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Stock market today: Wall Street limps toward second straight day of losses before the bell
Wall Street’s lull threatened to stretch into a second day Thursday as more corporate earnings are released ahead of the government's weekly layoffs data. Futures for the S&P 500 ticked down 0.1% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell less than 0.2%. Airbnb tumbled 9.6% in...
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Which bombs has the United States stopped shipping to Israel?
The United States has halted the shipment of some types of heavy bombs to Israel and US President Joe Biden has also pledged to halt the supply of some offensive weapons and artillery shells to the country if it goes ahead with its assault on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Here’s what we know so...
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Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’
On Wednesday, May 8, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became the first senior administration official to publicly confirm that the US government has uncharacteristically paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Over the past seven months, the Israeli military has killed some 35,000...
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US emboldening Philippines to square off with China at sea
US Marines joined Filipino counterparts on May 5, 2024, for a mock battle at a telling location: a small, remote territory just 100 miles off the southern tip of the contested island of Taiwan. The combat drill is part of the weekslong Exercise Balikatan that has brought together naval, air and...
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Israel shells Rafah as Biden vows arms suspension
Palestinians work to remove debris following an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday. Reuters Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday as US President Joe Biden offered his starkest warning yet over the conduct of its war against Hamas, vowing to cut off arms transfers if an offensive into the...
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That '70s Show: Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter?
Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade -- the 1970s. Advertisement For those who don't remember, the late 1970s under part-time President Gerald Ford and then...
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4 Things Leaders Need to Know to Support Working Moms
The U.S. economy, organizations and communities increasingly rely on mothers. Labor force participation among mothers with young children (ages 0-4) is at an all-time high. Currently, more than 70% of mothers of children younger than age 5 and about 80% of mothers of children ages 5-18 are working....
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House rejects Greene’s effort to remove speaker
WASHINGTON – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos. One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress,...
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Stormy Daniels testifies she had sex with Trump, defense attacks her credibility
Porn star Stormy Daniels described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial on Tuesday, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public. For several hours Daniels, 45, offered riveting details on the...
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US pauses weapons delivery to Israel over Rafah offensive concerns: Reports
US President Joe Biden’s administration paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week in opposition to apparent moves by the Israelis to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a senior administration official has said. Biden has been trying to head off a full-scale assault by the Israelis...
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