By ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Markets on Wall Street were mixed early Wednesday but remain at or above record levels as more results from retailers take center stage amid a dearth of economic news. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average just barely edged into positive territory, rising less than 0.1% before
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump are due in court Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. The case, among four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Andre Agassi will take over from John McEnroe as the captain for Team World at the Laver Cup next year, when the event will be held in San Francisco. Laver Cup organizers announced Agassi’s selection on Wednesday and said Bjorn Borg’s successor as captain of Team Europe will be named “in
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Leaders around the Baltic Sea are reacting warily to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region. Lithuania’s foreign minister calls it an “obvious escalation” that must be met with an “appropriately firm response.” It isn’t immediately clear from
Continue ReadingBy Avery Lotz, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the cancellation of an additional $7.7 billion in student loans for 160,000 Americans in its ongoing efforts to relieve soaring college debt. As the November election looms, the administration has been eager to highlight progress in its debt cancellation programs, making announcements such
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON, MELANIE LIDMAN and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel denounced the decisions and
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s fractious politicians shared a rare moment of unity Wednesday, when a Conservative lawmaker returned to work six months after sepsis put him in a coma and forced the amputation of his hands and feet. As Conservative legislator Craig Mackinlay walked unaided into the House of Commons
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Discussions on how to scale up resources to deliver efficient and affordable clean cooking to all are on the table at the 9th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency by the International Energy Agency. The forum brings together ministers, CEOs and thought leaders from around the world to
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — British lawmaker Craig Mackinlay has received a standing ovation in Parliament as he returned to the House of Commons after undergoing a quadruple amputation following a sepsis infection. Mackinlay, who is a member of parliament for the governing Conservative party, representing South Thanet in southeast England, fell ill
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford, Joe Sutton and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — The destructive tornado that ravaged the town of Greenfield, Iowa, on Tuesday has left four dead and at least 35 injured, the Iowa State Patrol said in a Wednesday evening news release. Two residents, Dean Wiggins, 78, and Pamela Wiggins, 77, were killed when their home
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader prayed Wednesday over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials who were killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Later, hundreds of thousands of people followed a procession honoring the dead down Tehran’s main boulevard.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s fractious politicians shared a rare moment of unity on Wednesday, when a Conservative lawmaker returned to work six months after sepsis put him in a coma and forced the amputation of his hands and feet. As Conservative legislator Craig Mackinlay walked unaided into the House of
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was publicly displayed along with those of his father and grandfather for the first time, sparking speculation about the message it sends. Portraits of leaders are at the core of North Korea’s state-sponsored cult of personality
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO and BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Cars, trucks and SUVs in the U.S. keep getting older, hitting a record average age of 12.6 years in 2024 as people hang on to their vehicles largely because new ones cost so much. S&P Global Mobility, which tracks state vehicle registration data nationwide, said Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — When House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries negotiated a pair of major government funding bills with Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this year, he also quietly secured a significant victory for his own party: a considerable bump in money for transportation, housing and urban development projects back in
Continue ReadingBy NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Aviation investigators have arrived in Bangkok to learn how and why severe turbulence sent a Singapore Airlines plane into a sudden dive that tossed passengers and crew around the cabin, leaving a British man dead and dozens others injured. Twenty people remained in intensive care in hospital
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker is returning to work six months after sepsis forced the amputation of his hands and feet. Conservative legislator Craig Mackinlay is due in the House of Commons for the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session. Mackinlay recounted in a series of interviews how he was taken to hospital on Sept.
Continue ReadingBy NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds Memorial Day weekend is often considered to be the kick-start to summer and, for car shoppers looking for the best finance and lease deals, a great opportunity to take advantage of a marketplace finally returning to normalcy. Edmunds’ experts have noted a gradual return to a pre-pandemic business-as-usual marketplace, and this
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hunter Biden’s lawyers will press a judge on Wednesday to delay his trial that’s set to begin next month in Los Angeles on charges that he schemed to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes. President Joe Biden’s son is seeking to push
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