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Microsoft agrees to buy $50m Foxconn parcel in Wisconsin 04/19/2023 06:28pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world's largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that would employ thousands of workers. Microsoft plans to Speaker McCarthy unveils $1.5T debt bill, pushes toward vote 04/19/2023 06:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a sweeping package Wednesday that would raise the nation's debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year while imposing a long list of Republican priorities, including new spending caps, work requirements for recipients of government aid and oth Biden blasts GOP 'wacko notions' amid debt limit standoff 04/19/2023 06:02pm • ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden lambasted Republicans' emerging trade-off plans to raise the nation's debt limit only in exchange for spending cuts and other policy concessions on Wednesday, declaring that GOP lawmakers are threatening a historic default on U.S. obligations ���unless I ag Ganja glut? With excess weed, growers seek interstate sales 04/19/2023 05:58pm • TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) ��� The email went out to legal cannabis growers around Washington state. Another of their colleagues had gone under. ���Liquidation sale,��� it said. Attached was a spreadsheet of items for sale: LED grow lights for $500 apiece. Rotary evaporators for hash oil, $10,000. Across Ganja glut? With excess weed, growers seek interstate sales 04/19/2023 05:52pm • TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) ��� The email went out to legal cannabis growers around Washington state, alerting them that another of their colleagues had gone under. ���Liquidation sale,��� it said. Attached was a spreadsheet of items up for grabs: LED grow lights for $500 apiece. Rotary evaporators for ha Potomac Yard Metro station to open next month 04/19/2023 04:37pm • The long-awaited and often-delayed Potomac Yard Metro station will welcome riders on Friday, May 19. When riders travel to the station, they may be awestruck by its excellent views and pleasant aesthetic. ���The only reason we're standing here is because our community never gave up on this Mississippi governor touts 'culture of life' with new laws 04/19/2023 04:06pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said bills he signed Wednesday are designed to improve foster care, speed up adoptions and help private organizations provide aid to pregnant women in the state that brought the U.S. Supreme Court case that upended abortion rights nationwide. ���M Big public union strike in Canada could disrupt tax season 04/19/2023 04:06pm • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ��� Almost 100,000 federal workers, including 35,000 from Canada���s tax agency, went on strike Wednesday as Canada���s largest public service union and the federal government continued to negotiate amid warnings of major service disruptions. Federal workers were hitting the pic Former executive pleads guilty to bribing Atlanta officials 04/19/2023 02:20pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A former executive for a longtime city of Atlanta vendor pleaded guilty Wednesday to paying bribes in exchange for millions of dollars in city contracts and to paying bribes to an official in a neighboring county in an attempt to get business there. In addition to admitting to payin Prince George���s Co. approves new rental assistance program. But how will it be paid for? 04/19/2023 12:15pm • The Prince George���s County Council unanimously approved the creation of a new rental assistance program on Tuesday. No one from the public spoke out against the program, and no one from the council did either. Instead, the looming fight appears to be over how to fund it. Under the legislatio Trump's former financial chief Weisselberg gets out of jail 04/19/2023 12:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer at Donald Trump's company, got out of jail Wednesday but might not have freed himself from the legal morass surrounding the former president. The 75-year-old emerged from New York City's Rikers Island jail complex facing the sam Tesla cuts U.S. prices again ahead of 1Q earnings release 04/19/2023 11:50am • DETROIT (AP) ��� Tesla dropped the starting prices for its two top-selling models overnight, the company's fourth price cut in the U.S. this year. The company lopped $3,000, or about 6%, off the starting prices for all three versions of the Model Y small SUV, Tesla's top-seller. It also cut $2,000, Penalties make early impact on several NHL playoff series 04/19/2023 10:47am • Throughout four unsuccessful power plays in their playoff opener at Edmonton, coach Todd McLellan told his Los Angeles Kings players to simplify their approach. Adrian Kempe doesn't even remember what the specific lesson was late in the game, but it worked. Another Oilers penalty set the scene for A Credit Suisse faulted over probe of Nazi-linked accounts 04/19/2023 09:50am • GENEVA (AP) ��� U.S. lawmakers have accused embattled Swiss bank Credit Suisse of limiting the scope of an internal investigation into Nazi clients and Nazi-linked accounts, including some that were open until just a few years ago. The Senate Budget Committee says an independent ombudsman initially How to create and maintain a family budget 04/19/2023 08:30am • Your money shouldn't be a mystery, but it is to many people. In fact, 65% of Americans don't know what they spent last month, according to a 2020 survey conducted by budgeting app Mint. "People are always more optimistic about their finances than they should be," says Howard Dvorkin, a certified