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Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] – A framework that gives finance and engineering teams visibility, discipline and governance to capture AI’s efficiency gains at a time when AI spend is growing up to four times faster than the value enterprises realize from it – ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Speridian Technologies […]

Tennessee-based RIA with approximately $300 million in AUM joins Cetera as W-2 employees SAN DIEGO, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cetera Financial Group, Inc. (“Cetera”) has acquired the assets of Marmo Financial Group, a Johnson City, Tennessee-based independent registered investment adviser (“RIA”) managing approximately $300 million in AUM1 across approximately 620 clients. With the transaction […]

By JAMEY KEATEN Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] GENEVA (AP) — Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization’s annual assembly on Monday with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious “pandemic treaty” ran aground last week. Health officials are racing to get the world to agree […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mishap” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people. The strike only added to the surging international […]

By LINDSEY BAHR Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Furiosa won the holiday box office over Garfield by a hair. It was a close race, but the wasteland warrior of “ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ” came out slightly ahead of the plump orange cat with an estimated $32 million in ticket sales […]

By BRUCE SCHREINER and JULIO CORTEZ Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 22 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages. The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas […]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] After a chaotic end to the regular season in college football, the matchups are set for the first 12-team version of the College Football Playoff. The first-round games are Dec. 20-21 on campuses before the games shift to bowl games for the quarterfinals and […]

By ARIANA CUBILLOS, ADRIAN NARANJO and PEDRO MATTHEW Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within about a minute of each other on Wednesday, causing buildings to collapse and damage in Caracas. The rare back-to-back tremors, measuring magnitudes 7.1 and 7.5, rank among the strongest earthquakes […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump spoke personally with the chief executive of Live Nation in the weeks before the Justice Department abruptly settled its longstanding antitrust lawsuit against the entertainment giant and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, the company revealed in a court filing. Lawyers for Live Nation […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage, collapsing buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets. The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes roiled the region, with buildings evacuated in cities as far away as Brazil’s Amazon, about 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) from Caracas. In a brief address […]