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Stock market today: Most of Wall Street edges lower after Fed delivers a big cut to rates
By STAN CHOE AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stock indexes edged lower Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kicked off its efforts to prevent a recession with a bigger-than-usual ...
Sep 18, 2024
North Carolina’s highest court hears challenge to law allowing more time for child sex abuse suits
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Challenges to a portion of a state law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages dominated oral...
Sep 18, 2024
Federal Reserve signals end to inflation fight with a sizable half-point rate cut
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two year...
Sep 18, 2024
Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris for president
By JOSH BOAK and TOM KRISHER Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined Wednesday to endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump for president, saying neither cand...
Sep 18, 2024
The Smoky Mountains’ highest peak is reverting to the Cherokee name Kuwohi
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.Th...
Sep 18, 2024
Air Force to deploy Osprey aircraft in weeks following review over deadly crash
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) - Air Force Special Operations Command says it is weeks from deploying its fleet of CV-22B Osprey aircraft for counter terror operations, after grounding its crews in the wak...
Sep 18, 2024
Lebanon is rocked again by exploding devices as Israel declares a ‘new phase’ of war
By BASSEM MROUE, JOHNSON LAI, and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) - Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in an apparent second wave of...
Sep 18, 2024
Ship owner cut corners on repairs before deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, US says in $100M lawsuit
By LEA SKENE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated PressBALTIMORE (AP) - The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the Baltimore bridge collapse recklessly cut corners and ignored kn...
Sep 18, 2024
Blinken says surprise escalations threaten to derail talks for a cease-fire in Gaza
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated PressCAIRO (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed frustration Wednesday at surprise escalations that threaten to derail efforts to broker a cease-fire d...
Sep 18, 2024
Railroads and regulators must address the dangers of long trains, report says
By JOSH FUNK Associated PressOMAHA, Neb. (AP) - As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pu...
Sep 17, 2024