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Top Biden campaign aide sees lessons for Dems in Georgia 04/25/2023 01:50pm • ATLANTA (AP) — When Quentin Fulks went back home to Ellaville, Georgia, last year, people kept telling him how proud they were to watch a native son lead Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection bid. Then came the caveat: They still weren’t going to vote for his boss. “I didn't take it personally,â Sen. Scott bill would fund armed officers in all US schools 04/25/2023 01:16pm • Money earmarked for thousands of new IRS employees would be transferred to a grant program allowing schools nationwide to hire armed law enforcement personnel under legislation outlined Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. The School Guardian Act would take about $80 billion that Congress Coronation gives tourism boost, but UK economy still reeling 04/25/2023 11:33am • LONDON (AP) — Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the top of her bucket list — heading to London for King Charles III's coronation. After arriving on May 5, the 44-year-old school bus driver from Long Isl Spain pleads for EU crisis funds as drought hits farmers 04/25/2023 10:43am • MADRID (AP) — Spain is requesting emergency funds from the European Union to support farmers and ranchers amid extreme drought conditions in its agricultural heartlands, Agriculture Minister Luis Planas said Tuesday. Planas wrote to the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, As sand miners prosper in Uganda, a vital lake basin suffers 04/25/2023 10:22am • LWERA WETLAND, Uganda (AP) — The excavator grunts in the heart of the wetland, baring its teeth. There are trucks waiting to be loaded with sand, and more almost certainly on the way. This is how it is here daily in Lwera — a central Ugandan region on the fringes of Lake Victoria: a near-consta Biogen tops 1Q forecast despite sales slip for key products 04/25/2023 09:57am • Biogen beat Wall Street’s first-quarter expectations even as revenue from the drugmaker’s biggest product group tumbled. Sales of Biogen's multiple sclerosis treatments, which include Tecfidera and Tysabri, fell 19% to $1.12 billion compared to last year’s quarter, the company said Tuesday. S Car Review: Chevrolet Bolt EUV grows in space and technology for 2023 04/25/2023 09:52am • More electric vehicle (EV) choices means more buzz and reviews that hook you until you see the prices. But wait, there are some affordable EVs hitting the market. The 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, which was introduced last year, is bigger than the Bolt by a good six inches and has a starting price under Lebanese, EU legal teams to cooperate in Central Bank probe 04/25/2023 08:36am • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities and a European judicial team on Tuesday agreed to exchange information about their separate corruption probes of Lebanon's Central Bank governor, officials said. The announcement came during a visit by a European delegation from France, Germany, and Luxembourg †GM, Samsung plan new EV battery cell factory in US 04/25/2023 07:56am • DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and South Korea’s Samsung SDI plan to invest more than $3 billion in a new electric vehicle battery cell plant in the United States, the companies said Tuesday. They did not announce the intended location of the new factory, which is expected to begin operations in Kelly vetoes bill to cut Kansas taxes $1.4B over 3 years 04/24/2023 09:04pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill that would have cut taxes in Kansas by nearly $1.4 billion over the next three years, objecting to a proposal included by conservative Republicans to impose a single-rate flat income tax for individuals. Kelly said abandoning 7 of the Best Charles Schwab Mutual Funds 04/24/2023 08:00pm • Despite the popularity of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, investors can still find value in an old-fashioned mutual fund. These long-standing investment vehicles allow investors to access a diversified portfolio of assets managed on their behalf by professional fund managers. In accounts like 401(k) How to Apply for a Credit Card 04/24/2023 08:00pm • When you're ready to apply for a credit card, you can take steps to help your chances of approval. Check your credit, see if you're preapproved and compare card offers before you apply. Preapproval is not a guarantee of credit, but you have options if you are not approved. Read on to learn how to ap Where Are All the Tax Accountants? 04/24/2023 08:00pm • While technology firms are laying off thousands of workers, companies of all types and sizes are in a war for talent in another STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math studies) field: accounting. There's a shortage of accountants and plenty of opportunities -- whether they're at larg Speaker McCarthy faces big test as debt bill heads for vote 04/24/2023 04:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is hurtling toward one of the most consequential weeks of the new House Republican majority as he labors to pass a partisan package that would raise the nation's debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for steep cuts that some in his own party oppose. McCar Cities reviving downtowns by converting offices to housing 04/24/2023 02:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) — On the 31st floor of what was once a towering office building in downtown Manhattan, construction workers lay down steel bracing for what will soon anchor a host of residential amenities: a catering station, lounge, fire pit and gas grills. The building, empty since 2021, is being