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US indexes inch higher as energy stocks claw from the hole
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes inched higher Friday as energy companies clawed back some of their sharp losses from earlier in the week. The Standard & Poor's 500 index flipped between modest gains and losses and is on track to end the week roughly where it started.KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 added nearly 4 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,438, as of 10:35 a.m. Eastern time.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 7 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 21,403, and the Nasdaq composite rose 10, or 0.2 percent, to 6,246. The Russell 2000 of small-company stocks rose 6... Read More
Officials: 35 killed in 3 bomb attacks in 2 Pakistani cities
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least 35 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded Friday in three separate bomb attacks in two major Pakistani cities, officials said.A suicide bomber was involved in the first car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed at least 11 people and wounded 20. There were conflicting claims of responsibility for this attack from different extremist groups.
Hours later twin bombings, minutes apart, hit a crowded market in a Shiite-dominated city in Parachinar, the main city in... Read More
Polish human rights official under fire for Holocaust remark
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading Polish human rights official has come under fire for saying the "Polish nation" took part in the implementation of the Holocaust — a controversial statement in a country that never collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.Adam Bodnar, the country's human rights commissioner, or ombudsman, apologized for the comment but members of Poland's conservative government say he should resign.
The flap threatens to weaken Bodnar, who heads one of the last state institutions still independent from the ruling conservative Law... Read More
Ferguson attorney: Brown family settlement $1.5 million
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The insurance company for the city of Ferguson, Missouri, paid $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Brown's parents, the city attorney said Friday.Attorney Apollo Carey disclosed the amount in an email in response to an open records request. The settlement of the federal lawsuit was announced Tuesday, but financial details were not initially released.
Carey declined further comment on the settlement. A phone message seeking comment from the attorney for the family, Anthony Gray, was not immediately returned.
Jury deadlocks in cop's murder retrial; judge says try again
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jurors in the murder retrial of a white University of Cincinnati police officer charged in the fatal traffic stop shooting of an unarmed black motorist said Friday that they are deadlocked, but a judge told them to keep deliberating.The Hamilton County jury announced that it couldn't reach a verdict after more than 27 hours of deliberations over five days. Judge Leslie Ghiz sent them back to the deliberating room.
Prosecutors and the defense agree that Officer Ray Tensing shot 43-year-old Sam DuBose in the head after pulling him over for a... Read More
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