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Financial educator <a href="https://www.missbehelpful.com/">Yanely Espinal </a>shares some of the most common mistakes people make when it comes to borrowing, investing and budgeting their money. <br>

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  • Your Money

To save more money, avoid these 5 common financial mistakes

Financial missteps can cost you money. Make better-informed decisions about budgeting, investing and borrowing money.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Marielle Segarra
 Just shy of a decade after debuting in hip-hop, Post Malone completes a long-gestating country turn with the new album <em>F-1 Trillion</em>.

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  • Music Features

Post Malone's winding country road

The duet-packed F-1 Trillion marks a new chapter, but it's no wild swerve — the one-time SoundCloud rapper has had his eye on Nashville for years.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Girl and Girl

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  • Music

Hear a live concert by Australia's next buzz band, Girl and Girl

The Australian indie rock band performs songs off its debut album, Call A Doctor.

August 15, 2024
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  • Stephen Kallao
The majority of employees who work at the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were put on administrative leave Thursday.

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  • Business

Trump gutted federal employee unions. They believe he'd do it again

Federal employee unions are fervently supporting Kamala Harris for president, in part because they like her pro-labor policies, but just as much because they fear a second Trump term.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
A health worker fumigates the basement of a building in Havana as Cuban health authorities launch small-scale efforts to fight the spread of the oropouche virus, which is transmitted by midge and mosquito bites.

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  • Global Health

Oropouche virus 101: A guide to a little-known virus that's raising concern this year

The virus has been confined to certain areas of the Amazon but is moving into new turf as climate change enables the insects that spread it to spread out. Here's what we know.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
The prehistoric monument Stonehenge, near Amesbury in southern England, has long fascinated researchers and visitors.

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  • World

Researchers say they've found the surprising source of a key piece of Stonehenge

Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Louis Cole commands the pulpit as singers join in the performance at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

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  • Music

With a new orchestral album, Louis Cole pulls magic out of the air

Louis Cole is a prolific musician known primarily as a drummer, but whose music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock. Now he's in a whole new space.

August 15, 2024
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  • Noah Caldwell,
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • and 1 more
The Federal Communications Commission announced its plans to launch a new nationwide alert code for missing and endangered Indigenous people who do not fit the criteria for an Amber Alert or Silver Alert. Here, family and friends of the missing and murdered march around the California State Capitol at the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action in Sacramento, Calif., on Feb. 13.

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  • National

FCC adopts an alert system for missing Indigenous people

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Wally Amos pictured in 2007 in his home office in the Lanikai section of Kailua, Hawaii.

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  • Obituaries

Wally Amos, creator of Famous Amos cookies, has died

The creator of the grocery store snack aisle staple died at 88. His family said in a statement that he had dementia.

August 15, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
The first price negotiations between Medicare and drugmakers could save the billions of dollars a year for taxpayers and beneficiaries.

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  • Health

Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got

The White House announced new Medicare drug prices for 10 medicines popular with beneficiaries. It's the first time the federal program has negotiated lower prices with the pharmaceutical industry.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin and
  • Asma Khalid
Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign rally on Aug. 10, 2024 in Las Vegas.

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  • Politics

The Harris campaign is on a roll. But all honeymoons come to an end

Democrats are exuberant. Money is flowing in. Volunteers are signing up. But campaign veterans say there will come a day when attacks start to land and mistakes will be made.

August 15, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
Gena Rowlands in 1968.

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  • Arts & Life

Gena Rowlands, a luminous leading lady of independent film, has died

Actress Gina Rowlands has died. She collaborated with husband John Cassavetes on nearly a dozen films.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik testifies during a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing about antisemitism on college campuses on April 17 in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigns after 'period of turmoil'

Shafik is the third Ivy League university president to leave her job following criticism over how she has handled campus protests regarding the Israel-Hamas war. She held the job for 13 months.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith and
  • Ayana Archie
Bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas, is shown surrounding Big Tex as storm clouds move in above, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in Dallas.  (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

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  • National

Texas attorney general threatens lawsuit over the State Fair banning guns

The State Fair of Texas is laying down a new rule before millions of visitors flock through the gates: No guns allowed. The state's attorney general threatened to sue unless the fair reversed course.

August 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Attendees at the Republican National Convention hold up signs reading "Mass Deportation Now!" last month in Milwaukee.

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  • National

Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles

Former President Donald Trump and his allies promise a historic deportation effort if he's reelected. But internal documents from his time in office show how difficult that would be to execute.

August 14, 2024
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  • Joel Rose and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
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