By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Premarket trading is muted ahead of an inflation report and a survey of how American consumers are feeling about the economy. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were essentially flat before the bell Tuesday. The Conference Board will publish an update
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Hungary’s capital next month. It will be his second trip to the Budapest this year. The Dec. 18 visit comes as both countries remain the only NATO members not to have ratified Sweden’s accession into the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
Continue ReadingBy Denise Pridgen Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A man was arrested Thanksgiving morning after being caught inside a south Asheville business. Asheville police responded to a breaking and entering in progress at the business near the 1650 block of Hendersonville Road about 10 a.m. Nov. 23. When
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A violent rock burst in a coal mine has killed 11 people in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province. Mining work can release pressure from surrounding formations and trigger a literal explosion of rocks. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reports an initial assessment determined that is what caused the fatalities in Heilongjiang province on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are arguing that he had a good faith basis to question the outcome of the 2020 election that he lost. A defense motion filed late Monday in federal court in Washington asserts that Trump was not obligated to accept at face value
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life in Hamas captivity. The 10-month-old was abducted from his home in a southern Israeli kibbutz on Oct. 7, when Palestinian militants snatched about 240 people and dragged them to Gaza. Despite being the youngest captive,
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A truce between Israel and Hamas entered its fifth day on Tuesday, with the militant group promising to release more hostages to delay the expected resumption of the war and Israel under growing pressure to spare Palestinian civilians when it renews its
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says the Philippine government and the country’s communist rebels have agreed to resume talks aimed at ending decades of armed conflict. Norway’s foreign ministry says high-ranking delegations from both sides met in Oslo last week and agreed to a “common vision for peace” that
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Avdiivka, Ucrania (CNN) — “Chicos, déjenme aquí. No puedo caminar”, suplica un soldado ucraniano sentado en una estrecha trinchera bajo constante bombardeo ruso. Tiene las piernas heridas por la metralla y sangra a través de los vendajes. Fuma un cigarrillo mientras yace en el suelo, al tiempo que el médico de la
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers there, Google announced Tuesday. Getting electrons onto the grid for the first time is a milestone many new energy companies never reach, said Tim Latimer, CEO and co-founder of Google’s geothermal partner
Continue ReadingBy MARIAM FAM Associated Press The woman refused to sell Captain Saleha Jabeen a hijab to don with her military uniform. While many civilian Muslims tell Jabeen she makes them proud, others are horrified by her decision to serve. “You’re gonna go kill Muslims,” the store owner told her that day. Major Rafael Lantigua Jr.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — A 48-hour extension to the Israel-Hamas truce will not pause the strategic dilemmas and political headaches wracking the Biden administration over the war. Although the two extra days of hostage releases, the release of Palestinian prisoners and humanitarian aid pouring into Gaza validate an intense diplomatic effort in
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has tapped a former minister from the center-left Labor Party to investigate possible coalitions. The move comes a day after Wilders’ first choice quit amid fraud allegations. Ahead of a meeting Tuesday that confirmed the appointment of Ronald Plasterk
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German-Israeli singer who claimed he had been turned away from a hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant has admitted during a defamation trial against him that he made up the story. The proceedings against Gil
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — The world’s biggest cruise ship is now in the hands of its new owner, with Royal Caribbean accepting delivery of the 1,198-foot Icon of the Seas this week. The 20-deck, 250,800-tonne ship was officially handed over to the cruise company at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland, on November
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Latvia’s foreign minister is staking a claim to the top job at NATO. Krisjanis Karins says NATO needs a consensus builder who is committed to defense spending and has a clear vision of how to handle Russia. NATO is likely to name a new secretary general at
Continue ReadingUTTARKASHI, India (AP) — Rescuers in India were on the verge Tuesday of reaching 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country’s north, after drilling their way through debris to get to them, officials said. A member of the National Disaster Management Authority overseeing rescue efforts at
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CNN By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Rachel Clarke, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Emily Hand had to run from house to house, forced to move by Hamas as Israeli forces attacked Gaza, her father Thomas Hand told CNN. “That’s terrifying. Being pulled, dragged, pushed … under gunfire probably,” he said on Tuesday. It’s one of
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s been a topsy-turvy year for markets, but the S&P 500 hit a four-month high last week and a growing chorus of analysts says that momentum will continue into 2024. A few of them even believe that the benchmark index will reach a new all-time high
Continue ReadingBy Maria Kostenko, Victoria Butenko and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A haul of Ukrainian treasures sent to Europe for an exhibition nearly 10 years ago have been returned to Kyiv from the Netherlands after a lengthy legal battle. The collection of ancient artifacts was dispatched to the Netherlands from four museums in Crimea before
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