Home

Stock market today: Wall Street slips to start 2024 and gives back some of last year’s big gains

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is starting 2024 weakly on Tuesday and giving back some of its powerful gains from the year before.The S&P 500 was 0.6% lower in midday trading after pulling to the brink of its all-time high set roughly two years ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 11 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.4% lower.Some of last year’s biggest winners were slipping the most, including a 2.9% drop for Apple. Tesla, another one of the “Magnificent 7” Big Tech stocks that drove much of Wall Street’s gains last year, was swinging between losses and gains after reporting its deliveries and production for the end of 2024. It was most recently 0.7% higherNetherlands-based ASML sank after the Dutch government partially revoked a license to ship some products to customers in China. The United States has been pushing for restrictions on exports of chip technology to China. ASML’s U.S.-listed shares fell 3.9%, an...

Nuevas leyes: varios estados verán cambios en educación, anticonceptivos y acceso a las armas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

Varios estados a lo ancho del país recibieron el año nuevo con leyes que entrarán en vigor a lo largo de 2024 sobre temas como la violencia armada, la prohibición de libros y las secciones de juguetes neutrales al género.Un número cada vez mayor de estados requerirá cursos de educación financiera en las escuelas secundarias, mientras que unos pocos otros agregarán acceso a anticonceptivos al eliminar la necesidad de recetas médicas.Mientras las legislaturas estatales se preparan para otro año de propuestas que abordarán los temas más divisivos del país, estas son algunas de las leyes que se harán realidad este 2024:PASILLOS DE JUGUETES NEUTROS EN CUANTO AL GÉNEROA partir de enero, California exigirá que los principales minoristas del estado incluyan secciones de juguetes neutrales al género en sus tiendas. No se permitirá que las nuevas secciones se comercialicen solo para niños o niñas, sino que deben incluir una “selección razonable” de juguetes que puedan comercializarse para men...

Hezbollah’s TV station says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri killed in an explosion south of Beirut

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah’s TV station says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri killed in an explosion south of Beirut.Source

4 teens arrested following chaotic chain of events near Bayside Marketplace

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

Four teens have been arrested following a series of chaotic events near Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami that all began, police said, after a large fight involving teenagers. The incident unfolded Monday evening just after 8 p.m. following calls of a large fight involving juveniles armed with sticks. Video sent to 7News showed a large group of teenagers setting off firecrackers on the road and running, scattered all over and screaming, causing residents, tourists, and people in the area to panic.Officers arrived and were able to clear the area. However, hours later, around 10:45 p.m., police said, a group of juveniles targeted a man’s vehicle near SE Third Avenue and Second Street. Police said when an unknown object was thrown at the man’s vehicle, he exited the vehicle. That is when, police said, the group began to kick and punch the man. During the altercation, the victim was also robbed of his cell phone. Responding officers immediately arrived on the scene and c...

Woman accused of kicking small dog repeatedly in Lowell pleads not guilty, ordered to have no contact with animals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

A woman accused of chasing down and repeatedly kicking a small dog in Lowell pleaded not guilty when she faced a judge on Tuesday.Kimberly Hernandez, 30, appeared in Lowell District Court after she was charged with two counts of animal cruelty for an incident that was caught on surveillance camera on Friday, Dec. 29.The video, captured just after 2 a.m., showed a woman repeatedly kicking a small dog at an apartment building before the animal appeared to scamper away.On Tuesday, prosecutors said additional footage showed Hernandez grab the dog by its neck, throwing the animal, then hitting it.Officials said Hernandez admitted to them that she had been drinking the night of the incident and that she reached a boiling point before the alleged animal abuse.When shown the footage, prosecutors said the 30-year-old became emotional, and that she said she had taken out her frustration on the dog.Hernandez was later released on $5,000 bail. She was also ordered to surrender any pets she owns...

Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

By BASSEM MROUE (Associated Press)BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said.Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an Israeli drone. Israeli officials declined to comment.If Israel is behind the attack it could mark a major escalation in the Middle East conflict. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to retaliate against any Israeli targeting of Palestinian officials in Lebanon.Hamas official Bassem Naim confirmed to The Associated Press that Arouri was killed in the blast. A Hezbollah official speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations also said Arouri was killed. Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada and the European Union.Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing, had headed the group’s pr...

Norfolk DA: Dover tragedy was a murder-suicide

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

The tragedy in a Dover mansion Thursday night that took the lives of three people has been confirmed as a murder-suicide.Rakesh Kamal, 57 (EduNova website)An autopsy indicates that the father and husband of the home, Rakesh Kamal, 57, shot his wife, Teena Kamal, 54, and his daughter, Arianna Kamal, 18, before turning the pistol on himself, according to findings from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for Massachusetts.A final autopsy report should be completed in the coming weeks, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s office.Rakesh Kamal did not have a license nor registration for the .40 caliber Glock 22 found near his body at the crime scene at 8 Wilson’s Way, a private street in Dover.Teena Kamal, 54 (EduNova Inc.)The home was last assessed at nearly $6.8 million for both land and building, the Herald reported last week, and the lender had foreclosed on the Kamal’s mortgage a year ago. The Kamals were underwater financially, a Herald review of legal...

OPP urging ‘better decisions’ from drivers after spike in impaired charges over holidays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

Provincial police are out with the their end of years statistics and are urging Ontario drivers to “make better decisions” behind the wheel after a year-over-year increase in impaired driving charges, including a significant spike during the holiday period.In a post to X on Tuesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Sgt. Kerry Schmidt ran through the 2023 numbers and says impaired driving charges were up for the whole year compared to last, with a more than 20 per cent increase over the holiday period.He says the annual festive RIDE campaign, which ran from Nov. 16 to Jan. 1, saw a total of 916 drivers charged with a total of 1,471 charges.The OPP laid 196 charges in the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, which Schmidt says marks a 21 per cent increase from the same week the prior year.“We do this because people are dying as a result of preventable causes,” Schmidt says. “Please do your part, make better decisions and be a better driver....

After 180 years, a small daily newspaper in the US Virgin Islands says it is closing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A small daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands whose owner credited past generations of literate slaves for its survival is closing after 180 years in print.The St. Croix Avis, which published its first edition in 1844, can no longer compete with social media and digital newspaper subscription services, according to owner and publisher Rena Brodhurst.“That is an impossible mission we are unable to fulfill,” she said in a statement published Sunday.It wasn’t immediately clear when the paper would stop publishing, although Brodhurst said the company would soon exhaust its final shipment of newsprint.“I give thanks to the Moravian Church that insisted the enslaved learn to read, write, and comprehend. The St. Croix Avis would never have been possible without that concept of ensuring a literate Black population,” she said.The paper is based on the island of St. Croix, home to some 41,000 people, the majority of them Black of slave descent.Slavery in the ...

2 N.B. men to learn if they will be tried again after 1984 murder convictions quashed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:00 GMT

FREDERICTON — Two New Brunswick men whose 1984 murder convictions were recently quashed are expected to learn this week whether they will be put on trial again.A hearing is set for Thursday involving Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie at the Court of King’s Bench in Saint John, during which they will be represented by lawyers with Innocence Canada.Innocence Canada co-president Ron Dalton says the two men will plead not guilty and the Crown is expected to reveal at the hearing whether it intends to launch a new trial.Last month federal Justice Minister Arif Virani quashed the second-degree murder convictions related to the Nov. 30, 1983, slaying of George Gilman Leeman.Virani said he found a reasonable basis to conclude a miscarriage of justice occurred in the men’s convictions.Innocence Canada, which advocates for the wrongfully accused, has said that Gillespie served 21 years of his life sentence in prison, and Mailman served 18 years.This report by The Canadian Press ...