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7 Best Vanguard Funds to Buy and Hold 06/01/2023 08:00pm • For long-term investors looking for low-cost, broadly diversified funds, there aren't many better places to start than with Vanguard Group. With a current lineup of 266 mutual funds and 82 exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, the firm has a plethora of investment options to satisfy a variety of investor Revised DACA program again debated before Texas judge who previously ruled against it 06/01/2023 07:19pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A federal judge did not make an immediate decision Thursday on the fate of a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. During a court hearing, attorneys representing the nine states that California bill requiring Big Tech to pay for news gains momentum 06/01/2023 06:53pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A California bill that would force Big Tech companies to pay media outlets for posting and using their news content cleared another critical hurdle Thursday. The measure is among hundreds of bills that passed in the state Senate and Assembly this week before Friday ��� t Baseball legend Steve Garvey considering US Senate bid in California, energizing beleaguered GOP 06/01/2023 06:17pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� You'd have to go back a generation ��� to 1988 ��� to find the last time a Republican candidate won a U.S. Senate race in heavily Democratic California. This time, the party might get an MVP on the ballot. Baseball legend Steve Garvey, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and DePasquale to run for Pennsylvania attorney general in 2024 06/01/2023 05:10pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Eugene DePasquale, Pennsylvania's former two-term auditor general, said Thursday that he will run for state attorney general, an office that played a critical role in rebuffing Republican attempts to overturn President Joe Biden's win over Donald Trump in the 2020 election. People with felony convictions can now vote in Minnesota; secretary of state celebrates 06/01/2023 05:00pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ��� At a celebration of Minnesota���s new law that restores voting rights to people who have left prison, Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon registered newly eligible voters Thursday, when the law went into effect. ���It is the largest single act of enfranchisement in ove Sports gambling in North Carolina a better bet with likely final votes next week 06/01/2023 03:03pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Legalized sports gambling starting next year in North Carolina now seems a better bet as the state House's top leader said Thursday he expected his chamber would accept alterations to its own proposal made by the Senate. House Speaker Tim Moore's comment was a turnabout for hi Florence bans new short-term vacation rentals in Italian city's historic center 06/01/2023 02:21pm • MILAN (AP) ��� The city of Florence on Thursday announced an immediate ban on new short-term private vacation rentals in the Renaissance city���s historic center, part of an effort to draw full-time residents back to one of Italy���s most popular tourist destinations. Mayor Dario Nardella called th In Denmark, potatoes on key bridge cause havoc 06/01/2023 07:36am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A 57-year-old truck driver was detained Thursday after loads of potatoes were found spilled on a key bridge linking two Danish islands, police have said. The driver was held on suspicion of causing reckless endangerment to life. A first spill was reported on the westbou Sweden close to becoming first 'smoke free' country in Europe as daily use of cigarettes dwindles 05/31/2023 11:36pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� Summer is in the air, cigarette smoke is not, in Sweden's outdoor bars and restaurants. As the World Health Organization marks ���World No Tobacco Day��� on Wednesday, Sweden, which has the lowest rate of smoking in the Europe Union, is close to declaring itself ���smoke free��� � House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate 05/31/2023 11:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Veering away from a default crisis, the House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package late Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans against fierce conservative blowback and progress Corporate Amazon workers protest company���s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout 05/31/2023 08:24pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Telling executives to ���strive harder,��� hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company's lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. The prot What Is a Blind Trust? 05/31/2023 08:00pm • Trusts can be used to hold assets for a beneficiary, and you may hear about them when carrying out estate planning or evaluating strategies to pass investments to heirs. One type of trust, called a blind trust, offers a layer of separation between the person who created it and how the investments ar Alex Murdaugh pleads not guilty ��� for now ��� to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges 05/31/2023 06:16pm • CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ��� Alex Murdaugh was arraigned Wednesday on federal money laundering and wire fraud charges for indictments saying he stole money from his clients, and although he pleaded not guilty for now, his lawyer said that might change soon. Murdaugh is already serving a life sentence i 2 men in Virginia defrauded millions in COVID relief 05/31/2023 02:53pm • Two Northern Virginia businessmen will likely spend the next several years in prison after pleading guilty in a joint scheme to defraud banks and the Small Business Administration of around $7.6 million in COVID relief funds. Bennie Earl Magee, 54, of Manassas, Virginia, and Michael Gilcher, 45,