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Stock market today: Wall Street pulls back from its records

Oct. 21, 2024 17:22 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time highs Monday as some of the steam came out of Wall Street’s long, record-breaking rally. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%, coming off a sixth straight winning week, its longest such streak of the year. The Dow Jones...

2 dead and 22 rescued after migrant boat runs into trouble in rough weather near a Greek island

Oct. 21, 2024 12:16 PM EDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A search and rescue operation off the coast of the eastern Greek island of Samos recovered the bodies of two people reported missing overnight after a boat carrying 24 migrants ran into trouble in rough weather, the coast guard said Monday. The sinking is the...

Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records and closes a 6th straight winning week

Oct. 18, 2024 17:12 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed their latest winning week with more records on Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% to squeak past the all-time high it had set early this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 36 points, or 0.1%, to its own record set the day before, and the...

2 still missing from migrant boat that sank south of Greece

Oct. 17, 2024 07:36 AM EDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescuers searched the Mediterranean Sea near Greece’s southernmost island Thursday for two people reported missing when a boat carrying 100 migrants sank the previous day, Greece’s Coast Guard said. The body of one man was recovered from the sea Wednesday,...

Nelly Korda will miss two events in Asia with a neck injury. She also misses out on the Vare Trophy

Oct. 15, 2024 11:07 AM EDT

Nelly Korda won't be making a sweep of all the LPGA awards this year. The No. 1 player in the women’s world ranking, Korda had to withdraw from the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea and the Maybank Championship next week in Malaysia. She cited a minor neck injury sustained...

Blinken heads to Asia this week for a summit of regional leaders

Oct. 08, 2024 12:48 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his 19th trip in office to Asia this week when he leads the U.S. delegation to a meeting of East Asian leaders in Laos. The State Department said Tuesday that Blinken would fill in for President Joe Biden at the annual...

Gauff rallies to reach China Open final and Sinner, Alcaraz and Djokovic win in Shanghai

Oct. 05, 2024 14:19 PM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — Coco Gauff rallied from a set down for the third consecutive match as she beat Paula Badosa 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 to reach the China Open final on Saturday. The sixth-ranked Gauff will play Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic in Sunday's final. Muchova...

Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake

Oct. 04, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked with elite members of the U.S. intelligence establishment, IronNet promised it was going to revolutionize the way governments and corporations combat...

Alcaraz rallies past Sinner to win China Open and make it 3-for-3 against his top rival this year

Oct. 02, 2024 14:28 PM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz won seven straight points in the decisive tiebreaker to beat top-ranked Jannik Sinner 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (3) and win the China Open on Wednesday, extending his recent mastery over his biggest rival — who is dealing with an ongoing doping case. The...

Asian Development Bank raises growth forecast for region, but warns of risks from trade sanctions

Sep. 25, 2024 04:20 AM EDT

Developing economies in Asia are forecast to grow at a 5.0% annual pace this year, helped by a strong U.S. economy and surging demand for computer chips that power artificial intelligence, the Asian Development Bank said in a report Wednesday. The forecast was revised upward slightly...