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Many experts contend that investing is key to building wealth. But there are right and wrong ways to go about it. Of course, that doesn't mean you need to become a stock market guru to try your hand at it. Rather, it can help to familiarize yourself with common mistakes investors tend to make, so you won't end up repeating them. If you can do that, "can be enough to give you the edge you're looking for" in your investing journey, said Kiplinger. Here are six investing mistakes, and how to avoid them. Читать дальше...

The top-selling U.S. beer in May was a Mexican import, Modelo Especial, and not perennial top-seller Bud Light, according to new data from Nielsen and beverage consultancy Bump Williams. Modelo accounted for 8.4% of U.S. retail-store beer sales in the four weeks ending June 3, versus 7.3% for Bud Light, which overtook Budweiser as America's top seller in 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported. Bud Light's sales were down about 24% in May compared with a year earlier.

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Can young people fight climate change with a lawsuit? A group of young Montanans is trying, The Associated Press reported, going to "a first-of-a kind trial of a lawsuit that environmentalists hope will spur changes in the fossil fuel-friendly state." The state constitution contains a clause guaranteeing the right to a "clean and healthful environment," and the plaintiffs — 16 Montanans, aged 5 to 22 — say the state's pro-carbon policies threaten their future.

If you're a working actor, FOMO is just part of the job description. Even Hollywood's biggest stars have been rejected time and time again, but seemingly every actor also has a story or two about turning down a part, not realizing the massive hit they let slip through their fingers. From "The Matrix" and "Titanic" to "Pulp Fiction" and "Game of Thrones," here's how some of your film and TV favorites could have looked much different had an actor not passed on one of the leads: 

The case against former President Donald Trump, as laid out in the Justice Department's indictment on 37 counts of "willfully" and carelessly hoarding military secrets and obstructing the government's attempts to get them back, is "very, very damning," as former Attorney General William Barr assessed on Fox News. "If even half of it is true, then he's toast." But even if special counsel Jack Smith has Trump dead to rights legally, that doesn't mean the former president is necessarily heading to prison. Читать дальше...

Many Republicans have rallied around former President Donald Trump following his indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents. One common notion is that charging or even imprisoning a former American president would set a bad precedent for nations around the world. 

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts in a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday afternoon, becoming the first former president arraigned on federal criminal charges. The arraignment "was historic — yet virtually invisible to the public," The Associated Press reported. No cameras, cellphones, or other electronic devices were allowed in the courtroom or the overflow room.