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Affluent Americans are driving US economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts 04/29/2024 07:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She's planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along Grammys on the Hill to honor Sheryl Crow in DC, advocating for AI guardrails, ticket price legislation 04/29/2024 06:55am • The Hamilton in D.C. hosts the annual Grammys on the Hill event on Tuesday night. This year, all they wanna do is have some fun with this year's musical honoree Sheryl Crow. "She's won a bunch of Grammys, but she has also been very active around fighting for the rights of music people and Car Review: The Mazda CX-5 is a small crossover that still delights in 2024 04/29/2024 02:04am • The Mazda CX-5 offers a more driver-oriented experience with higher handling limits than other crossovers or small SUVs in its class. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Even though Mazda introduced an impressive new compact crossover last year, the venerable Mazda CX-5 is still a big seller for the company. It is a If You're Paid Biweekly, Discover the 2 Months in 2024 You'll Be Paid 3 Times -- and Learn How to Plan For It 04/28/2024 08:00pm • If you're paid biweekly there are two months in 2024 that you'll get paid three times. But which months are they? It depends on the date of your first paycheck of the year. Keep reading to find out when you'll get three checks -- and get advice on how to best spend them. 2024 Months With 2 Paychecks 5 Areas Where Inflation Is Highest 04/28/2024 08:00pm • For more than three years, readings from the U.S. consumer price index, or CPI, have been well above the Federal Reserve's long-term inflation target of 2%. Americans have likely noticed prices surging for goods and services ranging from groceries to insurance to housing to transportation. Unfortuna McLaughlin wins 2nd straight at Barber, putting happy ending on rough week for Team Penske 04/28/2024 05:10pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Scott McLaughlin and Team Penske proved they're a force on the track, no matter what's going on elsewhere. McLaughlin won his second straight race at Barber Motorsports Park, giving Team Penske a much-needed triumph on Sunday just days after IndyCar erased Josef Newgarden's Summer Movie Guide: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from May to Labor Day 04/28/2024 01:45pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Are you ready for some movies this summer? There's action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day. You just have to know where to look. Things kick off in Authorities name driver fatally shot by deputies in Memphis after he sped toward them 04/28/2024 01:39pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� Authorities say they have identified a man who was fatally shot by sheriff���s deputies after he sped toward them in a vehicle while the officers were serving a drug-related search warrant in a Memphis neighborhood Friday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the man wh Residents begin going through the rubble after tornadoes hammer parts of Nebraska and Iowa 04/28/2024 12:09am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Residents began sifting through the rubble Saturday after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions, then slamming an Iowa town. Dozens of reported tornadoes wreaked havoc Frid Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity 04/27/2024 10:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters Team Penske's Power, McLaughlin lock up front row at IndyCar after controversial week 04/27/2024 06:19pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Getting back in the race car was ���the best medicine in the world��� for Josef Newgarden. That's also Scott McLaughlin's ���favorite place in the world.��� Team Penske, Newgarden, McLaughlin and Will Power get to end a controversy-filled week tucked into their high-speed s Ryan Truex goes back-to-back at Dover Motor Speedway for 2nd career NASCAR victory 04/27/2024 05:25pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� It was another Truex family reunion in victory lane at Dover. Ryan Truex won the Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover Motor Speedway for the second straight year, giving the younger brother of Martin Truex Jr. the only NASCAR victories of his career. Truex went back-to-ba Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a social media influencer 04/27/2024 03:25pm • BAGHDAD (AP) ��� Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as ���Um Fahad," was popular on the social media sites TikTok and Instagra Today in History: April 27, Magellan killed in the Philippines 04/27/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, April 27, the 118th day of 2024. There are 248 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. On this date: In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of Star driver Josef Newgarden fights back tears, accepts blame for breaking rules in IndyCar scandal 04/26/2024 07:04pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden blinked back tears Friday as he accepted blame for manipulating the push-to-pass system in his season-opening IndyCar win that has since been stripped, calling it an embarrassment and acknowledging that he may have a long r