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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered in morning trading on Wall Street as investors received another dire readout on inflation. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% as of 10:26 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 142 points, or 0.5%, to 31,814 and the Nasdaq was little changed%.
Continue Reading By ASHIFA KASSAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government says the land borders between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will reopen next week. They were closed for more than two years due to COVID-19 restrictions and tensions between the two countries. Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters
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Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Contestar las preguntas del censo en Argentina es obligatorio: si no lo haces, o si mientes en tus respuestas, puedes recibir una multa. Sin embargo, eso no significa necesariamente que no puedas abandonar la casa en ningún momento del día. Aquí te explicamos cómo funciona. Este miércoles 18 de mayo
Continue Reading By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Finland’s leaders Thursday came out in favor of applying to join NATO, and Sweden could do the same within days, in a historic realignment on the continent 2 1/2 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine sent a shiver of fear through Moscow’s neighbors.
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Somebody cue the stock market’s park ranger: Bears are having a picnic on Wall Street this year. The meltdown of 2022 has wiped out more than $7 trillion in market value from the blue chip stocks in the S&P 500. The index is down nearly 18% since the
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The manager of a casino at a central Las Vegas strip mall was killed Wednesday evening when run over by a man fleeing after snatching a purse from a patron playing a video poker machine, Las police said. The manager confronted the purse-snatcher after he went outside and got into a
Continue Reading LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Southern California Edison has advised state utility regulators that unspecified electrical “circuit activity” occurred around the time a destructive wildfire erupted in the coastal community of Laguna Niguel. The Coastal Fire was reported around 2:43 p.m. Wednesday in the Orange County city where expensive homes line ridges with sweeping views
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission is proposing to help Ukraine move its critical grain supplies to parts of the world at risk of food insecurity. The plan released Thursday by the European Union’s executive arm urges rail, road and river routes to get around a Russian blockade of Black
Continue Reading Victoria Fernandez (CNN) — Una aerolínea alemana se disculpó después de que a principios de este mes se denegara el embarque a un gran número de pasajeros judíos en un vuelo de conexión en un aeropuerto de Frankfurt porque, según la compañía, un número “limitado” de ellos no siguieron las normas sobre mascarillas y otras
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CNN, WPTZ, WCVB By Laura Studley, CNN A 28-year-old man who allegedly killed his mother and grandfather to get family and insurance money was charged with murder and fraud, according to a federal indictment filed in Vermont. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday. He is accused in the death of his mother, Linda Carman, during a
Continue Reading By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Officials say an explosion and fire at a chemical plant in southeast Slovenia has left at least four people missing and feared dead. Emergency officials said another two people were hospitalized in critical condition with severe burns after the blast, which was reported around 8.30 a.m.
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged up again this week, with interest on the key 30-year loan at its highest level since 2009. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate ticked up to 5.3% from 5.27% last week. By contrast, the average rate
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates moved higher this week, continuing an upward trend that has kept rates above 5% since mid-April. The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.30% in the week ending May 12, up from 5.27% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. It is the highest since 2009 and well above the
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business Within the often head-scratching world of cryptocurrencies, there’s a small but growing sub-species known as “algorithmic stablecoins” that have some investors and regulators ringing alarm bells. This week, one popular so-called algo coin cratered, wiping out billions of dollars’ worth of value in just a few days. The coin, called
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 292,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix a problem that could cause the brakes to fail or perform poorly. The recall covers certain ML, GL and R-Class vehicles from the 2006 through 2012 model years. Mercedes says in documents posted Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Al menos 20 casas quedaron en medio del incendio en el área de Laguna Hills, condado de Orange en California, este miércoles, cuando un incendio forestal se propagó rápidamente y se extendió a residencias que resultaron destruidas o con daños, informó un funcionario. ¿Qué causa los incendios forestales, por qué son cada
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct observation confirming the presence of the black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, as the beating heart of the Milky Way. Black holes don’t emit light, but the
Continue Reading WPTZ, WCVB, ABC NEWS, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Laura Studley, CNN A 28-year-old man who allegedly killed his mother and grandfather to get family and insurance money was charged with murder and fraud, according to a federal indictment filed in Vermont. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday. He is accused in the death of his mother,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski is sharing why original female cast members from “Top Gun” were not invited to participate in the film’s sequel. In an interview with “Insider,” Kosinski said he did not consider bringing back Kelly McGillis, who played the love interest of Tom Cruise’s character, “Maverick”
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are off to another weak start on Wall Street Thursday as more declines in big technology companies weighed on the broader market. Investors got another dire readout on inflation as the government reported that wholesale prices soared 11% in April from a year earlier. The report on the producer price
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