NEW YORK — Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday, putting the market a bit closer to the record high it set in late March. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and is within about 0.5% of its record set in late March. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 52 points, or 0.1% […]
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are drifting around the edge of their record heights on Monday. The S&P 500 was edging 0.1% lower in afternoon trading and is less than 1% below its record set at the end of March. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 72 points, or 0.2%, as of 1:59 p.m. […]
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge. The foray came after hours of whiplash in the Israel–Hamas war, with the militant […]
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — Several years ago the Smithsonian magazine ran an elegant story about the use of postcards in American culture as a way both to communicate to loved ones far away and to illustrate what the traveler wants you to see about where they have been. […]
The path of Monday’s solar eclipse will be narrower than projected, according to a recent adjustment in calculations, meaning some viewers expecting to see the total eclipse will miss out. John Irwin, an expert in eclipse predictions, discovered that the trajectory of totality — where the sun is fully covered by the moon — will […]
The Biden-Harris foreign policy would be comical if it weren’t for all the dead bodies stacking up in Europe and the Middle East. I try to start Mondays on a positive note, but two of the first few weekend stories that came across my desk made it clear that dead people are far less […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The New York state Legislature on Wednesday approved a Democrat-drawn congressional map that gives the party a modest boost in a few battleground districts, helping their candidates in a heavily contested election year when House races in the state could determine control of Congress. Lawmakers in the Democrat-dominated statehouse approved the […]
NEWS AND ANALYSIS: Growing dangers of a war with China highlight the urgent need to improve the military’s ability to supply troops in the Pacific with weapons and other support, the admiral in charge of the Pacific Fleet says. Navy Adm. Sam Paparo, the commander slated for promotion to head the Indo-Pacific Command, said in […]
DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) – A massive landslide on a coastal bluff has left a Southern California mansion on the edge of a cliff, but authorities have determined that the ocean-view home and neighboring residences are not in immediate danger. The slide occurred last week in the city of Dana Point after back-to-back drenching storms […]
At the end of the year, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up. Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial untruths of some eight years that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s various get-rich-quick schemes. All were predicated on the perception of […]
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