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By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed its record pace of interest rate increases. But not by much. The bank decided Thursday meeting to hike rates by half a percentage point instead of three-quarters of a point after inflation fell unexpectedly in November. That’s still a
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A kangaroo hopped its way through a Jefferson County neighborhood on Sunday morning. Leaving her High Ridge driveway, Julia Hidemann met her new, rather exotic, neighbor. You can see in a video from Hidemann the kangaroo hopping up the road.
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut back their retail spending last month as the holiday shopping season began amid high prices and rising interest rates that are forcing some families, particularly those with lower incomes, curtail their consumption. The government said Thursday that retail sales fell 0.6%
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A group of PGA West residents banded together to bring some holiday cheer to the family of an Indio woman who recently lost her daughter. Alejandra Lomeli works as a food server at a restaurant at PGA West. Catherine Foss who is a member of a bunco group within the PGA West community said when
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By Michelle Watson and Jason Hanna, CNN One of the three University of Virginia football players shot dead as they returned from a field trip last month was on the phone with his mother just before the shooting, she told NBC. D’Sean Perry, 22, had been talking to his mom, Happy Perry, but “his cell
Continue ReadingBy Shoshana Stahl Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A local artist is drawing more attention to banned books in Missouri. After a new law took effect in August, some books are no longer allowed at schools in the state. David Ruggeri is taking the topic of banned books
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN The family of a Palestinian activist who died while in Palestinian Authority custody has filed a “war crimes and torture” case with the International Criminal Court, they said Thursday. Nizar Banat, a well-known Palestinian critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA) with a large social media following, died in
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Ocho meses después de que el presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, anunciara una guerra contra las pandillas, se estima que el 2% de la población adulta del país —aproximadamente 100.000 personas— está ahora tras las rejas. La represión de Bukele este año, provocada por una ola de asesinatos sangrientos por
Continue Reading Shares of Tesla are sliding before the market open on Thursday after news broke that CEO Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of the electric vehicle maker’s stock this week. The stock slipped to $153 in premarket trading and is nearing two-year lows. Musk, the new owner of Twitter, sold the shares from Monday
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As the holiday nears, The United States Postal Service wants to ensure people get their packages out on time so it’s delivered by the holidays. USPS Holiday Shipping Deadlines for Contiguous U.S. (Lower 48 States): December 17: USPS Retail Ground Service, First-Class Mail ServiceDecember 19: Priority Mail ServiceDecember 23: Priority Mail Express Service USPS Holiday
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Central banks in Europe on Thursday joined the US Federal Reserve in slowing down the pace of interest rate hikes as decades-high inflation shows signs of easing. The Bank of England and the European Central Bank both hiked rates by half a percentage point in their final meetings of the year.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Interior Ministry says a gift that the country’s top police commander received during a recent visit to Ukraine exploded at national police headquarters in Warsaw. The ministry said the the explosion in a room next to the commander’s office on Wednesday morning caused him and a civilian employee to suffer
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut back their retail spending last month as the holiday shopping season began amid high prices and rising interest rates that are forcing some families, particularly those with lower incomes, curtail their consumption. The government said Thursday that retail sales fell 0.6%
Continue ReadingCNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell to 211,000 for the week ended December 10, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Labor. That’s a drop of 20,000 from the previous week’s total, which was upwardly revised to 231,000; and the lowest level since September. Economists
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Consillio Click here for updates on this story HAWAII (KITV) — Despite higher interest rates, Josh and Arianna Graham recently took out a loan for a second home so that their three young children will be able to live here in the future. “It doesn’t stop us from borrowing money because like living
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The president of the European Union’s Parliament says the assembly is reviewing its files involving Qatar to see if any pressure was exerted on EU lawmakers. The European Parliament has been rocked by a cash for influence scandal that has seen four charged in Belgium, including a
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story KEITHVILLE, Louisiana (KTBS) — There’s only half a roof on the mobile home Presley Stevens shared with her family. The rest was peeled off Tuesday night when an EF2 tornado blowing approximately 130 mph dropped into the Pecans Farm neighborhood in southwest Caddo Parish. Presley
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN A sheriff in Washington state who was accused of tailing a Black man delivering newspapers and falsely accusing the man of threatening his life has been found not guilty on related charges. Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer was charged with false reporting and making a false or misleading statement to a
Continue Reading TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Court officials say an Albanian court has convicted an Iranian man on terrorism-related charges and sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment. In a ruling issued Wednesday but made public a day later, Albania’s Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime found Bijan Pooladrag guilty of funding terrorism and being a member
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A young boy and his mother were found dead in the wooded area of the Pecan Farms subdivision in southwest Caddo Parish west of Keithville, where their home was destroyed by a tornado Tuesday evening. Sheriff’s deputies, K-9 teams firefighters and
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