By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index and S&P 500 broke records Thursday afternoon. The Nasdaq closed at a new high of 16,091.92, about 35 points above its last closing high of 16,057.44, reached in November 2021, in the post-Covid economic boom before the Federal Reserve began raising rates.
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — San Francisco Giants right-hander Tristan Beck has been diagnosed with an aneurysm in the upper part of his pitching arm and is evaluating his treatment options after the condition was checked after he began experiencing numbness in his hand. The team announced Beck’s situation Thursday after he had left spring training
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By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) —The largest wildfire in Texas history has burned over a million acres and left scores homeless. At least five separate fires are burning across the state and in neighboring Oklahoma. The fire has also killed thousands of cattle – a major source of income in the region. If you’d like
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Search warrant filings for the Pennsylvania home where a pregnant Amish woman was killed this week say she appeared to have suffered cutting wounds to her neck and head. The body of 23-year-old Rebekah Byler was found in the living room of her
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A national LGBTQ+ advocacy group is suing the Texas Attorney General, rather than handing over information about transgender children receiving gender-confirming medical care. PFLAG National says in its lawsuit filed Wednesday that the Republican Ken Paxton’s office is demanding “documents and communications” related to a sworn statement
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ New York Associated Press (AP) — Federal agents have raided a home owned by a top adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The FBI confirmed that a raid was conducted Thursday at a Bronx address. Records show that the home there is owned by Winnie Greco, a longtime fundraiser for
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers and a court employee were shot and wounded while serving an eviction at a home in Independence, Missouri. Independence Police Department spokesperson Officer Jack Taylor says the two officers were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known. Taylor
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the migrants to the starting point of their jungle trek. The stoppage began when
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and likely Republican challenger Donald Trump arrived Thursday in Texas, some 300 miles apart, for dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — E. Jean Carroll said Donald Trump should not be given more time to post the $83.3 million she was awarded in her defamation trial against the former president, telling the judge that Trump is the “least trustworthy of borrowers.” On Friday, Trump asked the judge overseeing the defamation case
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Airlines damaged or lost more than 11,000 passenger wheelchairs last year – and a new federal proposal seeks cut the inconvenience for wheelchair-reliant travelers with six-figure penalties against airlines. The Department of Transportation proposal, unveiled Thursday, would establish new airline passenger rights. Those include the right of immediate notification
Continue ReadingBy KCTV Staff Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — Two Independence police officers were shot Thursday afternoon while responding to a residence in northeast Independence. The police department stated that there may be a person still inside the residence near North Elsea Smith Road and East Bundschu Road. “IPD is
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The killing of more than a hundred Palestinians at a food distribution site in Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire, triggering panic as civilians were gathering around food aid trucks, has added urgency to ceasefire talks – but could also complicate them,
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former career U.S. diplomat said in court Thursday that he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades, bringing a lightning fast resolution to a case prosecutors described as one of the most brazen
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The Senate is expected to vote
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Patricia Lopez, a fifth grade teacher at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, has been honored as the latest One Class at a Time award winner. The award is made possible thanks to KESQ News Channel 3’s partnership with the Walter Clark Legal Group. Lopez explained her students’ love for reading and the importance of
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Paul Pogba fue suspendido del fútbol durante cuatro años, se anunció el jueves, tras dar positivo por una sustancia prohibida en agosto de 2023, según Reuters. La estrella de Juventus fue suspendida provisionalmente por el tribunal nacional antidopaje de Italia (NADO Italia) en septiembre del año pasado. Tras la
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN Español) — El Arzobispado de Toledo informó este miércoles a través de un comunicado su profundo rechazo a las declaraciones de dos sacerdotes de dicho arzobispado, quienes, durante un programa de tertulia entre sacerdotes llamado “La sacristía de La Vendée”, expresaron que se debía “rezar por que el papa se vaya al
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Prosecutors want to ask potential jurors in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against former President Donald Trump whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen – one of several proposed queries for the jury pool that prosecutors and the defendants are at odds over, according to a new
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN (CNN) — The young girl from Colombia hid in a porta potty to shield herself from the biting wind and cold as she and her parents waited at a makeshift camp along the southern border earlier this month. Border Patrol agents had directed them to the temporary camp
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