By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are sinking Wednesday on worries that what seemed like a blip in the battle to bring down inflation is turning into a trend. The S&P 500 was 1% lower in a wipeout where roughly nine out of 10 stocks in the index fell.
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU) in New Brunswick was vandalized overnight during Eid al-Fitr, the three-day Islamic religious celebration that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, officials said Wednesday. Atiyah Aftab, chairwoman of the university’s Center for Islamic Life, said in a statement the act of vandalism was
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, JACK JEFFERY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Three sons and three grandchildren of Hamas ‘ top political leader were killed Wednesday by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, and the leader accused Israel of acting in “the spirit of revenge and murder.” Ismail Haniyeh’s sons are
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden defended his handling of the economy hours after a key economic report found that progress on slowing inflation has stalled, a continued bane on Biden’s presidency. US consumer prices picked up again last month, marking a 3.5% increase for the 12 months ended in March,
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. That moves the annual ceremony up about a week. This year’s Oscars were held on March 10. The telecast, which culminated in the best picture win for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” was watched
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. That moves the annual ceremony up about a week. This year’s Oscars were held on March 10. The telecast, which culminated in the best picture win for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” was watched
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — There has been some head-scratching about what former President Donald Trump is up to in his defense in the hush money payment trial against him, for which jury selection begins Monday. He keeps filing motions that seem certain to lose, and then when they do he sometimes refiles them again. Some have
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not sign a national abortion ban if elected to the White House again, reversing a promise the former president made as a candidate in 2016 and stood by during his first term in office. Trump’s latest shift on abortion
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has created a commission to investigate soccer match-fixing. The move comes amid allegations from the top shareholder of a team that dominated the national league throughout most of last year but failed to clinch the championship. The panel will probe accusations involving players,
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with Donald Trump for a press conference on election integrity. A Trump campaign official says the meeting is set for Friday at the presumed Republican presidential nominee’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. The joint appearance
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One of two people who filed paperwork to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case has been disqualified but says she’ll appeal that decision. Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a final decision Tuesday saying Tiffani Johnson
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is honoring the friendship between the United States and Japan by transforming the State Floor of the White House into a vibrant spring garden for a glamorous dinner that she and President Joe Biden are hosting for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. And she’s replacing the
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Call it the Caitlin Clark effect. The WNBA will show 36 of the Indiana Fever’s 40 games on its national broadcast and streaming partners, starting with the season opener at Connecticut on May 14. Last season, the Fever had only 22 of their games shown
Continue ReadingBy STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is joining other Republican incumbents scrambling to strike a balance in their abortion rights messaging. He says he opposes his state’s ballot initiative that would protect abortions until viability in the state’s law, but he agrees with former President
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told donors and supporters at an appreciation retreat over the weekend that he would help fundraise for former presidential rival Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the details told CNN. “He’s committed to helping Trump in any and every way,” said Texas businessman Roy Bailey,
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, JACK JEFFERY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military says it struck and killed three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, saying they were operatives for the militant group. The military said the airstrike happened Wednesday. It described the men as a cell commander and two
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will hold a key test vote Wednesday on whether to consider a bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program, but the prospects were uncertain amid intense Republican opposition as well as an edict earlier in the day from former
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship between Iowa and South Carolina drew nearly 19 million average viewers, shattering records to become the most-watched women’s college basketball game ever measured by Nielsen. The game not only eclipsed Monday’s men’s final between Purdue and UConn by more than 4 million viewers, but it
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Seventeen years after she was accused of killing her British roommate, Amanda Knox returned to an Italian court to hear the outcome of a slander charge that has stuck long after she was exonerated of the murder. Knox was reconvicted of slander Wednesday for wrongly accusing
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials call “a path forward” for the installation of murals and other public artwork. But a lawyer for a bakery owner in a First Amendment dispute with the town over a pastry painting
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