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Nevada Senate opponents paint each other as extremists in debate lacking fireworks 10/18/2024 01:26am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists, but fireworks were few during their only face-to-face debate in a presidential battleground state where the Nov. 5 election could determine control of both the White House Right-wing influencers hyped anti-Ukraine videos made by a TV producer also funded by Russian media 10/18/2024 12:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin could not have asked for better publicity at a better time when Ben Swann, a self-described independent journalist who promotes conspiracy theories, released a 12-part video series he promised would reveal dark truths about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Swa Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US 10/17/2024 06:08pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. That's the most at this point in the year since 2 McConnell called Trump 'stupid' and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says 10/17/2024 01:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered," a “despicable human being" and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this m European Central Bank, seeing no signs of recession, cuts interest rates again 10/17/2024 11:35am • LONDON (AP) — The European Central Bank, which sets interest rates for the 20 countries that use the euro currency, does not expect the bloc to slide into recession as it cut borrowing costs once again Thursday in the wake of recent data showing inflation across the bloc falling to its lowest leve Man charged with rapes in Utah says he changed his names due to threats 10/16/2024 06:39pm • A man charged with two rapes in Utah who lived under a series of names in the United Kingdom and allegedly faked his own death said Wednesday that he changed his name because of threats made against his life. During a court hearing in Provo, Nicholas Rossi testified that, after moving to Europe in 2 Editorial Roundup: United States 10/16/2024 04:32pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 11 The Washington Post on AI's impact on chemistry, biomedicine One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered work on the neural networks that undergird artificial intelligence, has warned UK inflation falls to lowest level in over 3 years, cementing expectations for another rate cut 10/16/2024 03:36am • LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has fallen to its lowest level for more than three years, official figures showed Wednesday, a drop that has cemented market expectations that the Bank of England will lower interest rates at its next policy meeting in November. The Office for National Statistic US retail trade group expects holiday season sales to grow more slowly 10/15/2024 05:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The largest retail trade group in the United States said Tuesday that it expects consumers to spend more during the upcoming holiday shopping season but the growth in sales to be slower than last year due to concerns over persistent inflation and prices. The National Retail Federa New study finds connection between COVID and Type 2 diabetes in young people 10/15/2024 05:00am • A connection has been uncovered between COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers, according to researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. The study, published in the JAMA Network Open medical journal, relied on electronic health records of mo Stellantis CEO says carmaker is on pace to fix sales problems after poor performance this year 10/14/2024 05:44pm • DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is fixing its slowing U.S. sales at the right pace after fumbling a marketing plan earlier this year, CEO Carlos Tavares told reporters Monday. Tavares, who last week pushed out the carmaker's chief financial officer and the chief operating officers for both North America Florida neighbors band together to recover after one-two punch from hurricanes Helene and Milton 10/13/2024 09:20pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When ankle-deep floodwaters from Hurricane Helene bubbled up through the floors of their home, Kat Robinson-Malone and her husband sent a late-night text message to their neighbors two doors down: “Hey, we're coming.” The couple waded through the flooded street to the elevat Eggnog before Thanksgiving? Shoppers eager for a new season scramble retail calendars 10/13/2024 07:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — After sipping pumpkin spiced lattes in August and putting up Halloween decorations in late September, Samantha Kowalczyk already looks forward to drinking eggnog-flavored coffee and filling her Wilmington, Delaware, home with cinnamon and sugar cookie scented candles and other holi Vance says ‘childless cat ladies’ comment was ‘dumb’ but his point stands 10/12/2024 10:52am • (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the way he phrased his criticism of “childless cat ladies” — comments that took on new life when Donald Trump tapped the Ohio senator as his running mate — was “dumb.” “I certainly wish that I had said it differently,” V Pink Tax: What Does Price Discrimination Cost Women? 10/10/2024 08:00pm • The pink tax refers to gender-based price discrimination. Originally used to describe the sales taxes women pay for feminine hygiene products, the term has expanded. Now it refers to the practice of charging women more than men for consumer items and services that are essentially the same -- althoug