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Current 401(k) Trends and Educational Opportunities
Are you missing an opportunity to help others save as much as they can for retirement?
Just based on demographics, you likely know someone who works for a company that offers a 401(k) with a match or company contribution.
There are more than 730,000 plans, representing $10.1 trillion of retirement assets for 70 million par ... (full story)
AI is plowing through the workplace. This new group wants to help people adapt and have jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — America has been rushing into an artificial intelligence future without much of a plan to stop what could be catastrophic job losses.
Critics warn of doomsday scenarios out of a sci-fi thriller, while backers say AI will generate so much new wealth that no one should worry too much about millions of layof ... (full story)
Americans are inundated with suspected scams. New polling shows why few victims report them
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal information to scams, according to a new AP-NORC survey.
The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in February, highlights the obstacl ... (full story)
Local
DeWine vetoes bill requiring photo ID for mail voting in Ohio
Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a new Republican-passed bill that would have required Ohioans to show a photo ID to vote by mail.
DeWine announced late June 24 that he had vetoed House Bill 472, which expanded the strict photo ID requirement Ohio has had for voting since 2023.
The Republican governor issued an unusually lengthy ... (full story)
How Americans are feeling about the country's 250th anniversary, according to new polls
WASHINGTON (AP) — Duane Mitchell has big plans for America's 250th anniversary.
Mitchell, a 78-year-old veteran in Montana, plans to take a red, white and blue 1954 Chevrolet pickup that he restored and drive it in local parades for the Fourth of July. In honor of the country’s milestone anniversary, he bought a deco ... (full story)
Today in History: July 2, Civil Rights Act signed into law
Today in History
Today is Thursday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2026. There are 182 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress prohibiting discrimination and segregation based on race, color, sex, rel ... (full story)
State
Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the maker of the Roundup weedkiller June 25 in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts ... (full story)
AP's first journalist killed in action was at the Battle of Little Bighorn 150 years ago
They've died from artillery fire, aircraft crashes, gunfire, disease — even by execution — in conflict zones and elsewhere around the world.
Over the 180-year history of The Associated Press, 38 journalists have fallen on the job while working for the independent not-for-profit news organization.
June 25 marked t ... (full story)
Charlie Brown's longtime pen pal is finally revealed in new Apple TV 'Peanuts' movie
NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Brown began writing to a pen pal not long after the comic strip “Peanuts” debuted in newspapers back in 1950. No one has gotten a look at whoever was on the other end of his letters — until now.
Her name is Mia, and she's a young girl from London of South Asian descent who uses a w ... (full story)