By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Thursday following mixed data on the economy, including the latest encouraging update on inflation, but hopes for coming cuts to interest rates and Wall Street’s continued frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology are keeping indexes near their records. The S&P 500 was up
Continue ReadingLIMESTONE, Tenn. (AP) — A zoo in Tennessee says an antelope choked on a squeezable food pouch and died over the weekend. Brights Zoo is a family-owned attraction in rural Limestone. It said in a social media post that the 7-year-old male sitatunga they named Lief died on Saturday. It said the cause was choking
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was seen driving at a “high rate of speed” just before he rear-ended another car on Interstate 70 in Maryland. A state police report said Fetterman was at fault in Sunday morning’s crash. Police say both cars were towed and Fetterman, his wife Gisele and
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal and advocacy group, is laying off employees. The union that represents workers there says the organization is laying off more than 60 employees. The Southern Poverty Law Center did not confirm the number but issued a statement saying the organization “is undergoing an organizational
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Phoenix Police Department has for years violated the constitutional rights of residents experiencing homelessness and regularly discriminated against minority communities, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday. Justice Department investigators found that Phoenix police targets “people experiencing homelessness, retaliates against people who criticize the
Continue ReadingBy FREIDA FRISARO, TERRY SPENCER and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A tropical disturbance that brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida delayed flights at two of the state’s largest airports and left vehicles waterlogged and stalled in some of the region’s lowest lying streets. “Looked like
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney asked a federal appellate court to dismiss its lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, a day after his appointees approved a deal with the company on how Walt Disney World will be developed over the next two decades, ending the last piece of
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation of law enforcement in the nation’s fifth-largest city. The U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday says investigators
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years. The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who said he had mistaken it for a coyote. That was shocking.
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission is asking three of the world’s biggest pornography sites to provide details of the measures they have taken to better protect minors from accessing their content and prevent gender-based violence. The EU’s executive branch said Thursday that it took the decision targeting Pornhub, XVideos and Stripchat under its trailblazing
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Authorities are investigating a blast caused by an explosive device that rocked a Bridgeport, Connecticut, apartment building early Thursday morning, damaging the structure and forcing around 150 people in the area to evacuate. “Despite the fact that there are no reported injuries, it’s a very serious incident and the
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999. The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, is the only Native
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — NATO defense ministers are expected to finalize an agreement on Friday that will give the alliance greater control over security assistance and training for Ukraine’s military, an attempt some officials say is meant to give Europe greater responsibility over the aid amid uncertainty over the outcome of the US
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Across the NFL, teams wrapped up their mandatory minicamps this week leading into about a month-long break before the start of a grueling season that could approach seven months for the teams that make the Super Bowl. The timeline of spring practice followed
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British coroner has criticized the U.S. government over a lack of training for diplomatic personnel at the conclusion of an inquest into a road accident in August 2019. A teenage motorcyclist was killed by one of its employees. At the end of a four-day inquiry on Thursday, Northamptonshire coroner Anne Pember
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Mary Ziegler (CNN) — On the surface, the Supreme Court, with its unanimous decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Thursday, seemed to put an end to a long-running fight over the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions. The truth is that this fight is far
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy submarine has arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean. U.S. Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, pulled into the waters near
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means the abortion pill mifepristone remains available in the United States, even through the mail. The court said Thursday that anti-abortion doctors didn’t have the right to sue the Food and Drug Administration over the drug’s safety or the changes that
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press A large number of whales visiting the waters off New England included an uncommon sighting of an orca eating a tuna and an unusually large group of an endangered species of whale, scientists said. A research flight made 161 sightings of seven different species of whale on May 25 south
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Now that Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees to a governing district have reached a deal on how Walt Disney World will be developed over the next two decades, the company plans to ask that its federal lawsuit be dismissed, ending the last piece of
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