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Montana man arrested for intentionally running a motorcycle off the road and killing the driver 09/26/2024 05:16pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) ��� A Montana man has been arrested after witnesses said he intentionally and repeatedly swerved his car at three motorcycles in south-central Montana, running one off the road and killing its driver, officials in Carbon County said. Prosecutors want to charge Michael J. Gambale w Stock market today: Wall Street ticks to another record as stocks worldwide rally 09/26/2024 05:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. stocks rose to another record Thursday as financial markets around the world rallied again. The S&P 500 added 0.4% to set an all-time high for the third time this week and the 42nd time this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 260 points, or 0.6%, to finish just Judge tosses lawsuit against congressman over posts about man not involved in Chiefs' rally shooting 09/26/2024 04:09pm • KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) ��� A federal judge this week tossed a lawsuit against a Tennessee congressman who falsely accused a Kansas man of being involved in a deadly shooting at a rally celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory this year. U.S. District Judge John Broomes ruled that the c The Latest: NYC mayor charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign funds from foreign sources 09/26/2024 03:58pm • New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on federal charges alleging that he took bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. The U.S. attorney���s office in Manhattan alleges in the indictment that Adams ���compounded his gains��� from the illegal contributions by ga Feds rarely punish hospitals for turning away pregnant patients 09/26/2024 03:09pm • As the pregnant woman's contractions rolled in every two minutes, staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dispatched an ambulance to send her elsewhere. Just two minutes later, she gave birth to a 6-pound baby girl in the cab of the ambulance down the road fr Lyft scooters will be unavailable in DC by October 09/26/2024 03:05pm • If you're looking to get around D.C. on two wheels, don't count on riding a Lyft scooter. You can still book a bike on the rideshare company's app through its partnership with Capital BikeShare. But Lyft's scooters will be gone by next week. In a message to users, the company announced its Louisiana prosecutors drop most serious charge in deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene 09/26/2024 03:05pm • Louisiana prosecutors on Thursday dismissed the most serious remaining charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, dropping a negligent homicide count against a veteran trooper seen on body-camera video dragging the Black motorist by his ankle shackles and forcing him to lie face down before Drag queen Pattie Gonia aims to give the climate movement a makeover with joy and laughter 09/26/2024 01:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Dressed in a sequin-laced, sleeveless top and puffy pink skirt, drag queen Pattie Gonia strides around the stage in white high-heeled boots that come up to the knees, telling the crowd that nature must be a woman. ���She is trying to kill us in the most passive-aggressive way possi Deadly flooding in Central Europe made twice as likely by climate change 09/26/2024 01:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood and intensified the heavy rains that led to devastating flooding in Central Europe earlier this month, a new flash study found. Torrential rain in mid-September from Storm Boris pummeled a large part of central Europe, including Editorial Roundup: United States 09/26/2024 12:10pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 20 The Washington Post on what to expect on election night and advises patience In 2020, the United States did not have election night so much as election week. Factors including a slow count of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvani Ricciardo fired by Red Bull and will be immediately replaced by Lawson at sister-team RB 09/26/2024 12:00pm • Daniel Ricciardo, one of the most popular and likeable drivers on the Formula 1 grid, was released by Red Bull Racing on Thursday and will be replaced immediately by Liam Lawson. The 35-year-old Ricciardo knew at the Singapore Grand Prix it was likely his final F1 race ��� essentially confirmed when US health authorities need to play a larger role in cannabis policy, a new report says 09/26/2024 11:14am • With more Americans using ever-stronger marijuana, a federal advisory panel is calling for a public health approach that���s a big departure from ���Just Say No.��� Thursday's report proposes a health-focused strategy with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention taking a larger role in canna Harrods apologizes to women who say they were abused by former owner Mohamed Al Fayed 09/26/2024 10:38am • LONDON (AP) ��� The managing director of Harrods said Thursday the London department store is ���deeply sorry��� for failing employees who say they were sexually assaulted by late owner Mohamed Al Fayed. Police, meanwhile, said that over almost two decades, 19 women had made sex crime allegations ag Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 quadruple murder 09/26/2024 10:37am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing a decision that made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate. Iwao Hakamada���s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death US economy grew at a solid 3% rate last quarter, government says in final estimate 09/26/2024 10:26am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The American economy expanded at a healthy 3% annual pace from April through June, boosted by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said Thursday, leaving its previous estimate unchanged. The Commerce Department reported that the nation's gross domestic