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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street dipped Thursday following mixed earnings reports from big companies and more signals the U.S. economy may be slowing. The S&P 500 fell 24.73, or 0.6%, to 4,129.79 after drifting listlessly earlier this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 110.39, or

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight Thursday and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip

By LORNE COOK and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has defiantly declared that Ukraine’s “rightful place” is in the military alliance and pledged more support on his first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion just over a year ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Stoltenberg to push for

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shares fell sharply Thursday as the company felt the sting of numerous price cuts it made across its model lineup this year in hopes of energizing sales. Tesla is shaving thousands of dollars off the price of its cars as American consumers pull back spending

DETROIT (AP) — The number of people killed on U.S. roadways decreased slightly last year, but government officials said the 42,795 people who died is still a national crisis. Estimates by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that the number of fatalities dropped 0.3% from the 42,939 killed in 2021. Traffic deaths declined slightly

INDIANA, Pa. — S&T Bancorp: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

MILWAUKEE — Manpower: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

STAMFORD, Conn. — Webster Financial: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nucor: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

COCONUT GROVE, Fla. — Watsco: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

NEW YORK — Virtu Financial: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

RAMAT GAN, Israel — Magal: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly lower in Europe and Asia on Thursday after they barely budged on Wall Street following a mixed batch of earnings reports from big U.S. companies. U.S. futures and oil prices also declined. Germany’s DAX slipped 0.9% to 15,761.62 and the CAC 40 in Paris gave up

HSINCHU, Taiwan — TSMC: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Alert: US officials say old growth and mature forests on government lands cover an area larger than California, and the Biden administration plans a new rule to protect them. The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) of old growth and

ESPOO, Finland — Nokia: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported lower than expected profits as it warned that the current uncertain economic situation was starting to impact spending by operators and other customers. The Finland-based company on Thursday reported net profit of 342 million euros ($375 million) for the January-March period. That’s down 18%

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai says Washington is not seeking to decouple the American economy from China’s and that U.S. trade sanctions against Beijing are “narrowly targeted.” Tai told reporters in Tokyo that the U.S. government is carrying out regular trade work with China, though she has

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press SLATER, Iowa (AP) — There’s a low-tech remedy for the nitrate pollution affecting waterways in Iowa and elsewhere in the United States. Simple systems called bioreactors and streamside buffers help filter nitrates from rainwater before it can reach streams and rivers. And that’s important because the nitrates

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball. “They said, ‘What do you guys think about a theatrical release?’” Damon says. “It wasn’t what we expected when we first made the