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Stock market today: Wall Street slips as households get more nervous 05/12/2023 04:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Another seemingly listless week on Wall Street came to a quiet close on Wall Street Friday, but big worries continue to roil under the surface. The S&P 500 dipped 6.54 points, or 0.2%, to 4,124.08 to cap a sixth straight week where it moved by less than 1%. The Dow Jones Indus How major US stock indexes fared Friday 5/12/2023 05/12/2023 04:17pm • Stocks slipped on Wall Street after a report showed that sentiment is souring among U.S. consumers. The S&P 500 lost 0.2% Friday. The Dow ended barely lower and the Nasdaq gave up 0.4%. A preliminary survey said confidence in the economy among consumers is tumbling. Treasury yields rose becaus Tiny bats provide 'glimmer of hope' against a fungus that threatened entire species 05/12/2023 03:36pm • DORSET, Vt. (AP) — Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir. The little brown bats, survivors of a deadly fungus that decimated their population, went into hibernation last fall. Now in early May, they're waking, detaching from their rock wa How does the NBA lottery work, and who has the best chance to draft Wembanyama? 05/12/2023 11:52am • The NBA draft lottery has offered teams a quick path from bad to good for nearly four decades. The stakes this year are unusually high with French phenom Victor Wembanyama the top prospect. The lottery format has undergone a few changes since the New York Knicks won the first one in 1985, when there It's Eurovision time! Here's how the contest works and who to watch for 05/12/2023 04:34am • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Sprinkle the sequins and pump up the volume: The 67th Eurovision Song Contest reaches its climax on Saturday with a grand final broadcast live from Liverpool. There will be catchy choruses, a kaleidoscope of costumes and tributes to the spirit of Ukraine in a competition Jesper Fast scores on OT power play, Hurricanes eliminate Devils in Game 5 05/11/2023 11:42pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jesper Fast could only shake his head in disbelief after missing an early open-net putaway, a play that took on growing weight as the Carolina Hurricanes found themselves in an overtime. "Yeah, it was hard to get over that one,” Fast said. He certainly made amends, pushing t 9 College Application Tasks for the Summer Before Senior Year 05/11/2023 08:00pm • The summer before senior year of high school is a critical time for students to make progress on the college application process.Before the busyness of the school year starts and fall and winter college application deadlines loom, students can knock out several key tasks to avoid stress down the roa What Are the Best Natural Laxatives? 05/11/2023 08:00pm • Some health conditions are harder to talk about than others. Somewhere near the top of that list for many people is constipation. Everyone has likely had a bout of constipation at some point or another. It's a common condition resulting from a number of different causes and often goes away on its ow 7 Companies That Went Bankrupt Due to COVID 05/11/2023 08:00pm • COVID-19 had a massive effect on the American economy. There was the first wave, when many retail and location-based businesses failed amid the shutdowns. The extent of the pandemic would go much further than that, however. As the government resorted to extraordinary measures, such as zero interest 8 of the Best Vanguard ETFs for Retirees 05/11/2023 08:00pm • In the past, retirees invested quite differently. Often, a retirement portfolio consisted of blue-chip stocks and bonds managed by a financial advisor, or of expensive, actively managed mutual funds. This changed in 1976 when John Bogle and Vanguard launched the First Index Investment Trust, a low-c 6 Best Health Care ETFs to Buy Now 05/11/2023 08:00pm • When the economy is wheezing along at a glacial pace and the stock market is highly volatile, smart investors turn to so-called defensive stocks that can weather economic storms and keep portfolios stabilized in times of market peril. One stabilizing industry, in particular, is health care, where co 2 climbers missing in Alaska's Denali national park are presumed dead, officials say 05/11/2023 06:16pm • Two climbers last heard from as they prepared to scale a peak in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve last week are believed dead, the park said Thursday. Leaders of the search efforts “have concluded that survival is outside the window of possibility,” citing the rocky terrain, the climbe Business Highlights: Wholesale prices rise modestly, a new CEO found for Twitter 05/11/2023 05:13pm • ___ US wholesale price data for April points to easing inflation pressures WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose modestly last month, the latest sign that inflationary pressures may be easing more than a year after the Federal Reserve unleashed an aggressive campaign of stea 2 fishermen caught cheating at Ohio tournament sentenced to 10-day jail terms, forfeit of $100k boat 05/11/2023 01:58pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men who admitted stuffing fish with lead weights and fish fillets in an attempt to win thousands of dollars in an Ohio fishing tournament last fall were sentenced Thursday to ten-day jail terms and other penalties, including the forfeiture of a boat valued at $100,000. The che Colorado legislative session reinforces once-purple state's Democratic shift 05/11/2023 12:05am • DENVER (AP) — As Colorado House lawmakers churned through final votes during the last night of this year's session, Republicans stood up and marched out of the chamber before the Democratic speaker could gavel it to a close — a defiant act meant to show how sidelined and silenced they felt. The