By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street Thursday, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below the record highs they set a day earlier. The benchmark S&P 500 gave up 0.3%. The Dow and the Nasdaq each fell 0.2%. Trading
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By Lauren del Valle and Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN A New York jury ruled Thursday in a landmark trial that Teva Pharmaceuticals contributed to decades of opioid addiction and deaths in New York state. The jury’s decision marks a conclusion to New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against a wide swath of the pharmaceutical supply
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street Thursday, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below the record highs they set a day earlier. The benchmark S&P 500 gave up 0.3%. The Dow and the Nasdaq each fell 0.2%. Trading
Continue Reading HONOLULU (AP) — Military officials tell Hawaii lawmakers that they need more time to flush jet fuel from their Pearl Harbor water system. Navy leaders addressed state lawmakers Wednesday, saying they hope to finish flushing the Navy’s system by the end of January. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the Navy said in early December that they
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN It took decades of advocacy and effort, but a national African American museum now stands on the National Mall. After legislation that passed last year, national museums dedicated to Latinos and women are also in the works. Now, one lawmaker wants Asian Americans to have a museum of their own, too.
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Authorities today were investigating what they believe to be a murder-suicide in Whitewater. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department responded to a welfare call in the 13000 block of Mesquite Road at 5:37 p.m. Tuesday due to the reporting party having not heard from the residence’s homeowner in some time. According to Sgt. Richard Carroll,
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s mountain snow holds 160% of the water it normally does at the end of December. That’s according to officials from the state Department of Water Resources, who measured the snowpack on Thursday in the Sierra Nevada. The measurement marks a strong start to the drought-stricken
Continue Reading By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s mountain snow holds 160% of the water it normally does at the end of December. That’s according to officials from the state Department of Water Resources, who measured the snowpack on Thursday in the Sierra Nevada. The measurement marks a strong start to the drought-stricken
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk group, a satirist and an art collector as “foreign agents” as part of efforts to stifle dissent. The Justice Ministry on Thursday applied the label to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. She is a Pussy Riot member who became widely known for taking part
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By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield downplayed death threats he received following his four-interception performance at Green Bay, and called his social media critics “keyboard warriors that make empty threats.” Mayfield didn’t provide details on the threats, first revealed in an Instagram post earlier this week by his
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El banco Santander de Reino Unido se metió en el espíritu navideño este año al pagar un total de 130 millones de libras esterlinas (US$ 175 millones) a sus clientes por error el 25 de diciembre. El pago total se dividió en 75.000 transacciones para alrededor de 2.000 clientes corporativos y
Continue Reading By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to go on cruises, regardless of their vaccination status, because of onboard outbreaks fueled by the omicron variant. The CDC says it has more than 90 cruise ships under investigation or observation as a
Continue Reading By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to go on cruises, regardless of their vaccination status, because of onboard outbreaks fueled by the omicron variant. The CDC says it has more than 90 cruise ships under investigation or observation as a
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A 41-year-old man accused of causing a DUI crash in downtown Palm Springs that left one person dead and six others injured pleaded not guilty to all charges. Andrew Watson Hibbard of Portland, Oregon was arrested Monday at around 5 p.m. following a five-vehicle crash at the intersection of North Palm Canyon Drive and Alejo
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Barcelona squad has swelled to 10 and it potentially jeopardizes the team’s return to league play after Spain’s winter break of nearly two weeks. Sergiño Dest, Philippe Coutinho and Abde Ezzalzouli are the latest players to contract COVID-19. They
Continue Reading By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Shane Beamer had a bucket of mayonnaise dumped over his head, putting a messy finish on the Gamecocks’ 38-21 victory over North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. Jaheim Bell had five catches for 159 yards and two touchdowns for South Carolina,
Continue Reading By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press Authorities say a 2-year-old Alaska boy has been killed by his guardians months after his father strangled his mother. Pleas of not guilty were entered for Steven Melovidov and Sophie Myers-Melovidov during court hearings Thursday. Troopers say the boy was flown from St. Paul Island to an Anchorage area
Continue Reading PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Ron Harper Jr. scored 19 points, Clifford Omoruyi had 14 points and eight rebounds and Rutgers beat Maine 80-64. Rutgers hadn’t played since Dec. 12, a 77-63 loss to No. 23 Seton Hall, following a pause due to COVID-19. Aundre Hyatt gave Rutgers a 33-22 lead during an 11-0 run late
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The flurry of lawsuits filed in recent weeks trying to stop the House January 6 committee’s subpoenas are revealing, in many ways, the opposite: That the House has been largely successful at sweeping up documents for the probe and interviewing dozens of major witnesses. A throughline in many
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks edged higher on Wall Street in afternoon trading Thursday, as gains in health care and communication companies outweighed a pullback in technology and other sectors. Trading was relatively quiet with many investors having closed out their positions for the year. The S&P 500 and Dow were hovering just
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