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Real Estate vs. Stocks: Which Has Higher Returns? 05/29/2023 08:00pm • Investors frequently compare real estate and stock investing in terms of their returns. According to a Gallup poll published in May, 34% of Americans believe that real estate is the best long-term investment, while only 18% say that stocks or mutual funds are the best long-term investment strategy. Beach Packing List: 33 Essentials to Bring 05/29/2023 08:00pm • There's a lot that goes into planning a beach vacation, even after you decide where you're going and settle on a hotel, resort, vacation villa or condominium. You also have to create a packing list that has everything you need -- including items for the beach you may not have even thought about. Obv 7 Recent and Upcoming IPOs to Watch in 2023 05/29/2023 08:00pm • It has been a tough, quiet year in the market for initial public stock offerings -- but a surprisingly good year for stocks of recent IPOs. Only 42 companies have gone public this year as of mid-May, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO-focused research firm and exchange-traded fund, or ETF, man What Is Escrow? 05/29/2023 08:00pm • "Escrow" is a term that comes up frequently in real estate transactions, but oftentimes, neither buyer nor seller fully understands how it works. Escrow is mandatory in most home sales, and mortgage lenders typically require borrowers to have escrow accounts to cover property taxes and homeowners in What Happens to Your 403(b) If You Quit? 05/29/2023 08:00pm • Following the pandemic, there has been an uptick in teachers leaving the education industry. Whether you're looking for a higher salary, better work-life balance or more comprehensive benefits, there are a lot of benefits to making a career change if you're unhappy in your current role. Still, the e Liz Weston: 5 ways to simplify and reduce your money clutter 05/29/2023 08:06am • Professional organizers might define household clutter as a pile of unmade decisions. Money clutter is much the same. Those credit cards you no longer use but haven���t closed? That���s money clutter. So is the retirement account you left behind three jobs ago and the financial paperwork you keep bu PwC Australia sidelines 9 directors as leak of tax information investigated 05/29/2023 02:57am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� The Australian branch of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy network said Monday that nine of its partners were ordered to take leave during an inquiry into the leaking of confidential Australian tax avoidance policy changes to corporate clients who could benefit from Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination 05/29/2023 02:04am • EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain (AP) ��� Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells, Spain���s second city now relies upon a labyrinth-like mesh of green, blue and purple pipes inside an industrial plant to keep it from going thirsty amid a prolonged drought. Water is Debt ceiling tests Speaker McCarthy as he rides breezily through high-wire act of his career 05/28/2023 09:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� One morning during the debt ceiling crisis, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy climbed onto his mountain bike and took a ride along the National Mall, marveling at the monuments. The next day he arrived for negotiations at the Capitol carting in tortilla chips and queso for the beleagu Leicester's fairy tale is over as Everton stays in Premier League after final-day escape 05/28/2023 06:31pm • LEICESTER, England (AP) ��� Seven years after the most improbable Premier League title triumph of all, Leicester was relegated from English soccer's top division on Sunday while Everton pulled off another last-day escape to extend its 69-year stay. Leeds was also consigned to the drop with Leicester What's next on the debt ceiling: Selling the plan and making a deal into a law 05/28/2023 02:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After weeks of negotiations, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have announced an ��� agreement in principle ��� to raise the nation���s debt ceiling and avoid a potentially catastrophic default. The agreement includes spending cuts demanded by Republicans, but Biden, GOP reach tentative deal to raise debt ceiling, avoid calamitous US default 05/27/2023 11:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an ���agreement in principle��� to raise the nation's legal debt ceiling late Saturday as they raced to strike a deal to limit federal spending and avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default. However, the agreement ri New bill to build Athletics stadium on Las Vegas Strip caps Nevada's cost at $380 million 05/27/2023 12:10pm • CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) ��� A bill introduced late Friday in the Nevada Legislature would give the Oakland Athletics up to $380 million for a potential 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion retractable roof stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. The bulk of the public funding would come from $180 million in transferabl New Mexico shooting victims mourned by their children, 64 grandchildren 05/27/2023 07:55am • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Gwendolyn Dean Schofield hoped to live to 100, and she was nearly there. But on May 15, in what appeared to be a final act of kindness, Schofield and her daughter pulled over on a residential street in the northwestern New Mexico city of Farmington to help a woman who was sho US: Chinese agents paid bribes in plot to disrupt anti-communist Falun Gong movement 05/26/2023 11:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. authorities have arrested two suspected Chinese government agents in connection with an alleged plot by Beijing to disrupt and ultimately topple the exiled anti-communist Falun Gong spiritual movement. John Chen and Lin Feng were charged in an indictment unsealed Friday with s