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Brazil's police say Bolsonaro embezzled $1.2 million in undeclared jewelry from Saudi Arabia 07/08/2024 08:22pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil���s Federal Police allege former President Jair Bolsonaro embezzled jewelry worth 6.8 million Brazilian reals (about $1.2 million) during his time in office, according to the investigative report unsealed Monday by the Supreme Court. Bolsonaro was indicted last week chargin What Is an E-Check? 07/08/2024 08:00pm • E-checks are an electronic version of a paper check and are used to make payments online by both consumers and businesses through a data network. If you've entered your banking information online to make a direct payment, like with recurring rent or car payments, you've probably used an e-check befo 10 of the Best Vanguard ETFs to Buy 07/08/2024 08:00pm • If you've ever encountered a Vanguard mutual fund, likely as part of your 401(k) plan's offerings, you might be surprised to learn that the firm also boasts a robust lineup of 86 exchange-traded funds (ETFs). "Overall, Vanguard is highly regarded among professional investors and financial experts, p How to Sell Your Home Super Fast 07/08/2024 08:00pm • Some people need to sell their home, like, now. Maybe you are moving yourself, or you need money quickly. Perhaps there's been a death in the family, a divorce, or you found your dream house, but you can't move forward unless you sell your current home first. Whatever the reason, you've got to sell Republicans move at Trump's behest to change how they will oppose abortion 07/08/2024 06:09pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump���s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years. Trump impos Group files petitions to put recreational marijuana on North Dakota's November ballot 07/08/2024 04:47pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ��� Organizers of a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota submitted petition signatures on Monday, likely setting up another statewide vote on the issue that voters and state lawmakers have previously defeated. The New Economic Frontier measure grou US women's coach Emma Hayes sidesteps equal pay question if high-priced star takes over American men 07/08/2024 03:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. women's coach Emma Hayes sidestepped a question on whether she should get a raise if a high-priced star such as J��rgen Klopp is hired to replace Gregg Berhalter with the American men. Berhalter has a contract through the 2026 World Cup. U.S. Soccer Federation sporting directo New Jersey fines DraftKings $100K for reporting inaccurate sports betting data to the state 07/08/2024 02:47pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� In one of the most sternly worded rebukes they have ever issued, New Jersey gambling regulators have fined DraftKings $100,000 for reporting inaccurate sports betting data to the state, which it called ���unacceptable conduct��� that demonstrated weaknesses in the compan New parents in Baltimore could get a $1,000 'baby bonus' under a proposal to fight child poverty 07/08/2024 02:36pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� New parents in Baltimore could receive a $1,000 ���baby bonus��� if voters approve a proposal that aims to help reduce childhood poverty from birth with a modest one-time cash payment. A group of Baltimore teachers is behind the effort. Organizers recently secured the necessary 10 France's election ends up with no clear majority. This is what could happen next 07/08/2024 02:26pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French voters have given a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in a pivotal legislative election that has kept the far right from power but has put France in the unprecedented position of having no dominant political bloc in parliament. While a fractured parliament is Macron keeps France's prime minister in place for 'stability of the country' after chaotic��election 07/08/2024 01:38pm • PARIS (AP) ��� President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of France���s prime minister, asking him on Monday to remain temporarily as the head of the government after a chaotic election result left the government in limbo. Voters split the legislature on the left, center and far right, leavin Read the letter President Biden sent to House Democrats telling them to support him in the election 07/08/2024 01:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden wants Democrats in Congress to know he has no intention of exiting this year's election, sending them a letter on Monday on his personal letterhead. Here is Biden's letter to the congressional Democrats whose backing he likely needs: Fellow Democrats, Now that The Latest | Macron asks French prime minister to stay on for the sake of stability 07/08/2024 10:52am • French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal Monday, in the wake of a chaotic election result that left neither left, right, nor center with a majority in the National Assembly. A broad left-leaning coalition, the New Popular Front, took the most seats i Senegal���s leader wasn't born when ECOWAS was founded. He's asked to reunite the bloc split by coups 07/08/2024 08:41am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Senegal���s President Basirou Diomaye Faye, Africa's youngest, is suddenly faced with a huge challenge of reuniting a weakened regional bloc that is older than him. The 44-year-old Faye was tasked on Sunday with getting the military junta-ruled Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ba French vote gives leftists most seats over far right, but leaves hung parliament and deadlock 07/07/2024 11:24pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A coalition of the French left won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections Sunday, beating back a far-right surge but failing to win a majority. The outcome left France, a pillar of the European Union and Olympic host country, facing the stunning prospect of a hung parliam