Category Archives: WPTF News
Flu season in the US is the most intense it's been in at least 15 years
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years. One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of d...
Feb 07, 2025
Some Fort Liberty soldiers will head to US-Mexico border, bringing the total to 3,600
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump's expanding crackdown on immigration. That would eventually ...
Feb 07, 2025
Musk team's access to student loan systems raises alarm over borrowers' personal information
By COLLIN BINKLEY and BIANCA VZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are pushing back against Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as it turns its attention to the Ed...
Feb 07, 2025
Stock market today: Wall Street finishes mixed as strong fashion, tobacco stocks offset Ford's drop
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street drifted through mixed trading Thursday as rising fashion and cigarette stocks worked against drops for Ford Motor and Qualcomm. The S&P ...
Feb 06, 2025
NC-based Honeywell, one of the few remaining US industrial conglomerates, will split into three companies
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Honeywell, one of the last remaining U.S. industrial conglomerates, will split into three independent companies, following in the footsteps of manufacturing gian...
Feb 06, 2025
Edwards and Rudd walked away from NASCAR and never looked back. Their reunion is at the Hall of Fame
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Carl Edwards and Ricky Rudd had very little overlap in their respective NASCAR careers. Edwards only entered the elite Cup Series in 2004 - ...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump blames 'obsolete' US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an "obsolete" computer system used by U.S....
Feb 06, 2025
Irv Gotti, music executive who created Murder Inc. Records, dies at 54
NEW YORK (AP) - Irv Gotti, a music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists such as Ashanti and Ja Rule, has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, which wa...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump urges Americans to 'bring God back into our lives' in National Prayer Breakfast speech
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Thursday that his relationship with religion had "changed" after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year, as h...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump's administration is pulling almost all USAID workers off the job worldwide
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job...
Feb 05, 2025