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US stocks drift to a mixed finish as yields fall after a discouraging report on US shoppers
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to a mixed finish after flirting with record highs. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% Tuesday after briefly rising above its all-time high, which was set a couple weeks ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.1% to its own record, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.6%. The action was stronger in the bond market, where Treasury yields sank following a discouraging report on how much money U.S. retailers made in December. That raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this year to boost the economy.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS... Read More
Gov. Tim Walz says federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota could end within days
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials.The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Monday with border czar Tom Homan and with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday morning. Homan took over the Minnesota operation in late January after the second fatal shooting by federal officers and amid growing political backlash and questions about how the operation was... Read More
Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country's first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.The multicolored flag, one of the world's most well known emblems of LGBTQ+ rights, was quietly removed in recent days from a flagpole on the National Park Service-run site, which centers on a tiny park in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. It's across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where patrons' rebellion against a police raid helped... Read More
Man convicted of killing a traveling salesman scheduled for first Florida execution of 2026
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery is set to be executed Tuesday evening in the first lethal injection this year in Florida.Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. Heath was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and other charges in the killing of Michael Sheridan the previous year.
On Tuesday, Heath awoke at 5:07 a.m. and had two visitors during the day, his mother and a friend, according to He did... Read More
Google, Meta, push back on addiction claims in landmark social media trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors in a landmark social media case that seeks to hold tech companies responsible for harms to children got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and the two remaining defendants, Meta and YouTube.At the core of the Los Angeles case is a 20-year-old identified only by the initials “KGM,” whose case could determine how thousands of similar lawsuits will play out. KGM and the cases of two other plaintiffs have been selected to be bellwether trials — essentially test cases for both... Read More
Top Stories
- FBI search of Georgia offices tied to probe of possible 2020 election 'defects,' affidavit says
- Google, Meta, push back on addiction claims in landmark social media trial
- Winter Olympics recap: Shiffrin out of the medals again, Klaebo wins another gold
- FBI releases first surveillance images of masked person on Nancy Guthrie's porch
- ICE chief defends his officers' actions before Congress after the deaths of 2 protesters
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims
- Top Iran security official is in Oman, the site of talks with the US, likely over nuclear messages
- Annual governors' gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes Democrats
- US stocks flirt with records as yields fall after a discouraging report on US shoppers
- Trump set to gut US climate change policy and environmental regulations: White House official
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