Month: November 2023

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ticked higher Tuesday as Wall Street continues to absorb the big swings that have shaken financial markets recently. The S&P 500 rose 12.40 points, or 0.3%, to 4,378.38, as gains for some Big Tech stocks helped offset losses for the majority of stocks

BEIJING (AP) — The latest trade data from China show its imports rose in October while exports fell for a sixth straight month compared with a year earlier. Customs data released Tuesday showed imports climbed 3% from a year earlier in a bigger than expected improvement, while exports fell 6.4%, faster than the 6.2% year-on-year

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Efforts to rebuild a California town nearly wiped out by wildfire five years ago are being stymied by high home insurance costs. Residents of Paradise are experiencing sticker shock on renewal policies that near or surpass $10,000. The Nov. 8, 2018, fire that ripped through Paradise

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Dan McCaffery has won an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, preserving its 5-2 Democratic majority. McCaffery, a judge on a statewide appellate court, beat Republican Carolyn Carluccio in Tuesday’s general election. He had positioned himself as a defender of abortion rights and other rights

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America Pennsylvania voters have elected women for the first time to lead Philadelphia and the state’s second-largest county, which includes Pittsburgh. Cherelle Parker will become the 100th mayor of the state’s largest city, and Sara Innamorato will be executive of Allegheny County. The races will set the electoral stage

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge set a June 3 date for the murder trial of a former Southern California street gang leader who has become the only person ever charged in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Duane “Keffe D” Davis made

By ADAM BEAM and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — On the day Paradise burned, Gwen Nordgren stopped her car just long enough to rescue a young woman escaping by foot. By that time on Nov. 8, 2018, the sky was black even though the sun had been up for hours. Both

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Two Democrats with decadeslong political careers are heading to a runoff election to be Houston’s next mayor. No one in the crowded field of 17 candidates and one write-in candidate vying to lead Texas’ biggest city won a majority of the vote Tuesday night. The two

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to preserve a federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. In their first guns case since last year’s expansion of gun rights, the justices suggested that they will reverse a ruling from an appeals court

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — What was once Gaza’s busiest thoroughfare has become a terrifying escape route for Palestinian civilians fleeing combat on foot or on donkey carts. On their way south, those running for their lives said they raised their hands and

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press A mother in Uvalde, Texas, whose 10-year-old daughter was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting has lost her run for mayor. Kimberly Mata-Rubio has pushed for stricter gun laws and police accountability since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in the 2022 attack. Uvalde voters instead elected

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters have approved a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana. Republican legislative leaders are expected to weigh revisiting aspects of the proposal that passed Tuesday. Ohio becomes the 24th state to allow adult cannabis use for non-medical purposes. Under the new law, adults 21 and over

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democrats have kept control of their legislative majorities, holding the line against Republican challenges as well as flipping seats in pivotal Senate races and Assembly contests. The results on Tuesday buoyed the party’s prospects after a bleak showing in the last election. Democrat John

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The developers of a proposed resort casino in Virginia’s capital city have conceded a loss in their second shot at winning voters’ approval for the project. A referendum on whether to allow the gambling and entertainment complex came before Richmond voters for a second time in

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam won a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, completing a stunning reversal of fortune decades after he was wrongly imprisoned in an infamous rape case. Salaam, a Democrat, will represent a central Harlem district on the City Council, having run unopposed

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican David Owen held a narrow lead over Democrat Susanna Gibson in a Virginia House of Delegates race that drew attention after revelations that Gibson engaged in sex acts with her husband on a pornographic website, but the margin left the race too early to call. Gibson ran against Owen in