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$842 million Powerball ticket sold in Michigan, 1st time the game has been won on New Year's Day 01/02/2024 09:25pm • JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) ��� Someone in Michigan won an $842.4 million Powerball jackpot on the first day of 2024, the first time it has been won on New Year���s Day since the game���s start in 1992. The winning numbers drawn were: 12, 21, 42, 44, 49 and red Powerball: 1. Final ticket sales pushed the ja US national debt hits record $34 trillion as Congress gears up for funding fight 01/02/2024 07:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The federal government's gross national debt has surpassed $34 trillion, a record high that foreshadows the coming political and economic challenges to improve America's balance sheet in the coming years. The U.S. Treasury Department issued a report Tuesday logging U.S. finances, Net Investment Income Tax: Impact on High-Net-Worth Portfolios 01/02/2024 07:00pm • If you're a high earner with investment income, you may be in for a not-so-pleasant surprise when tax time arrives.The intention of the net investment income tax (NIIT) is to raise funds for the Affordable Care Act. However, unlike other U.S. tax code provisions that adjust higher to keep pace with Important Dates to Mark on Your Financial Calendar 01/02/2024 07:00pm • A lot of people make New Year's money resolutions. If one of yours is to stay on top of your finances, a calendar can be a big help. Aside from having the money to pay bills, much of staying organized with your finances means keeping track of dates, so pull out your digital or paper calendar and add Suburbs put the brakes on migrant bus arrivals after crackdowns in Chicago and New York 01/02/2024 05:54pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� In Edison, New Jersey, the mayor warned he would send people back to the border if they came to his city in buses. In Rockford, Illinois, authorities said 355 migrants who landed on a charter flight wouldn't be staying. ���NO MIGRANT BUSES THIS EXIT,��� signs along Interstate Alexandria mayor says funding plan for Wizards, Capitals arena at Potomac Yard 'minimizes the risk' for taxpayers 01/02/2024 05:16pm • Neither Alexandria nor Virginia state taxpayers will be paying for a possible new Wizards and Capitals arena in the Potomac Yard neighborhood, Mayor Justin Wilson said in a recent newsletter. However, Wilson said in a community newsletter Monday that 5% of the total project ��� about $100 million Michael Cohen can't hold Donald Trump liable for retaliatory imprisonment, appeals court says 01/02/2024 02:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Michael Cohen can���t hold his former boss, ex-president Donald Trump, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir, an appeals court said Tuesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in an order that it would no Brazil's economy improves during President Lula's first year back, but a political divide remains 01/02/2024 12:28am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva likes to boast he had a good first year after returning to the job. The economy is improving, Congress passed a long-overdue tax reform bill, rioters who wanted to oust him are now in jail, and his predecessor and foe Jair Bolson 7 Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever 01/01/2024 07:00pm • Identifying stocks to buy and hold for decades rather than months or years can be difficult. The world and the economy are constantly changing, creating risks for long-term investors. A dividend payment from a large, profitable company with a leading market share in a stable or growing industry is a Electric vehicle sales are slowing. No need for panic yet, insiders say. 01/01/2024 07:10am • Jon Challicom/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The recent headlines for electric vehicles have been brutal: Sales are dropping. Momentum is slipping. Consumers are souring on the technology. Experts say, however, that 2024 may be the year to finally pull the plug on gasoline-powered cars and trucks. "Fiv The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio In a crisis-ridden world, Germany's chancellor uses his New Year's speech to convey confidence 12/31/2023 02:59am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Germany's chancellor used his New Year's speech to call on his country's citizens not to lose confidence in the future as they adapt to a world experiencing multiple crises and changing at an ever-faster pace. ���So much suffering; so much bloodshed. Our world has become a more unset After landmark legislation, Indiana Republican leadership call for short, 'fine-tuning' session 12/31/2023 12:08am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Keep it short. That has been the directive from leadership in Indiana leading up to the 2024 legislative session. But with the approaching 2024 general election and following landmark conservative legislation in recent years, including a near-total ban on abortion, a wide expan States set to enact new laws on guns, pornography, taxes and even fuzzy dice 12/30/2023 02:24pm • Fuzzy dice finally will be free to dangle in Illinois. Starting Monday, police there no longer will be allowed to pull over motorists solely because they have something hanging from the rearview mirror of the windshield. That means air fresheners, parking placards and, yes, even those dice are fair New Maryland, Virginia laws going into effect on Jan. 1, 2024 12/30/2023 04:49am • There are a few new laws around the D.C. area that will go into effect on New Year's Day. There are no new laws in the District itself that will affect residents directly, but there are quite a few in neighboring states. Laws that will go into effect on the first day of 2024 in Maryland and Vi