2024 09:50pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Leading New Mexico lawmakers on Friday recommended a 5.9% increase in general fund spending for the coming fiscal year amid a windfall in oil-related income, while also sounding a cautionary note on the future of the state's petroleum bonanza and setting aside more money in s The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots 01/05/2024 07:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. The justices acknowledged the need to reach a Chiefs, Royals committed to Jackson County amid questions over future stadiums 01/05/2024 05:53pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs and Royals said announced Friday that both Kansas City franchises would remain in Jackson County, where Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums are located, if voters there approve the extension of an existing sales tax that has long paid for their upkeep. The stadiums,