By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted on Wall Street Wednesday as trading remains relatively light ahead of the New Year holiday. The S&P 500 rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 42 points, or 0.1% as of 10:03 a.m. Eastern. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.2%. Markets are
Continue ReadingBy Cassidy Williams Click here for updates on this story CONNECTICUT (WFSB) — Former Stone Academy students are now suing Connecticut state officials. The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Tuesday December 26th. The students are also suing Stone Academy and its owners. This new lawsuit seeks to hold state officials accountable for what
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Inside the Numbers dives into NFL statistics, streaks and trends each week. For more Inside the Numbers, head here. ___ Several receivers had milestone performances this past week, but no one could do what Amari Cooper did for the Cleveland Browns. Cooper caught 11 passes for a franchise-record
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KSAT, LEON VALLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT, CNN By Paradise Afshar and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two bodies found inside a car, believed to belong to a missing Texas teen who was nine months pregnant and her boyfriend, each had a gunshot wound, police said Wednesday. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters earlier on
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Altos funcionarios estadounidenses viajarán a México este miércoles para buscar más ayuda de sus homólogos para reducir los cruces fronterizos mientras el presidente Joe Biden enfrenta una presión cada vez mayor sobre el manejo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos. La inmigración ha sido una vulnerabilidad política para Biden, en
Continue ReadingBy A.J. Bayatpour Click here for updates on this story PEWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — It doesn’t take much for Jason Berg to start feeling a debilitating pain in the right side of his face. Brushing his teeth, talking and feeling a stiff breeze on a chilly day are all things that can cause extreme discomfort.
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot. It said in an order that
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heat exhaustion is the cause of death of a Brazilian fan who attended a concert of singer Taylor Swift in November, according to a forensics report obtained by The Associated Press. 23-year-old Ana Clara Benevides passed out during Swift’s second song in the Nov. 17
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Con los generosos premios gordos de la lotería Powerball, muchos no estadounidenses se estarán preguntando si pueden probar suerte. La respuesta es sí, pero si pueden acceder a la compra de los boletos. Para jugar a la popular lotería, que acumula el segundo pozo más grande de su historia,
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Eagle Pass se ha convertido en un punto álgido de la crisis migratoria en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, donde miles de inmigrantes cruzan todos los días con la esperanza de recibir asilo y no ser deportados. Inmigrantes esperan ser procesados en un centro de tránsito de la
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says the former president of a top division soccer team who was jailed for punching a referee has been released on bail. Faruk Koca resigned as president of MKE Ankaragucu after punching referee Halil Umut Meler. Koca attacked Meler after the final whistle of a 1-1 draw
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTAGE, Indiana (WWJ) — Two men out looking for fishing holes in Northwest Indiana came across a driver whose truck had crashed off Interstate 94 – and who said he had been stuck for nearly a week. As CBS 2’s Marybel González reported, everything about
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has praised Japan’s contribution to their military alliance, particularly a decision to allow Japanese-made Patriot guided missiles to be shipped to the United States to make up for its decreasing inventory. In a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara on
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN WINFREY Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WWJ) — Dancing his way around the globe, an Inkster native is taking the spirit of Motown from coast to coast and across seas one dance move at a time. “They call me ‘Mike Manson dat be Dancin’,” said Michael Manson Jr. “What I
Continue ReadingCNN By CNN staff (CNN) — The 2024 GOP presidential primary kicks off in January with Republican front-runner Donald Trump campaigning to win nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire while facing his own legal challenges. Here are key dates to watch as some of the former president’s legal woes and important election dates come
Continue ReadingBy Marianna Cerini, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — When Italian designer Giacomo Moor was tasked with creating furniture for a school in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya last fall, he knew instantly what he wanted to make: Pieces that were functional, straightforward and easy to assemble. “‘Simplification’ was the word that immediately came to mind,”
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HUDAK Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A vandal was caught on camera bashing a South Florida restaurant with a rock on Christmas morning, but it wasn’t the first time that the business was targeted. The man was seen using unconventional methods to vandalize Meson Ria De Vigo,
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It’s a festive old English drink that you can have fun experimenting with. Sloe gin can be used in New Year’s Eve cocktails hot and cold, from a Hot Sloe Gin Punch or a spiked hot chocolate to the classic Sloe Gin Fizz, on ice. You can
Continue ReadingPORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Police say a man who had been trapped for days in his crashed pickup truck has been rescued in northwest Indiana. State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield says two men were scouting fishing locations when they found the man in his badly damaged vehicle Tuesday. The pickup had wrecked along Interstate 94
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A main opposition candidate in Congo accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest in the capital as demonstrators demanded a re-do of last week’s presidential election. Martin Fayulu told The Associated Press that the bullet landed near him while he was barricaded
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