By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to another mixed close as Wall Street continues to recalibrate following its sharp recent swings. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% Wednesday, its third straight day of quiet trading. The Dow slipped 39 points, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.1%. Eli Lilly jumped
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have approved a settlement that includes reforms to the state medical examiner’s process for conducting autopsies on people killed in police custody. The settlement approved by the Board of Public Works on Wednesday ends litigation relating to how the office performed an autopsy for
Continue ReadingMONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A system of nets intended to catch boulders and other debris during rainstorms in a California hillside community devastated by mudslides five years ago has been removed over a funding dispute. The nonprofit Project for Resilient Communities installed the ring nets atop several canyons after flooding in Montecito triggered a debris
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The day that panda lovers have been dreading has finally come. The National Zoo’s three giant pandas, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji. on Wednesday began their long trip to China, leaving behind an empty panda exhibit with no certainty that pandas ever
Continue ReadingLUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — The sheriff’s office in a southeastern North Carolina county where two deputies were seriously wounded while attempting to arrest a wanted man says both are expected to make a full recovery. Robeson County sheriff’s deputies Jonathan Walters and Kaelin Locklear were injured by gunfire and a police vehicle on Tuesday. The
Continue ReadingBy RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis woman accused accused of backing her car into a building she believed held an “Israeli school” was ordered Wednesday by a judge to stay away from synagogues and other Jewish religious and cultural centers. Thirty-four-year-old Ruba Almaghtheh was formally charged Tuesday with intimidation, criminal recklessness
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a suspect is in custody in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue leader. Samantha Woll’s death has raised questions about whether it was motivated by antisemitism. Police have said there’s no evidence of that. The 40-year-old was president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. She was found dead outside
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Yusef Salaam, an exonerated Central Park Five member, will win a New York City Council seat in Harlem, CNN projects. Salaam was unopposed in Tuesday’s election for the seat that became open after incumbent democratic socialist member Kristin Richardson Jordan withdrew from the race. The first-time candidate, who was wrongly accused
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A suspect who was taken into custody in last month’s killing of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll has been released, the suspect’s lawyer said Saturday. Detroit Police Chief James E. White had announced Wednesday a suspect was in custody, but said details of the investigation will
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke announced the investigation Wednesday. She said it will focus on numerous allegations from residents in Lexington, a community
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville district attorney is calling on the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution. The move follows the Tuesday arrest of 29-year-old Shaquille Taylor in the shooting of an 18-year-old Belmont University student. Taylor was previously charged with three
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Federal Police in Brazil say they’ve foiled a terror plot and arrested two people in Sao Paulo state. An official with information about the plot says that the two suspects were recruited and financed by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. The official spoke on condition
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is riding high after his reelection victory in Republican-leaning Kentucky. He says his party can overcome America’s deep divisions by trying “to lead with compassion” and improving the lives of the people who elect them. Beshear won a second term on Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to the front lines in their homeland to fight on Moscow’s side in the war. RIA Novosti reports the POWs swore allegiance to Russia when they joined the battalion, which
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Preston Mattingly was promoted Monday to the Philadelphia Phillies’ assistant general manager for player development. A son of former New York Yankees great and current Toronto Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly, Preston Mattingly was hired by the Phillies in September 2021 to run the club’s player development system. Mattingly spent five
Continue ReadingFRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys signed receiver Martavis Bryant to their practice squad Wednesday, ending a five-year absence from the NFL for a player who has been suspended three times. Bryant last played in 2018 with the Raiders before they moved from Oakland to Las Vegas. He was indefinitely suspended over substance-abuse violations
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic governors across the country are sending a joint letter to leaders in Congress calling for additional funds for security at places of worship. The call comes as concerns rise over potential threats against Jewish and Muslim communities motivated by the Israel-Hamas war. Other national leaders,
Continue Reading