By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are drifting around their records Wednesday, continuing a dayslong run of quiet trading. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower a day after setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 41 points, or 0.1%, as of 9:35 a.m.
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after a suspicious package was discovered. A police source told CNN that the package contained two vials of blood, a Korean Bible and two ice packs. A motive was not immediately
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT STUMM Associated Press A typical spread at a Memorial Day barbecue might not scream “healthy,” but nutritionists see an opportunity in those gloppy, heavy side dishes. In short, it pays to be sneaky. Take classic potato salad, which often comes so sodden with mayonnaise you can barely taste the potato. Registered dietitian Patricia
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press At 16, Katya Kondragunta has already lived through two disasters amped by climate change. First came wildfires in California in 2020. Ash and smoke forced her family to stay inside their home in the Bay Area city of Fremont, for weeks. Then they moved to Prosper, Texas, where she
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press At 16, Katya Kondragunta has already lived through two disasters amped by climate change. First came wildfires in California in 2020. Ash and smoke forced her family to stay inside their home in the Bay Area city of Fremont, for weeks. Then they moved to Prosper, Texas, where she
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer This French Open is expected to be the last one for Rafael Nadal. He has won the clay-court Grand Slam tournament a record 14 times but he is nearly 38 and hip and abdominal injuries have limited him to 20 matches over the past 20 months. He has indicated
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader and representatives of militia groups he backs in the Middle East prayed Wednesday over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Hundreds of thousands of people later followed
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — In her videos, Ms Rachel’s whimsical voice is like a balm for many unyielding toddlers. “Hiiii, heeeello,” she chirps while waving cheerfully in social media clips that feature upbeat nursery rhymes, dances and language lessons for preschool children. But last week, her message to her more than 6.5 million combined followers
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is on a flight to New Caledonia to seek a political solution to the deadly violence that has rocked the French archipelago in the Pacific where Indigenous Kanaks have long sought independence. The rioting has raised new questions about Macron’s handling of France’s
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has hailed progress in a U.K.-Albania joint effort to cut illegal migration, saying small boat arrivals from Albania to the U.K. fell by over 90% in 2023, as the two countries fought people smuggling gangs. During his visit to Albania’s capital,
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting in Texas have scheduled a news conference ahead of the upcoming second anniversary of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The news conference is planned for Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana just about every day has surpassed the number who drink that often, a shift some 40 years in the making as recreational pot use became more mainstream and legal in nearly half of U.S. states. In 2022,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Talbot and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s communications director, Raj Shah, is expected to leave his role before the end of the summer, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. This was Shah’s first role on Capitol Hill. He has emerged as a top GOP official in the
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press On a Friday morning in April, Dan Stein, the founder of Giving Green, a climate philanthropy organization, found some big news in a surprising email. An anonymous donor had given his fund $10 million. “I didn’t quite process the number of zeroes,” Stein said, adding he was “tickled, awestruck, surprised”
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press On a Friday morning in April, Dan Stein, the founder of Giving Green, a climate philanthropy organization, found some big news in a surprising email. An anonymous donor had given his fund $10 million. “I didn’t quite process the number of zeroes,” Stein said, adding he was “tickled, awestruck, surprised”
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mastercard says it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal. In its latest software update rolling out this week, Mastercard is integrating artificial intelligence into
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Spain, Ireland and Norway are moving to formally recognize a Palestinian state on Tuesday. It’s a step toward a long-held Palestinian aspiration that was fueled by international outrage over the civilian deaths and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip following Israel’s offensive. The joint decision by the two European Union countries,
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The former head of Britain’s Post Office Paula Vennells has broken down in tears on several occasions while giving evidence to an inquiry into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of a
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Former Republican presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has purchased a minority stake in BuzzFeed, the digital publishing company that shut down its media outlet last year. Shares of the company skyrocketed higher Wednesday. Ramaswamy acquired a 7.7% stake in BuzzFeed, according to a filing with the Securities
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Let the debate begin. Who has the best music albums ever? Apple Music certainly has an idea. The music streaming giant announced on Wednesday their 10 greatest albums of all time with Lauryn Hill’s 1998 iconic “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” claiming the top
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