By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — US. stocks are ticking higher as they get pulled in opposite directions by competing waves of optimism and fear Friday. Several of the biggest U.S. banks said their profits during the summer were better than feared, which offered hope for an earning reporting season that
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — In recent closed-door testimony to Congress, the top-ranking Justice Department prosecutor in Washington, DC, refuted claims from two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers that he blocked federal investigators from charging Hunter Biden with tax crimes in DC, according to a transcript of his testimony obtained by
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — There’s an election for governor next month in Kentucky, and voters are trying to decide between Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Daniel Cameron, the state attorney general. The college town of Bowling Green in Warren County is a crucial swing area. Concerns about abortion,
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DeBRE, EDITH M. LEDERER and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians fled in a mass exodus Friday from northern Gaza after Israel’s military told some 1 million people to evacuate to the southern part of the besieged territory ahead of an expected ground invasion in retaliation for the surprise attack by
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday. The deal includes setting minimum hourly wages at $25 in California, where most of Kaiser’s facilities are located, and $23 in other states.
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Friday, Migos rapper Offset released his ambitious second solo album, “Set It Off.” In doing so, he’s also announced a new era. It’s been four years since Offset released his debut solo album, “Father of 4.” “My goal changed,” Offset told The Associated Press.
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the movie industry, it isn’t just actors and writers who have been battling management. Movie theater workers also have been taking action. Over the past two years, employees have formed or attempted to form unions at the Film Forum and Anthology Film Archives in
Continue ReadingISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Refrigerants are chemical fluids that have made air conditioning and refrigeration possible, but they are hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, the most notorious greenhouse gas. Although it’s not meant to happen, they leak and get into the air.
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer has been shot and killed and a second officer has been wounded after they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport. Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford says officers Richard Mendez and Raul Ortiz had just arrived at
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday. The deal includes setting minimum hourly wages at $25 in California, where most of Kaiser’s facilities are located, and $23 in other states.
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kaiser Permanente has reached a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent 3-day strike.
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has lost the first of several attempts to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in Colorado, based on the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against insurrectionists holding public office. Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace this week rejected Trump’s bid to
Continue ReadingBy LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Emailed bomb threats sent to schools and kindergartens across the three Baltic nations this week led to the cancellation of classes across the region. Lithuania’s police chief said “a coordinated mass attack” began late Thursday involved hundreds of emails that were sent from a server within
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says subsidies will be progressively cut and new taxes launched next year as part of the 2024 federal budget. Anwar says the measures are intended to accelerate economic reforms and fix economic imbalances at a time when the cost of living is rising. The 2024
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Microsoft completed its purchase of video game-maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion on Friday, closing one of the most expensive tech acquisitions in history that could have repercussions across the video game industry. The notice that the deal has gone through came seven hours after Microsoft
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A decision on whether to authorize the use of the controversial chemical herbicide glyphosate in the European Union for at least 10 more years has been delayed after member countries failed to agree. The chemical, which is widely used in the 27-nation bloc, is approved on the
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By Chris Isidore and Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative deal with the unions representing 75,000 employees, following the largest-ever health care strike in US history. “The frontline healthcare workers of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are excited to have reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente,” the union coalition
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include Offset’s sophomore solo album, the return of “Frasier” starring Kelsey Grammer, and Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones leading the crowd-pleasing courtroom drama “The Burial.” Over on Prime Video, audiences can check out the Nicolas Cage Dracula movie “Renfield” and Frontline takes a deep dive
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A man armed with a knife killed a teacher at the high school in northern France he once attended and critically wounded another teacher and a security guard Friday, authorities said, an attack being investigated as potential terrorism amid soaring global tensions over the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m. ET
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