Month: July 2023

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out another winning week with a quiet Friday, as stocks found some stability after sliding the day before. The S&P 500 edged up by 1.47, or less than 0.1%, to 4,536.34 to cap its eighth winning week in the last 10. The

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Friday’s demonstrations came a day after protesters stormed the country’s embassy in Iraq. The protests in Iraq, Lebanon and

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California outdoor enthusiast has died after collapsing in Death Valley following a hike amid blistering heat. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that 71-year-old Steve Curry of Sunland, California, collapsed Tuesday after hiking from Golden Canyon to Zabriskie Point. He died of what officials believe were heat-related causes.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors want the rapper Quando Rondo sent back to jail after he crashed a car while free on bond pending trial on gang and drug charges. The 24-year-old rapper, whose given name Tyquian Terrel Bowman, was indicted last month in his hometown of Savannah. He was released from jail June 26

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly released court opinion says FBI employees wrongly searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a U.S. senator and a state senator. It’s the latest revelation of the FBI violating regulations on the usage of foreign data. The primary surveillance court said in an

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness against him at his upcoming trial by publicly disclosing personal things she wrote while she was the chief executive at his cryptocurrency hedge fund trading firm. Prosecutors late Thursday asked a judge to order trial

CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil, in a move aimed at reversing the pro-firearms policies of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. The decree signed Friday reduces the number of guns civilians can possess

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are proposing new congressional lines that maintain one majority-Black district in the state. The plan could defy a Supreme Court order to draw a second congressional district giving minority voters a greater voice in elections. But lawmakers have showed little willingness

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Dan Trebowski was angry when he saw people in front of his Wilton Manors home trying to capture the lionhead rabbits that have populated his neighborhood. He feared the domesticated bunnies, who are not meant to live outdoors, were being taken away to be killed.

MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent hard-line nationalist who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of weakness and indecision in Ukraine was arrested Friday on charges of extremism, a signal the Kremlin has toughened its approach with hawkish critics after last month’s abortive rebellion by the Wagner mercenary company. Igor Strelkov, a retired security officer who led

AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A humanitarian worker for the World Food Program has been shot in an attack in Yemen. In a statement, the program said that the employee, a Jordanian, was shot Friday by gunmen not long after he arrived in the country to assume the role as head of its office