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7 Best Sports Betting Stocks to Buy 08/01/2023 08:00pm • With pro and college football teams in full training-camp mode and games only a month away, sports gambling companies may believe Christmas has come early. Certainly, the sector is on fire, with the total amount of cash bet on U.S. sporting events via retail sportsbooks, online sportsbooks and lotte 7 Best Vanguard Bond Funds to Buy 08/01/2023 08:00pm • Does your investment portfolio's level of volatility keep you awake at night? If so, you may want to consider an allocation to bonds. Aside from a dismal year in 2022 as interest rates rose sharply, bonds have historically played an important role in portfolio management. Due to their lower correlat Son of Colombia's president is charged with money laundering 08/01/2023 07:48pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� The son of Colombia���s president was charged Tuesday with money laundering and illicit enrichment at a hearing where prosecutors said he took thousands of dollars from drug traffickers and used it to buy luxurious homes and expensive cars. Nicol��s Petro, 36, pleaded innoc Fitch downgrades US credit rating, citing mounting debt and political divisions 08/01/2023 07:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government's credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a ���steady deterioration in standards of governance��� over the past two decades. The rating was cut Tuesday one notch to AA+ from AAA, the An accomplice to convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh's financial misdeeds gets seven years in prison 08/01/2023 05:31pm • The man who once headed a highly respected bank in the South Carolina Lowcountry will spend seven years in federal prison for helping convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh steal nearly $2 million from clients' legal settlements. Russell Laffitte was sentenced Tuesday after a jury found him guilty of six GOP nominee for Kentucky governor separates himself from ex-governor who feuded with educators 08/01/2023 05:06pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Kentucky Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron is looking to separate himself from the last GOP governor, apologizing for former Gov. Matt Bevin���s feud with educators, in an effort to reclaim lost territory with teachers ��� whose voting clout helped vault the inc X marks the lawsuit: Elon Musk's social media company sues nonprofit highlighting site's hate speech 08/01/2023 04:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has sued a group of researchers ��� alleging their work highlighting an increase in hate speech on the platform cost the company millions of dollars of advertising revenue. The suit, filed late Monday night in U.S. District Sheila Oliver, New Jersey's lieutenant governor and a prominent Black leader, dies at 71 08/01/2023 03:43pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who rose to become one of New Jersey���s most prominent Black leaders and passionately advocated for revitalizing cities and against gun violence, died Tuesday after a sudden illness. She was 71. No cause of death was given, according to a statement fro Reward increased for arrests of ���anarchists��� who torched Atlanta police motorcycles 08/01/2023 03:08pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Atlanta's police chief on Tuesday urged the public to come forward with information about those who set police motorcycles on fire last month in protest over the planned construction of a public safety training center that critics call ���Cop City.��� Police Chief Darin Schierbaum s Editorial Roundup: United States 08/01/2023 02:33pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 29 The Washington Post on the ���humming��� U.S. economy For the first time in a while, the nation ��� and its policymakers ��� can step out of crisis mode. This is an ideal moment for President Biden and Congress not just to take $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawing offers shot at 6th largest prize ever 08/01/2023 01:09pm • An estimated $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot will be up for grabs Tuesday night, giving lottery players a chance to snap an unlucky streak that has stretched on for months. No one has won the Mega Millions jackpot since April 18, allowing it to roll over again and again until it reached it Virginia tourism spending pops above pre-pandemic levels 08/01/2023 12:50pm • Domestic tourists generated $30.3 billion in visitor spending last year, according to the Virginia Tourism Corporation, up 20.3% from 2021 and 4.4% higher than Virginia tourism spending in 2019 ��� the year before the pandemic. Continuing a trend that began in 2021 when travelers were looking Prince William Co. supervisors approve one-time waiving of residential solar install fees 08/01/2023 11:31am • This article was written by WTOP's news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for��InsideNoVa.com's free email subscription today. The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has allocated $1.2 million from the county���s year-end savings fund to help cut the cost of BP profits are cut in half to $2.6 billion as oil and natural gas prices fall 08/01/2023 05:46am • LONDON (AP) ��� Energy giant BP said Tuesday that it earned nearly $2.6 billion in the second quarter, almost half what it posted in the first three months of the year as oil and natural gas prices that surged after Russia's invasion of Ukraine have fallen. The company's underlying replacement cost Brazilian player involved in match-fixing scandal transfers to Cyprus 07/31/2023 09:53pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� A Brazilian soccer player who was charged in a recent match-fixing scandal said Monday he is leaving the South American country to play in Cyprus. Alef Manga, 28, is accused of accepting a bribe of about $11,000 to get booked in a Brazilian championship match involving his club Co