Month: October 2024

AP Business Wire NEW YORK (AP) — Much like annoying political TV ads, warnings that the U.S. presidential election could have big consequences for your 401(k) come back every four years. It raises anxiety, but remember: If your 401(k) is like many retirement savers’, with most invested in funds that track the S&P 500 other

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch airline KLM has announced a “painful” round of cost-cutting and other measures. They aim to boost the carrier’s finances as it continues to recover from the COVID pandemic that grounded planes worldwide. CEO Marjan Rintel said Thursday that KLM, along with many other airlines, “is suffering from high costs

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a U.N.-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the Hezbollah militant group. Meanwhile, Israeli forces said they had struck around 200 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon,

Associated Press RIPON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris rallied with Republican Liz Cheney in the birthplace of the modern Republican Party on Thursday as the pair delivered a double-barreled denunciation of GOP nominee Donald Trump as a dire threat to democracy. With some people hoisting signs “Country over Party,” Harris told the crowd

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — New NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Ukraine on Thursday in his first official trip since taking office and pledging the alliance’s continued support for Kyiv in its war with Russia. Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv as air raid sirens twice went off in the Ukrainian

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media says at least 26 people have died after drinking alcoholic beverages that contained toxic methanol. The official IRNA news agency said late Wednesday that toxic methanol had killed men and women in two northern provinces and a western province. Alcohol poisoning also led to hundreds of hospitalizations. The

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The speaker of the Georgian parliament has signed into a law a bill that severely curtails LGBTQ+ rights in the country and mirrors legislation adopted in neighboring Russia. Shalva Papuashvili, the parliament speaker, wrote on social media that the legislation does “not reflect current, temporary, changing ideas and ideologies, but is

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award has been given to activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique as well as to a U.K. research agency for making “a profound impact on their communities.” The foundation behind the award credited the recipients’ commitment to speaking against oppression and exploitation while strictly adhering to

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On a weekend morning in the fall of 2004, 13 runners lined up in a London park for an informal race — unaware they were taking the first steps in what would become a global movement. Paul Sinton-Hewitt had simple ambitions: to provide a free, weekly 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) run