Category Archives: WPTF News
Wall Street holds near its record high even as oil prices climb
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market is holding near its record high Thursday as Wall Street waits for more clues about what will happen in the Iran war before making ...
Apr 16, 2026 Stock market numbers are displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy to add jobs at Kinston Transpark
KINSTON, N.C. (NCN News) - The U.S. Navy is coming to Kinston's Global Trans Park, in a deal that could lead to 400 jobs. The TransPark and the Navy have signed a 10-year agreement that will bring mor...
Apr 16, 2026 FILE - A U.S. Navy F-35C performs during the Pacific Airshow on October 01, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California. (Photo by Michael Heiman/Getty Images)
ChatGPT maker OpenAI shifts its focus to business users amid Anthropic pressure
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer The same ChatGPT chatbot that gave OpenAI's chief financial officer Sarah Friar a tilapia recipe for a recent Sunday night dinner at home is also now doing her mos...
Apr 16, 2026 FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
What to know about the first-round matchups in the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer As playoff races were raging down the stretch, Commissioner Gary Bettman pointed out that the NHL in years past has had first-round matchups decided on the final day ...
Apr 16, 2026 Carolina Hurricanes' Jordan Martinook (48) battles for the puck with Ottawa Senators' Nick Jensen (3) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)
Pakistani delegation meets in Tehran hoping for more US-Iran talks before ceasefire ends
By SAMY MAGDY, SAM METZ, MUNIR AHMED and MIKE CORDER Associated Press CAIRO (AP) - Pakistan's army chief met Wednesday in Tehran with Iran's foreign minister in the latest diplomatic move to ease tens...
Apr 15, 2026 In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, meets with Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir in Tehran, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)
Justice Jackson chides Supreme Court conservatives over pro-Trump emergency orders
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme CourtJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues' use of emergency orders to benefit the Tr...
Apr 15, 2026
Two face weapons, drug, child endangerment charges in Lee County
SANFORD, N.C. (WPTF) - Two people are now facing drugs and weapons charges after being caught with three children in a car. According to a social media post, on Tuesday (April 14), Lee County Sheriff'...
Apr 15, 2026
Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, ...
Apr 15, 2026 FILE - The Ticketmaster logo is seen along the sideline of the field before an NFL football game, Sept. 15, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
Wall Street hits a record as S&P 500 continues its 2-week rally on hopes for the Iran war
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market hit a record Wednesday after adding to its two-week rally built on hopes the war with Iran won't create a worst-case scenario for ...
Apr 15, 2026 Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 13, 2026 in New York City. Stocks opened up lower after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz following failed negotiations with Iran that sent oil prices back over $100 per barrel. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Treasury secretary says US will ramp up economic pain on Iran
By SAMY MAGDY, SAM METZ, MUNIR AHMED and MIKE CORDER Associated Press CAIRO (AP) --Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Wednesday that the U.S. will ramp up its infliction of economic pain on Iran....
Apr 15, 2026 MUSCAT, OMAN - MARCH 30: A police speed boat patrols the port as oil tankers and high speed crafts sit anchored at Muscat Anchorage near the Strait of Hormuz on March 30, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. (Photo by Elke Scholiers/Getty Images)