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Pin-demonium hits Paris: Inside the pin-trading market at the Olympics 08/02/2024 01:26pm • PARIS (AP) — On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market — more wholesome than cutthroat — has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the center of it all? Pins. The city has seen an influx of collectors from all over the world, each eager to begin or expand their US arrests at Mexico border are expected to drop 30% in July to a new low for Biden's presidency 08/01/2024 04:17pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests of migrants for illegally crossing the border to the United States from Mexico plummeted about 30% in July to a new low for Joe Biden's presidency, U.S. authorities said, raising prospects that a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon. The U.S. Border Patrol continued Bank of England lowers its main interest rate by 0.25%, to 5%, its first cut in over 4 years 08/01/2024 10:59am • LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 as inflationary pressures in the economy have eased. In a statement Thursday, the bank said that by a 5-4 margin, its policymaking panel backed a quarter-point reducti University of California president to step down after 5 years marked by pandemic, campus protests 07/31/2024 09:37pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The president of the University of California announced Wednesday he would step down after five years of leading one of the nation’s largest public university systems through the coronavirus pandemic, labor strikes and campus protests. Michael V. Drake, the first Black Virus that causes COVID widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech researchers say 07/31/2024 01:54pm • The virus that causes COVID-19 has been spreading through Virginia wildlife, and Virginia Tech researchers say well-populated areas are likely where it spread from humans to animals. While SARS-CoV-2 infections were previously identified in wildlife, primarily in white-tailed deer and feral mink, Man who followed woman into her NYC apartment and stabbed her to death sentenced to 30 years to life 07/30/2024 12:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man who followed a woman from the street up six flights of stairs into her New York City apartment and stabbed her to death was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years to life in prison. Assamad Nash, 27, was sentenced in Manhattan state Supreme Court for the Feb. 13, 2022, murder of 35-ye Stores lure back-to-school shoppers with deals and 'buy now, pay later' plans 07/30/2024 08:04am • NEW YORK (AP) — Mass market retailers in the U.S. are plying shoppers with offers for computers, clothes and other back-to-school essentials at affordable prices. To seal the deal, they are marketing “buy now, pay later” services as a way for customers to spread out the cost of going back to c Maduro's last dance? Venezuela's ultimate political survivor faces toughest challenge yet 07/28/2024 10:07am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nicolás Maduro struts across the stage, flapping his arms to a trap merengue beat as a high-pitch rooster crow blasting from a wall of speakers energizes throngs of diehards gathered to support the Venezuelan president’s re-election bid. Campaign jingles are never an a Wisconsin Republicans ask voters to take away governor's power to spend federal money 07/28/2024 01:03am • Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor's power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was free to spend most of that money as he pleased, directing most California date palm ranches reap not only fruit, but a permit to host weddings and quinceañeras 07/27/2024 08:11pm • COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — Claudia Lua Alvarado has staked her future on the rows of towering date palms behind the home where she lives with her husband and two children in a desert community east of Los Angeles. It’s not solely due to the fleshy, sweet fruit they give each year. Their ample shad Celine Dion makes musical comeback at Paris Olympics with Eiffel Tower serenade 07/26/2024 06:17pm • PARIS (AP) — Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance: closing out the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf's “Hymne à l’amour” (“Hymn to Love� Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support 07/26/2024 12:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats. The endorsement, announced Friday in a video showing Sri Lanka will hold presidential election on Sept. 21, its first since declaring bankruptcy in 2022 07/26/2024 03:10am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Sept. 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis. The date was announced by the independent elections commission Friday, which s Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition 07/25/2024 06:29pm • DALLAS (AP) — Goodbye, cattle call. Southwest Airlines said Thursday that it plans to drop the open-boarding system it has used for more than 50 years and will start assigning passengers to seats, just like all the other big airlines. The airline said it has been studying seating options, running Automakers hit 'significant storm,' as buyers reject lofty prices at time of huge capital outlays 07/25/2024 04:14pm • DETROIT (AP) — Investors are punishing automakers' stocks this week after second-quarter earnings reports exposed industrywide issues of slowing sales and high prices, just as the companies are having to spend huge sums to make new electric and gas vehicles. Each auto company has unique problems,