By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street isn’t moving much Thursday, but a swirl of competing forces are pushing and pulling on financial markets under the seemingly calm surface. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in afternoon trading following a mixed set of profit reports from Tesla and other influential
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program. The Department of Justice said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched by North Korea to work
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines, with the longest strike in their history set to hit 100 days on Saturday after talks broke off with studios. Here’s a look at where things stand, how their stretched-out
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines, with the longest strike in their history set to hit 100 days on Saturday after talks broke off with studios. Here’s a look at where things stand, how their stretched-out
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics say their headquarters have again been visited by French financial prosecutors who are investigating suspicions of favoritism, conflicts of interest and misuse of funds in the awarding of contracts. The Paris organizing committee says the national financial prosecution service visited its north Paris offices on Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent.” Alsu Kurmasheva, who’s an editor for Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, is the second U.S. journalist to be detained in Russia this year. Wall Street Journal reporter
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia’s foreign minister has proposed regular security talks with North Korea and China to deal with what he described as increasing U.S.-led regional military threats. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the comments Thursday during a trip to North Korea, where he met leader Kim Jong Un and his top diplomat.
Continue ReadingLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia says it will introduce border checks with neighboring Hungary and Croatia following Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia because of security concerns due to violence in the Middle East. The government on Thursday said border controls will be introduced on Saturday and last for at least 10 days.
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Once an activist in a left-leaning youth movement, Rubén Dávalos is now among the millions of disaffected voters in Argentina planning to cast their ballots for right-wing populist and self-described anarcho-capitalist, Javier Milei. “In this country, you can’t plan for the future,” said the 30-year-old
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A passenger in a vehicle stopped in a hit-and-run investigation and sheriff’s deputies exchanged gunfire in southern California, wounding a deputy and the passenger, authorities said early Thursday. Both were in stable condition at a hospital. Sheriff’s deputies had responded to a call in Palm Desert shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The decision by US prosecutors to offer Joran van der Sloot a plea agreement on charges of extortion and wire fraud led to his confession in the 2005 killing of Natalee Holloway in Aruba – and although he might not be prosecuted for the Alabama teen’s death, legal experts
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is backing West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in the state’s Republican Senate primary, the latest sign that Trump remains mostly aligned with Senate GOP leaders in regard to candidate selection as the party seeks to avoid the pitfalls of the 2022 midterms. “Big Jim
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Liberal discontent over rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is playing a role in Pennsylvania’s top-of-the-ballot election this fall. Democrat Dan McCaffery portrays his candidacy for an open Pennsylvania Supreme Court seat as a bulwark against a U.S. Supreme Court majority he says is
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he shot three Swedish men this week, killing two of them. The 45-year-old Tunisian arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a smuggler’s boat in 2011. He spent jail time in Sweden and
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in eight months last week as businesses continue to retain workers despite elevated interest rates meant to cool the economy and labor market. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claim applications fell by 13,000 to 198,000 for the
Continue ReadingBy John Miller and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — With a war ongoing between Israel and Hamas, law enforcement agencies across the US remain on high alert, with a joint bulletin Wednesday warning of the threat of “lone offenders” as sources say officials are using an array of sophisticated tools and techniques to monitor for
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua has released 12 Roman Catholic priests jailed on a variety of charges and sent them to Italy following an agreement reached with the Vatican. The Nicaraguan government said in a statement late Wednesday that the priests had been flown to Rome following productive talks with the Vatican. Bishop Rolando Álvarez
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights has found Italy violated the human rights of residents living in and around Naples by failing to manage a 15-year garbage and pollution crisis. The verdict announced Thursday is the second major one in recent years finding that Italy’s failure to collect, treat and dispose of tons
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A passenger in a vehicle stopped in a hit-and-run investigation and sheriff’s deputies exchanged gunfire in southern California, wounding a deputy and the passenger, authorities said early Thursday. Both were in stable condition at a hospital. Sheriff’s deputies had responded to a call in Palm Desert shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union has demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war. The 27-nation bloc’s executive branch on Thursday formally requested that the social media companies provide information on how they’re complying with pioneering new digital rules
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