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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting raised expectations that the central bank will move faster to raise interest rates to fight inflation. The S&P 500 fell 1.9%. Drops in major technology stocks were the biggest weight
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting raised expectations that the central bank will move faster to raise interest rates to fight inflation. The S&P 500 fell 1.9%. Drops in major technology stocks were the biggest weight
Continue Reading By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A man is facing charges after an Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to death during a home visit in a town south of Springfield. Sangamon County authorities say 36-year-old Diedre Silas was conducting a welfare check at a home in Thayer on Tuesday afternoon
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By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kirk Cousins has returned to the Minnesota Vikings from COVID-19 reserve. He missed the previous game while experiencing mild symptoms. That loss at Green Bay eliminated the Vikings from contention for the playoffs. They play Chicago on Sunday in a meaningless finale game. Vikings coach
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN In a sweeping speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Capitol attack, Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back on criticism that the Justice Department’s January 6 probe has not been aggressive enough, while signaling that no one would be off limits as prosecutors “followed the facts.” “The actions we have
Continue Reading BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — A judge has denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding another at a northern Illinois hotel last week. Judge Kathy Bradshaw-Elliott’s denial of bail to 25-year-old Darius Sullivan on Wednesday came two days after she denied it to his 26-year-old co-defendant, Xandria
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man has been refunded the $600 he was charged for an Uber ride that became trapped with hundreds of others on an icy stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia this week. WTOP-FM reports that Andrew Peters was returning from San Francisco and taking an Uber from Dulles International Airport
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man has been refunded the $600 he was charged for an Uber ride that became trapped with hundreds of others on an icy stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia this week. WTOP-FM reports that Andrew Peters was returning from San Francisco and taking an Uber from Dulles International Airport
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers say she’ll request a new trial after revelations by a juror in her case that he was a victim of sexual abuse. Her lawyers said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan on Wednesday that the court should order a
Continue ReadingBy AnneClaire Stapleton and Jessie Yeung, CNN Nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic may not be able to defend his 2021 title after his visa to enter Australia was canceled following an outcry over his controversial “medical exemption” from the country’s coronavirus vaccination rules. Djokovic, the men’s tennis world no.1, hasn’t publicly revealed his vaccination
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Nine children are among the 12 people killed following a fire at two apartment units owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood Wednesday morning. The Philadelphia Fire Department arrived to heavy flames at the building on the 800
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL, not surprisingly in the midst of a rise in COVID-19 cases, has looked into other potential sites for next month’s Super Bowl. That’s not unusual because the league does so every year. But with Los Angeles the site for this year’s title game, and restrictions increasing for attendance at
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PHOENIX (AP) — Higher than normal student absentee rates were reported Wednesday in metro Phoenix, where many school districts resumed classes even as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surged across Arizona. The state’s COVID-19 hospitalizations increased for the fourth straight day as Arizona’s seven-day rolling averages for virus cases and deaths rose over two weeks. There
Continue Reading By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press Parents who send their children to a day care center in Arlington, Texas, will be able to breathe easier after the city refused to let a major energy company drill more gas wells a few hundred feet from the center’s playground. The Arlington City Council voted 5-4
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urielblanco (CNN) — Una publicación propalestinos en Instagram que hizo la estrella de Hollywood Emma Watson desató acusaciones de antisemitismo por parte de políticos de Israel, y también una reacción en contra de lo que muchos consideran una utilización cínica del término con el fin de atacar a los partidarios de la causa de los
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Wall Street ended Wednesday’s session sharply lower, as investors dealt with Omicron headlines as well as the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes that confirmed the central bank has its foot on the stimulus brakes. The Dow, which hit a record high Tuesday, closed down 1.1%, or 393
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve policymakers at a meeting last month said the U.S. job market was nearly at levels healthy enough that the central bank’s low-interest rate policies were no longer needed. That’s according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday. The minutes also said that Fed officials
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD released a new photo of the gunman they say killed a Brooklyn woman and her dog over the weekend inside a bodega. Police sources tell CBS2 the victim was not the intended target, but rather an innocent bystander. Investigators
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El líder opositor venezolano Juan Guaidó, reconocido como presidente encargado de Venezuela por Estados Unidos y algunos países europeos, descartó este miércoles que se pueda llevar un proceso de negociaciones directas entre el gobierno del cuestionado presidente Nicolás Maduro y Estados Unidos. Al mismo tiempo insistió en que se debe
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL, not surprisingly in the midst of a rise in COVID-19 cases, has looked into other potential sites for next month’s Super Bowl. That’s not unusual because the league does so every year. But with Los Angeles the site for this year’s title game, and restrictions increasing for attendance at
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