By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks barely moved in morning trading on Wall Street Friday as investors close out a quiet week of mostly mixed corporate earnings reports. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index has been wavering over the last several days and is on
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will join business, political and philanthropic leaders, as well as celebrities, including Hugh Jackman and John Legend, for this year’s edition of the Global Citizen NOW conference in
Continue Reading BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus. Fifty-six year-old Billie R. Davis of Bloomington was indicted Thursday on a charge of willfully causing injuries to the victim due to her race and national origin.
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Prosecutors have requested a 10-year prison sentence for a dissident Belarusian journalist who was arrested after a warplane forced down a commercial airliner he was taking to Lithuania. Raman Pratasevich is on trial in Belarus on charges of organizing unrest and plotting to seize power. He
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German police have released pictures of a man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack at a gym in which four people were seriously wounded. One of them remains in a life-threatening condition. Police in the western city of Duisburg said they were able to obtain footage from a surveillance camera near
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A judge denied bond Friday to a man accused in the 2017 White supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing allegations the man continued to participate in antisemitic incidents after the infamous event at the University of Virginia. Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Claude Worrell said he “can’t believe” the defendant, Tyler
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday, is Drug Enforcement Administration’s 24th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. This allows the agency, along with its partners to collect tablets, capsules, patches and other forms of prescription drug medications from people who have expired, unwanted or unused medications in their homes. Since its launch over a decade ago, the
Continue Reading By Kristina Sgueglia and Omar Jimenez, CNN A candidate for superintendent of a Massachusetts school district says he had his contract rescinded after he used the word “ladies” in an email — and another candidate pulled out of consideration after controversial Facebook posts about women’s sports surfaced. Vito Perrone tells CNN that he sent an
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rail unions want railroads to take some of the billions they’re using every year to buy back their stock and use it to improve safety in the wake of several high-profile derailments and hire more workers. The 12 unions said Friday that collectively the six
Continue Reading By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Spoiler alert! Season 2 of “Welcome to Wrexham” is set to get the Hollywood ending the first one failed to deliver. This being Wrexham, however, a last-minute plot twist isn’t out of the question. It’s hard to imagine that even the Welsh soccer team’s A-list
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story. And the story he wants told with the meal he’s whipping up for next week’s White House state dinner is of the deep connection between the United States and its ally South Korea. President Joe Biden
Continue Reading By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A historic amount of money is being spent on urban tree planting and maintenance in underserved, often concrete-covered neighborhoods across the country. Urban forestry advocates, who’ve argued for years about the benefits of more trees in cities, see this moment as a huge opportunity to permanently
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, is in a Sydney hospital with complications following hip surgery. St. Vincent’s Hospital described the 89-year-old’s condition
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A former head of the Catholic German Bishops’ Conference is giving up the country’s highest honor following scathing criticism this week of his handling of clergy abuse cases during his tenure as archbishop of Freiburg and as a personnel officer in the diocese. A spokesperson for Robert Zollitsch said Friday that the
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO and LARRY FENN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year. The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings over 111 days. Each time, the killers
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics, the local organizing committee said Friday. They hope to sell 1.3 million tickets for the 2024 Games as a result of the latest draw. Applications ended
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim has been made a citizen of honor of Berlin, months after he ended his three-decade tenure as the general musical director of the Berlin State Opera for health reasons. The German capital’s mayor paid tribute to Barenboim’s musical talent and his commitment to communication between Israelis and Palestinians in a
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. Among those no longer labeled was National Public Radio in the U.S., which announced last
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN, WANJOHI KABUKURU, FABIANO MAISONNAVE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press They fight for Earth. Young and old, famous and not so well known, there are many people from around the globe who make it their mission to try to save the planet, especially from the ravages of climate change. They find themselves often
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Michelle Watson and Joe Sutton, CNN An American Airlines employee died Thursday at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, was operating a ground service vehicle that struck a jet bridge, authorities said. Police and Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services called to the airport found the employee with “obvious signs of trauma” to
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