Category Archives: World/National
Stock market today: Most of Wall Street rises after the Fed cuts interest rates
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Most U.S. stocks rose Thursday, as the Federal Reserve cut interest rates again to make things easier for the economy. The S&P 500 climbed 0.7% to a...
Nov 07, 2024
Harris says nation must accept election results while urging supporters to keep fighting
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Kamala Harris said Wednesday that "we must accept the results of this election" as she encouraged supporters to continue fig...
Nov 06, 2024
Stocks and bitcoin jump after Trump's victory. So do worries about inflation as Dow surges 1,500
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk's Tesla, banks and bitcoin all stormed higher Wednesday as investors made bets on what Donald Trump's return to the Whi...
Nov 06, 2024
AP VoteCast: Voter anxiety over the economy and a desire for change return Trump to the White House
By JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A disaffected electorate wanted former President Donald Trump to return to the White House, a blatant rejection of Vice President Kam...
Nov 06, 2024
The first car made during Soviet-era in Poland goes on display 73 years later
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI Associated Press OTREBUSY, Poland (AP) - The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II went on display Friday near Warsaw after it was ...
Nov 06, 2024
Republicans take Senate majority and eye unified power with Trump
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate and are fighting to keep their majority in the U.S. House, which would prod...
Nov 06, 2024
Trump wins the White House in political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters
By ZEKE MILLER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a fo...
Nov 06, 2024
Spain flood survivors hurl mud at the royals and top government officials
By DAVID MELERO and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press PAIPORTA, Spain (AP) - A crowd of enraged survivors hurled clots of the mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the Spanish royal couple on Sunday duri...
Nov 03, 2024
Crashing waves in a hilltop village, a night of terror from Spain's floods
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press CHIVA, Spain (AP) - Irene Cuevas will never forget the sound of the waves crashing below her apartment's balcony. If only there had been a flash of lightning in the d...
Nov 03, 2024
'It is all in ruins.' The shattered lives of Paiporta at the epicenter of Spain's floods
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press PAIPORTA, Spain (AP) - The pictures of the smiling toddlers on the wall somehow survived. Most everything else in the daycare - the cradles, the highchairs, the toys ...
Nov 02, 2024