Category Archives: WPTF News

Summer celebrations meet closed beaches and warnings on US East Coast due to Hurricane Erin
By ALLEN G. BREED and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) - From Florida to New England, people trying to enjoy the last hurrahs of summer along the coast were met with rip current warnin...
Curtis Media Aug 20, 2025

Palantir, Nvidia and other AI stars dim as Wall Street pulls further from its records
By STAN CHOE AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street faded on Tuesday following drops for Nvidia and other stars that have been riding the mania surrounding artificial-intelligence technolo...
Curtis Media Aug 19, 2025

Hurricane Erin forecast to churn up dangerous swells and winds from Florida to New England
By ALLEN G. BREED and JOHN SEEWER Associated PressRODANTHE, N.C. (AP) - Hurricane Erin chugged slowly toward the eastern U.S. coast Tuesday, stirring up treacherous waves that already have f...
Curtis Media Aug 19, 2025
Palantir, Nvidia and other AI stars dim as Wall Street pulls further from its records
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street faded on Tuesday following drops for Nvidia and other stars that have been riding the mania surrounding artificial-intelligence technology. ...
Curtis Media Aug 19, 2025

Hurricane Erin’s massive waves threaten to isolate North Carolina’s Outer Banks
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated PressThere’s a popular T-shirt on Hatteras Island along the North Carolina Outer Banks that says: "One road on. One road off (sometimes)" - poking fun at ...
Curtis Media Aug 19, 2025

Zelenskyy, Trump express hope for trilateral talks with Putin to bring end to Russia-Ukraine war
By JOSH BOAK and SAMYA KULLAB Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump expressed hope that their critical meeting&n...
Curtis Media Aug 18, 2025

Cambridge Dictionary adds ‘skibidi’ and ‘tradwife’ among 6,000 new words
By LYDIA DOYE Associated PressLONDON (AP) - What the skibidi is happening to the English language?"Skibidi" is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additio...
Curtis Media Aug 18, 2025

Hurricane Erin forecast to create dangerous surf, winds along North Carolina’s Outer Banks
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Erin began pelting part of the Caribbean with rain and wind Monday before it’s expected to churn up dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast thi...
Curtis Media Aug 18, 2025

Putin agreed to let US, Europe offer NATO-style security protections for Ukraine, Trump envoy says
By JILL COLVIN Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) - Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and Eu...
Curtis Media Aug 17, 2025

Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, the U.S. Postal Servic...
Curtis Media Aug 17, 2025
