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France's prime minister is ousted as the nation drifts into turmoil 09/09/2025 01:02pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Another prime minister gone. Another crisis unfolding. In France, what once shocked is now routine. Prime Minister Fran��ois Bayrou submitted his resignation Tuesday after losing a crushing confidence vote in parliament. The third toppling of a head of government in 14 months leaves P New data shows the US job market was much weaker than thought in 2024, and this year as well 09/09/2025 12:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. job market was much weaker in 2024 and early this year than originally reported, adding to concerns about the health of the nation's economy. Employers added 911,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the year that ended in March 2025, the Labor Department reported T Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, a new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds 09/09/2025 10:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support. However, just over half also think the government spends too little on those in need, the new poll from the University Takeaways from an AP analysis about longer delays in approving US disaster aid 09/09/2025 08:05am • TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) ��� Survivors of major natural disasters in the U.S. are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor���s request for a major disaster decla What I���ve done right with my portfolio 09/09/2025 06:00am • There are definitely things I get wrong in my investment portfolio. I hold too much company stock and cash, and I don���t have the recommended allowance of bonds for a person my age. My record on curbing taxes hasn���t been perfect. I���ve held tax-inefficient funds in a taxable account and have bee Maryland Gov. Moore makes re-election bid official, adds staff; Hale is now officially a Republican; more notes 09/09/2025 05:56am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) makes it official Tuesday, announcing his plans to seek re-election in 2026. The announcement, which was widely expected, was made in a campaign video in which Moore recounts his historic 2022 campaign, which made him the first Black governor in state history, as well as his ef DC's marijuana market is changing. Some cultivators are seizing the moment 09/09/2025 04:45am • Taking the advice of the old adage to stop and smell the flowers really takes on a new meaning at this D.C. medical marijuana growing operation. In today���s episode of ���Matt About Town,��� WTOP visits the headquarters of Alternative Solutions, or Alt Sol, a cannabis cultivator in D.C., to lear Utah Olympic organizers announce 9-figure fundraising effort for 2034 Winter Games 09/08/2025 09:13pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Organizers of the Salt Lake City 2034 Winter Games announced a fundraising effort on Monday that they say is the largest philanthropic campaign supporting a host city in Olympic and Paralympic history. The initiative, branded as Podium34, has raised more than $200 million and North Carolina voter ID and tax cap amendments are enforceable, judges rule 09/08/2025 09:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Two North Carolina constitutional amendments approved by voters ��� including a photo voter identification mandate ��� are enforceable, a trial court panel ruled three years after appeals judges declared they could be nullified because state lawmakers who helped put them on 20 Bears president all but shuts door on team staying in city, says 'future home' in Arlington Heights 09/08/2025 08:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The Chicago Bears all but slammed the door on building an enclosed stadium in the city, with team president Kevin Warren writing in a letter to fans on Monday that the team's ���future home��� is in suburban Arlington Heights. ���Moving outside of the city of Chicago is not a decisi 5 Best S&P 500 Index Funds to Buy Now 09/08/2025 08:00pm • The S&P 500 is getting a refresh: Robinhood Markets Inc. (ticker: HOOD), AppLovin Corp. (APP) and Emcor Group Inc. (EME) are set to join the large-cap index before the market opens on Sept. 22. The S&P 500 rebalances quarterly, adding or removing companies and adjusting weightings, to ensure Winning $893.5 million lottery ticket was bought at St. Louis gas station 09/08/2025 07:58pm • One of two unnamed lottery winners bought a ticket worth $893.5 million from a QuikTrip gas station in north St. Louis County, Missouri, lottery officials announced Monday. The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61 and 62 with a Powerball number of 17. The Missouri ticket holder was one of two w African leaders push for climate investment at Ethiopia summit 09/08/2025 07:06pm • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ��� African leaders met Monday in the Ethiopian capital for the second Africa Climate Summit, where they proposed a new way of thinking about climate adaptation funding and called for the continent to be viewed not as a victim, but as an investment opportunity. With a popu Norway's Labor Party claims victory in general election 09/08/2025 06:59pm • OSLO, Norway (AP) ��� Norway���s Labor Party of Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St��re has claimed victory in Monday���s general election with most votes now counted and with a narrow but clear win by the center-left block over the right-wing parties. Rapturous cheering erupted in Oslo on Monday night as Editorial Roundup: United States 09/08/2025 04:39pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 5 The New York Times says Trump's trade policies are damaging U.S. economy and it's global leadership When the United States pushed to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers in the wake of World War II, much of the world fol