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Stock expectations
Q. Some stocks rise on good news about the company while others don't. Why? -- T.H., Venice, Florida
A. It all depends on what investors have been expecting. For example, if they've expected earnings to grow by 12% and the company reports 10% growth, the stock might drop. Some news may already be baked into the stock price, too. ... (full story)
Mexico's heritage shines as resorts put culture over cliche
A new Deloitte study projects Mexico will be the fifth most visited country worldwide by 2040, as global interest drives tourism growth. Despite a drop in international travel to the United States, Americans are leaving the country more than ever, and our neighbor to the south remains a favorite destination. Luxury and millennial tr ... (full story)
California wants to mix hydrogen with gas to cut climate pollution. Critics say that poses risks
Alma Figueroa began to worry when she learned that her gas provider wanted to test a controversial solution to curb global warming: blend hydrogen with natural gas to power her stove and other appliances. Figueroa, who has asthma and recently learned her lung cancer is back, worries about health risks.
"I don't want to be a ... (full story)
Local
Venezuela's oil industry has flailed under government control – Mexico and Brazil have had more success with nationalizing
(THE CONVERSATION) U.S. President Donald Trump has ignited a contentious debate over who has the right to control Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
Speaking on Jan. 3, 2026, after the U.S. military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. president declared, "We built Venezuela's oil industry, and now we're ... (full story)
State
George Floyd and Renee Good: 5 years between Minneapolis videos, and confusion has increased
Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his life slipped away ignited a social movement.
Now, videos from another Minneapolis street showing the last moments of Renee Good's life are central to another debate about law enforcement in America. They've ... (full story)
China and Japan, uneasy neighbors in East Asia, are at odds again
BEIJING (AP) — They're at it again.
China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other's rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And it's over the same sticking points that have kept them resentful and suspici ... (full story)
US Christian leaders minister to an anxious diaspora with Venezuela's future in flux
Faith leaders who minister to Christians in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States are urging prayers for peace as they attend to congregations roiled by uncertainty and high emotions following the U.S. capture of deposed leader Nicolás Maduro.
In Venezuela, initial statements from the Catholic bishops ... (full story)
How Americans feel about crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe, according to an AP-NORC poll
NEW YORK (AP) — Quintin Sharpe considers it a duty to support those without means. Whether collecting food pantry goods through local service groups or helping out his parents' nonprofit music school, he regularly gives back to his small-town waterside community in southeast Wisconsin.
But the 27-year-old wealth manager en ... (full story)