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What Happens to Your 401(k) When You Leave Your Job? 10/26/2023 08:00pm • If you leave your current job for any reason, consider taking your 401(k) with you, and take good care of it as you do so. With some solid due diligence and good planning, you can set up your 401(k) plan at your new job. Millions of Americans do the same thing every year, and it's often a good strat What to Do With Your 401(k) if You Get Laid Off 10/26/2023 08:00pm • Layoffs have soared in certain industries over the last few months, with technology hit especially hard. More than 240,000 tech jobs were lost in 2023, according to October 2023 data from Layoffs.fyi. If you're among those who have been laid off, furloughed or let go from a job, your lifestyle can c How Transferring Colleges Can Affect Financial Aid 10/26/2023 08:00pm • Whether it's to find a better fit for a major or to attend college closer to home, many students transfer from one university to another. In addition to considering the academic and social factors of moving schools, students should also be aware that transferring schools can affect student loans and New York taxpayers will cover costs of governor's trip to wartime Israel 10/26/2023 07:10pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's office on Thursday announced taxpayers will cover the costs of her recent visit to wartime Israel, reversing course after a nonprofit was supposed to pick up the tab but has yet to receive clearance from a state ethics panel. The Democratic governo In closing days of Mississippi governor's race, candidates clash over how to fund health care 10/26/2023 06:09pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that he is working to ease financial problems for struggling hospitals ��� but the Democratic nominee for governor, Brandon Presley, said Reeves is hurting the state by refusing to expand Medicaid. In the final days before Rays push for swift approval of financing deal for new Tampa Bay ballpark, part of $6B development 10/26/2023 05:29pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� The Tampa Bay Rays are pushing for swift approval of a financing deal for a new 30,000-seat ballpark, part of a much larger $6 billion redevelopment project that includes affordable housing, a hotel, a Black history museum and many other items. The St. Petersburg City C Mar��a Corina Machado is winner of Venezuela opposition primary that the government has denounced 10/26/2023 04:21pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Venezuelan government critic Mar��a Corina Machado was declared the winner Thursday of an opposition-organized primary to choose a presidential candidate, in polling last weekend that was denounced by the self-proclaimed socialist government as illegitimate. The voting Su Md. lawmakers among those pushing for federal action on retail theft 10/26/2023 03:50pm • Viral videos have been circulating of smash-and-grab robberies at drugstores, grocers and clothing shops. They show aggressive groups using shock and confusion to run in, fill up bags full of merchandise, and then run back out. Along the way a clerk might get assaulted. The robberies appear chaot US economic growth accelerated to strong 4.9% rate last quarter as consumers shrugged off Fed hikes 10/26/2023 02:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The nation���s economy expanded at a robust 4.9% annual rate from July through September as Americans defied higher prices, rising interest rates and widespread forecasts of a recession to spend at a brisk pace. The Commerce Department said the economy expanded last quarter at th Entrepreneurs with disabilities activate allies, rewrite the narrative 10/26/2023 11:24am • Inna and Vladimir Giterman tinkered with several business ideas before finding their niche ��� and their version of the American dream ��� with crepes. Both immigrants, and both deaf, the Gitermans started Crepe Crazy in 2007. What began as a mom-and-pop shop at festivals has grown into a full-blown North Carolina Republicans put exclamation mark on pivotal annual session with redistricting maps 10/25/2023 08:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� The North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to new redistricting maps poised to empower the state GOP for years to come. Passage of the maps also marks a final achievement for Republican leaders in this year's annual session that saw their priorities o Trump is fined $10,000 over a comment he made outside court in his New York civil fraud trial 10/25/2023 08:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump was abruptly called to the witness stand and then fined $10,000 on Wednesday after the judge in his civil fraud trial said the former president had violated a gag order. It was the second time in less than a week that Trump was penalized for his out-of-court comments. Food insecurity shot up last year with inflation and the end of pandemic-era aid, a new report says 10/25/2023 05:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An estimated 17 million households reported problems finding enough food in 2022 ��� a sharp jump from 2021 when boosted government aid helped ease the pandemic-induced economic shutdown. A new Department of Agriculture report, released Wednesday, paints a sobering picture of po Most of Justice Thomas' $267,000 loan for an RV seems to have been forgiven, Senate Democrats say 10/25/2023 05:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� All or most of a $267,000 loan obtained by Supreme CourtJustice Clarence Thomas to buy a high-end motorcoach appears to have been forgiven, raising tax and ethics questions, according to a new report by Senate Democrats. Anthony ���Tony��� Welters, a longtime friend of Thomas who North Dakota special session resolves budget mess in three days 10/25/2023 04:44pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� North Dakota's Republican-controlled Legislature adjourned Wednesday after rewriting provisions of a major budget bill that was voided by the state Supreme Court, resolving a mess that had threatened to stymie government operations. The Legislature completed its special sessi