By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Chevron is buying Hess Corp. for $53 billion and it’s not even the biggest acquisition in the energy sector this month as major producers seize the initiative while oil prices surge. Crude prices rose sharply in early 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and are hovering around $90 per
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is swinging in mixed trading Monday, continuing a monthslong run where it’s slavishly followed the cue of the bond market. The S&P 500 was up 0.4% in late trading, coming off its worst week in a month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
Continue ReadingLISBON, Portugal (AP) — A 31-year-old dog in Portugal that had been ranked as the world’s oldest dog ever, has died. The guard dog, called Bobi, passed away over the weekend in a veterinary hospital, his owner Leonel Costa told The Associated Press on Monday. Bobi lived on a farm in Portugal with Costa and
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years after the bombing that killed 241 U.S. troops in Beirut, the United States is again sending troops to the eastern Mediterranean as tension between Israel and Iran increases over the Israel-Hamas war. Bases housing U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq are coming under attack with
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Chevron is buying Hess Corp. for $53 billion and it’s not even the biggest acquisition in the energy sector this month as major producers seize the initiative while oil prices surge. Crude prices rose sharply in early 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and are hovering around $90 per
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Police Chief John Drake has spent much of his career trying to steer young people away from crime. Inspired by mentors who helped him as a young man, Drake has tried to pay it forward. But sadly, he was unable to keep
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yousra Abu Sharekh’s days begin in the southern Gaza Strip often after sleepless nights amid blaring ambulance sirens and the clamor of neighbors in the brief pause between relentless Israeli airstrikes. By daybreak, the 33-year-old mother is on the hunt for
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who was living in a tent in the woods has been convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a retired New Hampshire couple who were out for a walk. After deliberating for a day and a half, the jury on Monday found 27-year-old
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel ramped up its airstrikes Monday in Gaza, where the death toll was rising rapidly, and the United States advised Israel to delay an expected ground invasion to allow more time to negotiate the release of hostages taken by Hamas
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Allies of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he has refused to leave his cell and skipped a court hearing in protest after his writing supplies were taken away. Navalny is serving a 19-year prison term and was due to join the court hearing by video Monday in one of many
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans found themselves starting over on Monday — bumbling ahead with few ideas about who will lead, what they are fighting over and when they will get Congress working again. Nine lower-level Republican lawmakers are now running to be
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots. Authorities in Oregon identified the man as Joseph David Emerson,
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man living in a tent in the woods has been convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a New Hampshire couple who were out for a walk. A jury on Monday found 27-year-old Logan Clegg guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of Stephen
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and CLAIR RUSH Associated Press A pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots. Authorities in Portland identified the man as Joseph David Emerson, 44. He was being
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and CLAIR RUSH Associated Press A pilot riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots. Authorities in Portland identified the man as Joseph David Emerson, 44. He was being
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — It” Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans are starting over. They’re convening again Monday evening without any idea who will lead and when they will be able to get Congress back to work. Nine lower-level Republican lawmakers are now running to be the House
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of women across Iceland – including the prime minister – went on strike Tuesday as part of a campaign pushing for greater gender equality in the country. It marked the seventh time that women in Iceland have gone on strike in the name of gender equality, campaign organizers
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Horizon Air flight en route to San Francisco on Sunday diverted after 3rd person in cockpit tries to turn off engines.
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Indian Canyon Drive and Gene Autry Trail were reopened to traffic in and out of Palm Springs through the Whitewater wash Monday morning, Gene Autry Trail at 7:30 a.m. and Indian Canyon Drive at 8:55 a.m., according to the Palm Springs Police Department. Both major traffic arteries were closed Sunday through the Whitewater wash due
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Last week’s news of the release of two hostages is offering some hope to the families of the more than 200 people the Israeli military says were taken hostage by Hamas militants. But more than two weeks after their loved ones were abducted during the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel,
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