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7 Best Vanguard Funds for Beginner Investors 07/22/2024 08:00pm • Vanguard's mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) lineup currently spans 352 options, and there's quite a few reasons beginner investors should consider them when constructing a portfolio. "Beginner investors should consider Vanguard funds for their low costs, diversification across asset classe ACC's Phillips touts financial gains, intent to fight lawsuits in assertive stance for the future 07/22/2024 07:15pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Commissioner Jim Phillips firmly believes in the future of the Atlantic Coast Conference amid the uncertainty of realignment and the wholesale changes to the model of college athletics itself. He was ready to tell everyone why, too, as the league opened its preseason footbal Chiefs owner Hunt focused on stadium solution in KC metropolitan area 07/22/2024 06:27pm • ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) ��� The Chiefs hope to make ���some significant progress��� on determining their future home after the lease for Arrowhead Stadium expires in January 2031 and club chairman and CEO Clark Hunt on Monday made it clear remaining in metropolitan Kansas City is the primary objective. Estonia's new government is formally appointed. Its first priority is to improve state finances 07/22/2024 12:29pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Estonia���s president formally appointed the Baltic country���s new government on Monday after lawmakers gave the green light to Prime Minister-designate Kristen Michal���s three-party coalition Cabinet. Addressing the new Cabinet, which is to be sworn in Tuesday, President Alar Ka EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution 07/22/2024 09:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $4.3 billion in grants to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution. The money will go to 25 projects targeting greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industr Maryland woman, dual organ donor advocates for bill to give tax break to donors 07/22/2024 05:58am • A Maryland woman is advocating for a bill aimed at increasing the number of live organ donors. Lindsay Gutierrez, originally from Oklahoma, served in security forces for the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2016. After tours alongside her husband in both England and Georgia, she was transferred to Mar 2024-2029 Housing Market Predictions 07/21/2024 08:00pm • Over the next five years, as some trends accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic begin to wane, other factors including changing demographics, the rising costs of climate change, an increasingly unstable world and the expansion of AI into the greater economy will also gain importance. If the housing ma 7 High-Return, Low-Risk Investments for Retirees 07/21/2024 08:00pm • Retirement investors often find themselves trying to establish the right balance between risk and reward. More risk in the form of stocks can potentially generate a higher return. However, smoothing returns by including lower-risk investments in a portfolio can help savers weather poor market condit 7 Best Funds to Hold in a Roth IRA 07/21/2024 08:00pm • With 2024 more than halfway over, another personal finance task you may want to add to your checklist besides 401(k) contributions is maxing out your Roth IRA, if you have one. While after-tax contributions to this account aren't tax deductible like a 401(k) and don't benefit from an employer match, Britain's Treasury chief vows to run the economy with 'iron discipline' amid demands for pay raises 07/21/2024 07:29am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s new Treasury chief said Sunday she will run the economy with ���iron discipline,��� but suggested she���ll give public sector workers an above-inflation pay raise to help end a wave of strikes and strife. The Labour Party government is under pressure from supporters and t Colombia's president pushes for health and labor changes as he opens new session of congress 07/20/2024 08:59pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Colombia's government will propose legislation aimed at overhauling the health sector and will pursue changes to labor laws, President Gustavo Petro said Saturday as he inaugurated a new session of congress. Petro, Colombia���s first left-wing president, has pushed an ambi Venice officials defend day-tripper tax, but delay the decision on extending it 07/20/2024 03:46pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Venice city officials said Friday that the day-tripper tax netted 2.4 million euros ($2.6 million) during a test phase this summer, and that decisions on how to proceed would be made in the fall after a full analysis of the data. According to the city, the 5-euro tax was paid 485,062 DC bars, restaurants and nightclubs given permission to extend hours for Olympics 07/20/2024 02:29pm • Closing time in the District is about to get later. That's because D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recently signed legislation allowing bars, restaurants and nightclubs to extend their hours for the Olympics, which will take place from July 26 to Aug. 11. The extended hours will also apply for the P Seiya Suzuki's interpreter dismissed by the Cubs 07/19/2024 04:20pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The Japanese interpreter of Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki was dismissed by the team prior to Friday���s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Interpreter Toy Matsushita had been with the organization since Suzuki���s arrival in 2022. ���Essentially, we just made the decision Trump uses false claim about Chinese auto plants in Mexico to call for UAW president to be fired 07/19/2024 04:11pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Donald Trump made a pitch for votes from key swing state autoworkers during his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination, using false claims to call on them to fire their union president. On Thursday night in Milwaukee, Trump said the United Auto Workers union sh