By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose modestly in late morning trading on Wall Street Thursday and are on track to end a mostly miserable August on an up note. The S&P 500 rose 0.2%. The benchmark index still on track for its first monthly loss since February, but
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Kia is recalling about 320,000 cars in the U.S. to fix a problem that could prevent the trunk from being opened from the inside. The recall covers the Optima midsize car from 2016 through 2018, Optima hybrids and plug-ins from 2017 and 2018, and the Rio small car from 2016 and 2017.
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say nearly 200 more migrants have reached Greece’s Aegean Sea islands in boats from Turkey. That includes 51 people who came ashore on the high-end resort of Mykonos. The new arrivals come amid a steady rise in migration to the European Union country, which officials mostly attribute to better
Continue ReadingBy Evan Sobol and Eliza Kruczynski Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Connecticut (WFSB) — A man caught a shark while paddleboarding in the Long Island Sound off the coast of Madison. Eddie Carroll got the catch on video and posted it to Instagram. Carroll was fishing in the Bluefish Tournament over the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has visited a city in Fukushima, where he ate a seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce to show they are safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — August began with a bright supermoon and will end the same way as another one lights up the night sky this week. The ringed planet Saturn will also make its closest and brightest appearance of the year near the moon. The full moon will peak at 9:36 p.m. ET
Continue ReadingPEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say five were shot and wounded, two of them critically, in a hail of bullets in the central Illinois city of Peoria. Police said in a news release that the shooting happened at around 9 p.m. Wednesday and that 29 shots were fired. The news release didn’t say whether police
Continue ReadingJack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hollywood star Florence Pugh has spoken out once again on the criticism she received last year for wearing a sheer dress which left her nipples visible, saying “it’s the freedom that people are scared of.” The “Oppenheimer” star used an interview with Elle magazine, published Wednesday, to revisit the body-shaming
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow. Dmitry Utkin died in an Aug. 23 plane crash that killed all 10 people on board, including Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his other top lieutenants. The crash between
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua has been dreaming about taking the Equalizer abroad for years. The action franchise (very loosely based on a 1980s television series) starring Denzel Washington as the reluctant assassin Robert McCall had rooted itself in humble domestic beginnings, in Boston. But after two films and $382.7 million
Continue ReadingLEVANT, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine arrested a 23-year-old on charges of attempting to break into the home of Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship. Police said they responded to the property in the early morning hours of Monday and the suspect had already fled in a vehicle. They said the property
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg, forcing some to throw babies out of third-story windows in a desperate attempt to save them and leaving at least 73 people dead early Thursday, witnesses
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening modestly higher on Wall Street, on track to end a mostly miserable August on an up note. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in early Thursday. It’s still on track for its first monthly loss since February. The Dow rose 165 points, or 0.5%. The Nasdaq composite was
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Kia is recalling about 320,000 cars in the U.S. to fix a problem that could prevent the trunk from being opened from the inside. The recall covers the Optima midsize car from 2016 through 2018, Optima hybrids and plug-ins from 2017 and 2018, and the Rio small car from 2016 and 2017.
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Two Trump co-defendants in Georgia who requested speedy trials asked a judge Wednesday to formally separate their cases from the sprawling overall indictment, a move that would undercut Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ attempt to hold one massive trial for all 19 defendants in the election interference case.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Russian man of plotting the murder of an exiled Chechen dissident on orders from a cousin of Chechnya’s strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. The court in Munich sentenced the defendant to 10 years in prison. He was convicted of agreeing to commit murder, preparing a serious act
Continue ReadingBy Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Lewis Hamilton will remain a Mercedes driver in Formula One until at least the end of the 2025 season after the team announced a contract extension on Thursday. Hamilton, who shares the record for most F1 world titles with Michael Schumacher (seven), joined Mercedes in 2013 after starting his
Continue ReadingNORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. (AP) — No injuries or hazardous spills have been reported in a train derailment in a southeastern South Dakota town. The Union County Emergency Management office says the derailment happened shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday in North Sioux City along the Iowa border. Officials say 19 cars derailed as the train
Continue ReadingBy Zac Summers Click here for updates on this story DECATUR, Georgia (WANF) — A Dekalb County school bus driver is recovering from a reported assault that happened while children were onboard the bus. The incident happened Tuesday afternoon as the bus driver was taking home students from Chapel Hill Elementary School. The DeKalb County
Continue ReadingBy Rayvin Bleu and Hannah Mose Click here for updates on this story BIG RAPIDS, Michigan (WNEM) — Furry friends are flocking to Ferris State as students there now have the chance to bring their companions to their dorms. “Ferris just really listened to the voices of our students. They requested this, they encourage this,
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