NEW YORK (AP) — Retail sales in April were unchanged from March as inflation continued to sting and elevated interest rates made taking on debt more burdensome. The number followed a revised 0.6% pace in March, according to Commerce Department data released Wednesday. It rose 0.9% in February. That comes after sales fell 1.1% in […]
As marchers on Monday walked where the fires of the Holocaust burned the fiercest, anti-Israel protesters chanted and waved Palestinian flags. The “March of the Living” takes place on Holocaust Remembrance Day as marchers walk in silence from the death camp of Auschwitz to nearby Birkenau, where between 2.1 million and 4 million people — […]
Russian missile and drone strikes led to a 20% spike in Ukrainian civilian casualties in March versus the previous month, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said this month. U.N. monitors have verified that at least 604 civilians were killed or injured throughout Ukraine in March. The casualties were mainly due to attacks […]
BANGKOK, Thailand — In a country that has long billed itself as the “Detroit of Asia,” Thailand’s new generation of Henry Fords are coming from a very different place. China’s imported electric vehicle companies are heavily denting U.S. and Japanese car sales in Thailand, and Chinese manufacturers are investing more than $1 billion to assemble […]
NEWS AND OPINION: This phrase comes to us from Women’s March, a large group of feminist activists that has been staging large-scale marches and protests in the nation’s capital and other U.S. cities since 2017. “On Thursday, starting at 10:00 a.m. — as the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments over Donald Trump’s claim of […]
LOS ANGELES — The spring homebuying season is off to a sluggish start as home shoppers contend with elevated mortgage rates and rising prices. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell 4.3% in March from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.19 million, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. That’s […]
Dawn Staley and South Carolina completed their perfect season, ending Caitlin Clark’s historic college career with an 87-75 win over Iowa in the NCAA championship game Sunday. With Staley directing a relentless attack from the sideline, the Gamecocks (38-0) became the 10th Division I team to go through a season without a loss. And they […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers delivered another outpouring of jobs in March, adding a sizzling 303,000 workers to their payrolls and bolstering hopes that the economy can vanquish inflation without succumbing to a recession in the face of high interest rates. Last month’s job growth was up from a revised 270,000 in February and was […]
The Caitlin Clark effect has elevated women’s basketball to new heights, so much so that tickets for this weekend’s Final Four games are much more expensive than those for the men. Interest in women’s basketball is so high at the moment that watching either of Friday’s two seminal games will cost an average of $1,994, […]
LSU forward Angel Reese was understandably emotional on Monday night after Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes sent her and the Tigers home with a gritty 94-87 victory in the NCAA Tournament in Albany, New York. But one of her postgame comments has some people scratching their heads — and rightly so. Reese, a junior […]
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