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Stock market today: Wall Street drifts ahead of Fed’s next meeting on interest rates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next meeting to focus interest rates.The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in afternoon trading, coming off its second straight losing week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 76 points, or 0.2%, at 34,693, as of 1:42 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.2%.Stocks have been see-sawing since early August on uncertainty about whether the Fed is finally done with its drastic hikes to interest rates. Higher rates have helped cool inflation from its peak last summer, but they also hurt prices for stocks and other investments while slowing the economy.Traders almost universally expect the Fed to keep rates steady at its meeting this week, which ends Wednesday. More attention will be on the forecasts Fed officials will publish about where they expect interest rates, the economy and the job market to head in upcoming years.One of the first the market will fixate on is how high officials at the Fed see i...

With Hollywood on strike, Biden leans on Broadway stars in his hunt for 2024 campaign cash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is getting some big-name fundraising help Monday from Broadway’s top stars. With members of the Writers Guild of America and actors from SAG-AFTRA on strike, Biden is avoiding Hollywood for now and turning to the theater, with Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt among those scheduled to appear at a fundraising concert on behalf of the president.Theatrical work in the U.S. is overseen and contracted by the Actors’ Equity Association, whose some 51,000 American actors and stage managers remain on the job.Both Biden and first lady Jill Biden will attend the event, with tickets ranging from $250 to $7,500. Biden will also take part in another private fundraiser in Manhattan on Monday.Biden, who is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, arrived in New York on Sunday evening so he could squeeze in the fundraisers as the end of the quarter for federal election reporting on fundraising nears. The earl...

Invasive crayfish found in Lake Granby

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently discovered an invasive species in Lake Granby.According to CPW, multiple crayfish were found at the lake during a routine Aquatic Nuisance Species sampling on Aug. 17. On Aug. 31, the samples were confirmed to be rusty crayfish. 4 Colorado national parks will be free to visit on Saturday: What to know After discovering the existence of the invasive species, CPW rangers and area aquatic biologists set traps around Lake Granby, below the dam on the Colorado River and around other lakes that are in close proximity to determine if the species was present in other waters.CPW said the traps in the surrounding lakes did not contain crayfish, and the trap below the Colorado River dam was empty as well.Colorado Parks and Wildlife has discovered rusty crayfish, an invasive species, in Lake Granby. (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)Colorado Parks and Wildlife has discovered rusty crayfish, an invasive species, in Lake Granby. (Colorado Parks an...

NH man dies after ‘apparent medical event’ at Gillette Stadium during Patriots game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

Authorities are investigating after a man died following “an apparent medical event” at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro Sunday night, state police said. A Massachusetts State Police spokesperson in a statement said EMTs responded to the 308/309 section of Gillette Stadium shortly before 11 p.m., during the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Patriots game. The spokesperson said the man, 53, was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, where he was pronounced dead.In addition to EMTs, the state police spokesperson said Foxboro police responded to the incident. As of Monday afternoon, the spokesperson said state police detectives were “investigating the facts and circumstances of the man’s death, including the sequence of events prior to the medical incident.”The Norfolk County District Attorney’s office in a separate statement Monday identified the man who died as Dale Mooney of Newmarket, New Hampshire and said the incident remained under investigation. This is a developing...

2 people charged with murder after 1-year-old dies, 3 children hospitalized from suspected opioid exposure at Bronx day care

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

(CNN) — Two suspects have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy after he and three other children were exposed to suspected opioids at a Bronx day care Friday.Grei Mendez, 36, and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, were arrested Saturday after Nicholas Dominici died and two 2-year-old boys and an 8-month-old girl were exposed to fentanyl and suffered acute opioid intoxication at Divino Niño day care in the Bronx.They were charged with murder, manslaughter, assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a controlled substance, court documents show. They were arraigned and remanded without bail Sunday night.According to court documents, Mendez is the owner and operator of the day care, and Brito is her husband’s cousin and a tenant who resides in a bedroom within the day care.New York City police were called to the day care around 2:30 p.m. Friday, where they discovered three unconscious childre...

iOS 17 release: See what’s new in iPhone features

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

(CNN) — iPhone users: Today’s the day to update to Apple’s latest operating system, iOS17, and unlock a slew of new features that promise to make the iPhone experience more personal and intuitive.Apple first teased iOS17 at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in early June, but you may have missed out on some of the details as the tech giant also unveiled its much-anticipated mixed-reality Vision Pro headset that same day.iPhone users can update to iOS17 starting Monday by clicking on the Software Update section in the phone’s Settings app. Of course, many users have gotten in the habit of backing up important photos or files before downloading the latest software update – or waiting until the second version rolls out (likely in the coming weeks) if they’re afraid of any bugs that could come with the first version of a next-generation mobile operating system.Here are some of the buzziest and most-anticipated new features that iPhone users can expect from iOS17.Live V...

Nashua police ID man charged with driving while intoxicated after fatal collision involving motorcycle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

Police in Nashua, New Hampshire, have identified a 53-year-old man charged in connection with a crash that left two people dead over the weekend.George Palazzo Jr., a Nashua resident, was charged with Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated after he was arrested at the scene of a deadly crash near the intersection of Daniel Webster Highway and Independence Drive on Sunday.According to the Nashua Police Department, an investigation found Palazzo Jr. allegedly crossed over the roadway’s median in his pick-up truck and hit an oncoming motorcycle. The two individuals riding on the motorcycle, identified as a 68-year-old male and a 51-year-old female, were pronounced dead at the scene.In a news release, Nashua PD described how responding officers came in contact with Palazzo Jr. at the crash site and observed that he “appeared to be impaired by alcohol.”“Palazzo Jr. was placed under arrest for Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated, Class B Felony,” the news rele...

Books for fall 2023: Our 75 top picks for serious reading season — and there’s plenty of light stuff here too

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

Christopher Borrelli | Chicago Tribune (TNS)Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that we keep treating the seasons as clearly delineated stretches of time? I love fall, and particularly that lineal moment right before fall gets chilly, that promise of fall. But this is the fall book preview, and though I should be excited to tell you of weeks of incredible titles coming — Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, Zadie Smith on historical fiction, Sly Stone (!) on himself — climatologists warn that summer may linger until Groundhog Day.You know the saying: So many books, so little time? What follows are way too many books to read before Groundhog Day, never mind Thanksgiving. To make matters worse, Chicago keeps opening new bookstores. Fall was already too short. Fall never needed to be shorter. Fall, the most overstuffed of reading seasons, the time of the year when it is said that we become serious readers again, already felt like some melancholy art installation of a season, designed to r...

Violin great Regina Carter is an end-of-life doula when not recording, touring or teaching

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

George Varga | The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)A jazz doula?Violin great Regina Carter has earned worldwide acclaim — and national awards and honors — for her musical skill, vision and ability to shine as a soloist, band leader, composer and first-call collaborator for everyone from Dolly Parton, Wynton Marsalis and Billy Joel to Mary J. Blige, Cuba’s Omara Portuondo and various symphony orchestras.But few know about the selfless musical pursuit of this 2023 NEA Jazz Masters honoree, 2006 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient and Manhattan School of Music faculty member.When Carter is not touring, recording or teaching, she works as a violin-playing doula with critically ill patients in their final months, weeks and days.“I love that I get to travel the world playing this music,” said Carter. “But I also use my music not only to play on stage, but to do hospice and end-of-life work. Using my music for that is extremely rewarding. I usually do i...

A railroad worker died after being struck by a remote-controlled train. Unions have concerns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:26 GMT

A railroad worker died over the weekend after he was struck by a remote-controlled train in a CSX railyard in Ohio, raising concerns among unions about such technology.The death highlights the need for an in-depth review of the use of remote-controlled locomotives, the Transportation Communications Union and Brotherhood of Railway Carmen said in a news release Sunday. Every major railroad has used such locomotives inside, and increasingly outside of, railyards across the country for years.The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the death, which happened shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday in Walbridge, Ohio. Spokesperson Keith Holloway said the worker was struck and fatally injured when he walked into the path of a moving locomotive that was being operated by remote control.Fred Anderson is the third carman killed in an incident involving a remote-controlled locomotive, the unions said.“Enough is enough. A full-scale review of the use and practices around remote-control l...