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Stocks keep climbing as fear keeps falling on Wall Street

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rising again as a bit more fear evaporates from Wall Street. The S&P 500 was up 0.7% early Thursday. The benchmark index is on pace for its fifth gain in the last six days. Stocks are The index is up for the month after struggling in earlier weeks on worries about whether the banking system was cracking under the weight of higher interest rates. The Dow rose 0.5% and the Nasdaq rose 0.8%. Forceful actions by regulators worldwide have helped restore confidence that the current trouble for banks won’t drag down the entire economy like the 2008 financial crisis did. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.Wall Street is poised to open with gains Thursday as worries over turmoil in the banking industry ease and attention turns toward government economic data coming out the next couple of days.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 rose 0.6% before the opening bell Thursday.Markets recently have been wracke...

Who is the most famous baseball player from Colorado?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

DENVER (Stacker) — College football may be king in Alabama, but the state also produced one of baseball's greatest sluggers: “Hammerin'” Hank Aaron is a Mobile native, and locals are proud of each and every one of the 755 home runs he hit when he was suiting up for Milwaukee and Atlanta. That just goes to show that wherever you travel in the United States, baseball is a part of the nation's fabric.Using baseball database Baseball Reference, Stacker located players from every state and ranked each locale's most famous major leaguer. Many included are Hall of Famers; some hail from small towns not known for sports, while others are homegrown heroes who went on to star for the big club. One example is Dave Winfield, from St. Paul, who played during the twilight of his career with the Minnesota Twins.On this virtual road trip across America, each stop is full of interesting nuggets, like the fact that Brooks Robinson once delivered the local newspaper that would later hail him as a base...

National virtual vacation day

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

March 30th is virtual vacation day so sit back and relax in the comfort of your home. You can use free virtual reality apps to tap into the vacation of your dreams without spending thousands of dollars.Virtual reality headset are also a good choice if you are looking for a more immersive experience. National Day Calender has a list of ideas if you want to take part in the fun.

Flo Rida’s son continues recovery after falling from window, mother files lawsuit

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

JERSEY CITY, Nj. (WSVN) – Alexis Adams, mother of Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son has filed a lawsuit after her son was seriously injured after he fell from a fifth-floor window in New Jersey.Zohar Paxton who was diagnosed with autism has been in the intensive care unit recovering from his injuries. He has multiple pelvis fractures, metatarsal fractures, liver lacerations, internal bleeding, and a collapsed lung.The lawsuit filed on March 27, claimed the windows in the building posed a “hazardous condition by installing incorrectly sized guards.” Adams is seeking unspecified compensation to pay for the treatment of his injuries.“As a single mom to a special needs child, this feels like a nightmare. My heart is broken into a million pieces. I am devastated, angry and struggling to come to terms with the fact that my only child has suffered severe injuries due to willful negligence of our landlord and others involved in failing to take necessary ...

French lawmakers to challenge Olympics surveillance before top court

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

PARIS — French left-leaning lawmakers are preparing to challenge the controversial bill allowing AI-powered cameras at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics before the country’s top constitutional court, Greens MP Sandra Regol told POLITICO. “We hope to obtain something [from the Constitutional Council] because the Council of State had many questions to begin with,” Regol said Thursday. “This is a rider law, which touches upon about everything but the Olympic Games.” The French government wants to experiment with large-scale, real-time camera systems supported by algorithms to spot suspicious behavior, including unsupervised luggage and crowd movements like stampedes, for the mega-sports event next year. The plan was adopted by the National Assembly last week and by the Senate in January, despite pushback from digital rights NGOs, including France’s La Quadrature du Net, and MEPs. Members of both chambers will gather on Monday to shepherd a common ve...

‘Deplorable’: Olympics boss slams effort to ban Russia from Paris 2024

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach went on the attack Thursday, blasting European governments over their effort to have Russia and Belarus excluded from the 2024 Paris Olympics. “It cannot be up to the governments to decide which athletes can participate in which competition,” Bach said in blunt remarks at a press conference Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland.“This would be the end of world sport as we know it today,” he added.Bach called European governments “deplorable” for demanding Russians be banned from international competitions and hit out at their “double standards.”“We have not seen a single comment about their attitudes toward the participation of athletes whose countries are involved in the other 70 wars and armed conflicts in the world,” he said. Bach added that because neither Ukraine nor Russia were happy with the IOC’s recommendations on Russian and Belarusian athletes it could indicate the governing body had actually m...

Mass. baby sitter gets 25 years for sexually exploiting children

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — A baby sitter who sexually abused two children she was supposed to be caring for, produced videos and images of the abuse that she then shared with another person, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.Nichole Cyr, 27, of Fall River, was also sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston to five years of probation, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said in a statement.“The crimes committed by Ms. Cyr are unconscionable and every parent’s nightmare,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement. “While a trusted babysitter, she sexually exploited two defenseless children who were 2 and 7 years old at the time. Specifically, she sexually abused the toddler on multiple occasions, documented it, and distributed that documentation.”Cyr was arrested in July 2020 after images and video of the abuse were found on her cellphones, prosecutors said. According to the indictment, the crimes were committed between November 2019 and J...

Gov. Maura Healey announces funding for 450 new affordable housing units across Mass.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

Gov. Maura Healey announced funding for 450 new affordable housing units across Massachusetts on Wednesday as part of this year’s Permanent Supportive Housing Grant Awards.The awards total more than $62 million and will support 12 affordable projects that offer specialized services to residents, including one on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Nearly all the new housing units will be reserved for low-income households, including 317 allocated for very low-income residents. “Our administration is committed to ensuring that Massachusetts residents have access to safe, secure and affordable housing,” Healey said in a statement. “We’re proud to support projects in every region of our state that are providing permanent supportive housing for families, seniors, veterans, young people and people experiencing homelessness. This is the type of housing production that we want to drive in communities across the state to lower costs and address our housing crisis.” Wednesday’s a...

Suspect facing attempted murder charge after victim kicked into pit at State Street Station

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

A 23 year old from Whitman was arrested for attempted murder after police say a victim was kicked into a pit at an MBTA station.MBTA Transit Police say Kedrian Perry Marshall was arrested after a male “violently kicked an unsuspecting individual” into a pit at State Street Station on Tuesday.In an announcement posted to Twitter, Transit Police also shared an image showing someone about to be kicked by an individual wearing a backpack at the station, and another featuring the individual himself.Image provided by the MBTA Transit Police DepartmentOfficials said Marshall was arrested Wednesday after an intense investigation involving Transit police detectives. They also noted the victim was not injured at the time of the incident and declined medical services.https://twitter.com/MBTATransitPD/status/1641438251281170432

Mike Lupica: It’s time for the Yankees to play the young kids and become fun again

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:50:04 GMT

The Yankees will be good again this season. Why? Because they’re always good, even if it’s been a long time — 2009? 1909? — since they were good enough.They will hit a lot of home runs because they always hit a lot of home runs, and that doesn’t just mean Aaron Judge. Sometimes they even lead the league in home runs.And they’ll have pitchers hurt because they always have pitchers hurt, another area where they always seem to lead the league. Maybe they’ll even have a big closer again in Clay Holmes, unless he is another Yankee pitcher who gets hurt. Seriously: Are you surprised that Carlos Rodon has already felt something in his pitching elbow? I’m not.But you know what we really want from the 2023 Yankees? We want them to be fun again.We want them to be a show. We want them to be something more than Judge because, let’s face it, other than Judge, who were you really buying a ticket to watch play last season?The Yankees were fun w...