By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are lower after Federal Reserve officials indicated they were ready to raise interest rates sooner than expected if needed to cool inflation. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney declined. Tokyo advanced. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.2% before
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are lower after Federal Reserve officials indicated they were ready to raise interest rates sooner than expected if needed to cool inflation. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney declined. Tokyo advanced. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.2% before
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Jamie Dimon is trying to take back a joke about China and its powerful political machine. Speaking at an event in Boston on Tuesday, the JPMorgan CEO said he “made a joke” during a recent trip to Hong Kong, referencing the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary. “The Communist Party
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Justen Glad scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of a penalty shootout, and Real Salt Lake beat Seattle 6-5 in the tiebreaker after a scoreless game to eliminate the Sounders in the opening round of the MLS Cup playoffs. Real Salt Lake won despite
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Justen Glad scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of a penalty shootout, and Real Salt Lake beat Seattle 6-5 in the tiebreaker after a scoreless game to eliminate the Sounders in the opening round of the MLS Cup playoffs. Real Salt Lake won despite
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kristaps Porzingis scored 30 points, Luka Dončić had 26 in his return to the Dallas lineup, and the Mavericks defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 112-104 in overtime. The Mavericks were up 102-92 late in the fourth quarter before the Clippers scored 11 of the final
Continue ReadingBy Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Mammoths are long to be known as ancient land dwellers, so scientists were shocked to find remains from the animal at the bottom of the ocean. Pilot Randy Prickett and scientist Steven Haddock, researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), discovered a Columbian mammoth tusk 185 miles offshore and
Continue ReadingORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Ahmir Langlais came off the bench to score 15 points to lead five players in double figures and South Carolina Upstate held off South Carolina State 82-78. Langlais sank 5 of 6 shots and grabbed seven rebounds for the Spartans (2-3). Edward Oliver-Hampton topped the Bulldogs (1-6) with 19 points off
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The spacecraft is called DART, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It lifted
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23 (1:21 a.m. ET November 24) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The spacecraft is called DART, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It lifted
Continue ReadingDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli warplanes attacked some army positions in the country’s central region leaving two civilians dead and seven people wounded, six of them soldiers. The unnamed military official was quoted by state media as saying that the Israeli warplanes fired their missiles early Wednesday while flying over neighboring Lebanon’s
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department’s review of the 1966 death of an employee of wealthy heiress Doris Duke. The city manager in a statement Tuesday said there is no new evidence that would suggest that the death of Eduardo Tirella after
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department’s review of the 1966 death of an employee of wealthy heiress Doris Duke. The city manager in a statement Tuesday said there is no new evidence that would suggest that the death of Eduardo Tirella after
Continue ReadingNORTH ANDOVER, Mass. (AP) — Jordan Minor and Mykel Derring both scored a career-high 25 points and Merrimack breezed to a 75-60 victory over Hartford. Minor hit 8 of 11 shots and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Warriors (4-3). Derring nailed 7 of 9 from 3-point range. Hunter Marks topped the Hawks (0-5) with 14
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three men have been convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. He’s the Black man who was running empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision last year when the white strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street and blasted him with a shotgun. The
Continue ReadingBy ERIK GARCÍA GUNDERSEN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — CJ McCollum scored 32 points and the Portland Trail Blazers handed the depleted Denver Nuggets their fifth straight loss with a 119-100 victory. Damian Lillard had 25 points and five assists to help the Blazers to their fourth consecutive win and ninth in a row
Continue ReadingBy Kay Jones, Jason Kravarik and Travis Caldwell, CNN Shortly before an SUV barreled into a crowd of parade marchers and pedestrians on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at least one officer described the driver as having “no emotion” on his face during attempts to slow him down. Six people were killed and another 62 were
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Tiffany & Co. acaba de presentar su nueva joya más cara. El collar “The World’s Fair Necklace”, presentado este domingo en Dubái, cuenta con unos impresionantes 180 quilates de diamantes en platino. Su pieza central es un “diamante Empire” de 80 quilates, ovalado, impecable y de color D
Continue ReadingSEATTLE — Rip Economou had a career-high 20 points as Seattle rolled past Pacific Lutheran 89-40. Brett Williams led the Lutes with 11 points.
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