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Associated Press Nvidia’s stock price has more than doubled this year after more than tripling in 2023 and it’s now the third most valuable company in the S&P 500. Nvidia’s stock rose again Wednesday to touch $3 trillion in market value. The company is also about to undergo a stock split that will give each
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game on Dec. 20 and conclude with the title game one month later in Atlanta. The CFP announced its entire schedule on Wednesday. The four first-round games will be on Dec. 20 and 21.
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico voters have ousted several incumbents from the Democratic-led Legislature in the state’s primary election amid tensions over paid family leave initiatives and a reckoning with accusations of sexual harassment. Ballots were being tallied Wednesday after voters picked their partisan favorites to reshape a
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government has lost a no-confidence vote. The result is non-binding and Vaughan Gething says he won’t resign, but will continue “to serve and lead my country.” It comes less than three months after Gething made history as the first Black leader of
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is barreling toward records Wednesday as technology stocks keep rushing higher. The rally sent the total market value of Nvidia, the stock that’s become the poster child of the artificial-intelligence boom, above $3 trillion for the first time. The S&P 500 was 1.1%
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER, RANDALL CHASE, COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia as prosecutors sought to show he still had a substance abuse problem when he filled out a
Continue ReadingBy JAMES JORDAN and HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets elsewhere in the world in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued criminal referrals Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s son and brother, accusing them of making false statements to Congress as part of the GOP’s yearlong impeachment inquiry. The Republican leaders of the House Oversight and Accountability, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees sent a letter
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Thousands of people including police officers from throughout the Northeast have gathered for the funeral of a Connecticut state trooper killed by a hit-and-run driver last week. Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier was remembered Wednesday in Hartford as a dedicated public servant and loving husband and
Continue ReadingBy KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Traitors,” a reality/competition show hybrid, has announced a lineup of reality television all-stars, actors and even a British aristocrat for the cast of its upcoming season. A slew of stars from the “Real Housewives,” “Survivor,” the “Bachelor” franchises and more popular television shows will join
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul halted a plan to charge most motorists $15 to enter the core of Manhattan, upending the nation’s first “congestion pricing” system on Wednesday just weeks before it was set to launch. The announcement dealt a stunning blow to
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security Wisconsin prison and eight members of his staff have been charged following investigations into the deaths of four inmates at the troubled facility over the past year. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt, who led the investigations, said at
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Shortly after D-Day in 1944, the American soldiers heading out to more fighting against Adolf Hitler’s forces couldn’t help but notice the hungry French boy by the side of the road, hoping for handouts. One by one, the men fished fragrant, brightly-colored spheres from their pockets
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press VER-SUR MER, France (AP) — Along with the generals and the paratroopers, the pilots and the infantrymen, spare a thought for the young Irish woman who may have played the most important role of all in making the D-Day landings a success. Maureen Sweeney was a postal clerk at Blacksod
Continue ReadingBy JAMES JORDAN and HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Germany on Wednesday that the use of its weapons by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia would mark a “dangerous step” and ruin relations between Berlin and Moscow. Germany joined the United States recently in authorizing Ukraine
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — Joe Biden’s campaign is signaling new plans to incorporate Donald Trump’s recent felony conviction as a core element of the Democratic president’s reelection message. Five months before Election Day, there are key voices — some within Biden’s campaign headquarters — who believe that Trump’s
Continue ReadingBy TERRY CHEA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested 13 people at Stanford University after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the school president and provost’s offices early Wednesday, causing what officials described as “extensive” vandalism inside and outside the building. The takeover began around dawn on the last day of spring
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing has finally launched NASA astronauts to the International Space Station after years of stumbles and delays. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board. A pair of veteran NASA pilots will check out the spacecraft during the test
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice has made an initial court appearance in New Hampshire, where he is charged with voter suppression and impersonating a candidate ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Steven Kramer, who also faces a
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine has used U.S weapons to attack inside Russia in recent days. That’s according to a U.S. senator and a Western official familiar with the matter. The weapons were used under recently approved guidance from President Joe Biden allowing American arms to be used to strike inside
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