The Associated Press Major U.S. stock indexes shook off a weak start and ended higher Thursday, notching another round of record highs for the S&P 500 and, just barely, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The tech-heavy Nasdaq also rose. Gains for several big technology companies including Apple countered weakness in other sectors including industrial companies.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Utz Brands, Carnival fall; Sonos, Lordstown Motors rise.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The first Black person to have been elected to Oktibbeha County’s governing board has died. George Curry Jr. was 90. Curry served on the county Board of Supervisors in east-central Mississippi for 28 years, starting in the late 1970s. The Commercial Dispatch reports throughout his seven terms, Curry focused on ensure
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City area and Missouri suburbs saw the most population growth in the state over the past decade, U.S. Census data released Thursday show. Platte County saw the biggest influx of people at close to 20% growth from 2010 to 2020, U.S. Census Bureau data
Continue Reading By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian justice department lawyer told an extradition hearing the dishonesty of a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies put a bank at risk of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and the company’s chief
Continue Reading LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — Crews have recovered the body of a man who jumped into a Kansas City-area lake to help his children. The Kansas City Star reports that firefighters were called to Longview Lake just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday and were told that two adults had jumped into the water to help the
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Missouri police officer has been indicted by a grand jury on a misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly injuring a 17-year-old by pulling him from his car by his arm and clothing during a traffic stop. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 40-year-old Charles Thomas Lancey was charged Wednesday with fourth-degree
Continue Reading By DAVID PITT Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s population grew in pockets around the state’s largest cities over the past decade while 68 counties in rural areas lost population, according to U.S. Census data released Thursday. The biggest population gainers were the counties around Des Moines in central Iowa, Cedar Rapids
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as President Joe Biden becomes more aggressive in pressuring Americans to get vaccinated, he has refrained from using all his powers. He’s held off, for instance, on proposals to require vaccinations for all air travelers or, for that matter, the federal workforce. The result is a
Continue Reading By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The conservative activist lawyer that sued China for $20 trillion over the coronavirus pandemic has now filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump ally Roger Stone. The lawsuit Larry Klayman filed in Palm Beach County, Florida, is over comments Stone posted on Gab, a social media
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Most Kansas counties lost residents over the past 10 years as the state’s population concentrated in more populous places, including the Kansas City area, new census figures released Thursday showed. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s once-a-decade count of the nation’s population
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By Samantha Tapfumaneyi, Lauren Kent and Tim Lister, CNN Social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter, appeared to be shutdown in Zambia on Thursday as the country voted in presidential and parliamentary elections, according to a Facebook spokesperson. “We’ve looked into this and can confirm that there seems to be a
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Oakland filmmaker Peter Nicks had already made two well-regarded documentaries capturing the institutions of his city and how they shape local lives in 2012’s “The Waiting Room,” about a public hospital, and 2017’s “The Force,” about the Oakland Police Department. Nicks turned to Oakland
Continue Reading MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Another Kansas school district is reinstating masking requirements to combat COVID-19 outbreaks and vaccination efforts are increasing as younger patients and staffing shortages increasingly strain Kansas hospitals. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Kansas has risen over the past two weeks from 667.57 new cases per day on
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Virginia school board whose heated meeting in June gained national attention has voted to expand the rights of its transgender and gender-expansive students. The Loudoun County School Board voted Wednesday on a policy that allows transgender student athletes to play on teams based on their gender identity; allows transgender students
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has once again rejected one of 11 sexual assault counts in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein. Judge Lisa Lench first dismissed the count of sexual battery by restraint two weeks ago, saying it was too old and outside the statute of
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By Meg Dunn, CNN In 2005, Michele Neff Hernandez and her husband, Phillip, were enjoying the active life they built as a couple. “We hiked. We biked. We ran. We just had such a good time together,” Neff Hernandez said. But everything changed on a late August evening when Phillip went for a bike ride
Continue Reading By Meg Dunn, CNN In 2005, Michele Neff Hernandez and her husband, Phillip, were enjoying the active life they built as a couple. “We hiked. We biked. We ran. We just had such a good time together,” Neff Hernandez said. But everything changed on a late August evening when Phillip went for a bike ride
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Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties made an unusual show of solidarity with their main challengers Thursday by denouncing an advertising campaign targeting the environmentalist Greens. The ads that appeared in dozens of cities less than two months before the country’s national election feature a wilted version of the Green party’s sunflower symbol, phrases such
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