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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks on Wall Street are mixed in light midday trading Friday after U.S. markets reopened following the Thanksgiving holiday. The S&P 500 was up less than 0.1% as of 12:20 p.m. Eastern, after drifting between small gains and losses all morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 87 points
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a 2-year-old girl who was seized from a Ukrainian children’s home and changed her name. Sergey Mironov asserted on social media that the Ukrainian security services and their Western partners
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, JOSEF FEDERMAN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages who had been held captive in Gaza for weeks, including 13 Israelis, 10 people from Thailand and a Filipino citizen, according to Qatar and other officials, in the first stage in a swap for
Continue ReadingUTTARKASHI, India (AP) — Rescue teams trying to reach 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for nearly two weeks have stopped drilling again. Their boring machine hit a new metal obstruction in rock debris, further delaying efforts. A disaster management officer says the rescuers could take several hours to cut
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We’re seeing temperatures in the 60s throughout the morning hours. They peak around 70 degrees through the midday hours then dip back into the 60s by this afternoon. It’s a cool down compared to yesterday’s daily high at 76 degrees. You may just need a cardigan or holiday sweater if you’re headed out for some
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised quick action to fix a budget crisis after a court decision blew a large hole in the almost-finished plan for next year. It also threatens to disrupt spending on efforts to fight climate change and cushion the impact of
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN London (CNN) — The world’s biggest iceberg – more than twice the size of Britain’s capital city – is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor in Antarctica. The huge mass of ice broke away from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in 1986, calved and grounded on the
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, JOSEF FEDERMAN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages who had been held captive in Gaza for weeks, including 13 Israelis, 10 people from Thailand and a Filipino citizen, according to Qatar and other officials, in the first stage in a swap for
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Three West African nations led by military juntas met this week to strengthen a newly formed alliance which some analysts describe as an attempt to legitimize their military governments. The Alliance of Sahel States provides a “path of sovereignty” for the countries and for their citizens,
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This Thanksgiving, six local country clubs partnered with American Friends of Our Armed Forces (AFAF) to transport hundreds of Marines to the Coachella Valley where they were welcomed by host families who served them Thanksgiving dinner. AFAF chartered six Cardiff buses to the Twentynine Palms Marine Base on Thanksgiving Day to pick up 260 marines
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Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. Despite the rise in online shopping, more than 72.9 million consumers shopped in-person last year, up from 66.5 million in 2021 according to a study conducted by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. “It’s just a great opportunity to kind of try
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The two people killed when their car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls have been identified as a western New York couple whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores. The Niagara Falls Police Department on Friday named the victims as Kurt
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has thanked Mexico for arresting a hyper violent, alleged Sinaloa cartel security chief this week. But according to details released Friday, the arrest of Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas may have been personal for the Mexican army. Mexico’s defense department said Pérez Salas had ordered a 2019 attack on
Continue ReadingZURICH (AP) — FIFA has opened disciplinary cases against Argentina and Brazil after fan violence at the Maracana Stadium delayed the start of a World Cup qualifying game. The Argentine soccer federation was charged with crowd disturbances and the late kick off at Tuesday’s game in Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian federation was charged with
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, JOSEF FEDERMAN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday released a group of hostages held captive in Gaza for weeks, including 13 Israelis, according to officials and media reports, the first stage in a swap for Palestinians prisoners in Israel under a four-day cease-fire deal. The
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — In the 10 years that it has been operating in New Jersey, internet casino gambling has generated nearly $7 billion in revenue for casinos and their affiliates, sent over a billion dollars in tax revenue to the state’s coffers, and helped keep Atlantic City’s nine
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. How and when their impacts are felt remains unclear. Existing abortion-related lawsuits are moving again through the courts now that voters have decided
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — “I am on my way to see my home… my family that is under the rubble,” Mahmoud Moharram, a displaced Palestinian, said as he walked with a group of residents hoping to return to northern Gaza while the lull in fighting holds. “We want to get
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s economy shrank in recent months, and business confidence is still in the dumps. The figures released Friday come as the government is struggling to overcome a budget crisis that threatens to exacerbate problems in what was already the world’s worst-performing major developed economy. Europe’s
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas released the first batch of hostages under a cease-fire deal that began Friday, including 13 Israelis who have been held in the Gaza Strip since the militant group staged a raid on Israel nearly seven weeks ago, according
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