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Julius Baer CEO resigns as Swiss bank announces plans to quit private debt business 02/01/2024 07:27am • GENEVA (AP) — Julius Baer says its CEO is resigning and the Swiss bank is quitting the private debt business as well as setting aside more than a half-billion Swiss francs (dollars) reportedly over its exposure to bankrupt Austrian asset manager Signa. Chairman Romeo Lacher expressed “regret” After visa issues, Bashir set for England debut vs. India in 2nd cricket test. Anderson back in team 02/01/2024 06:47am • VISAKHAPATNAM, India (AP) — England will debut 20-year-old spinner Shoaib Bashir against India in the second test starting Friday, barely a week after he was stranded at home without a visa to come on the tour. Bashir, a British Muslim of Pakistani heritage, was the only member of England’s tour Pearl Jam throws a listening party for their new album that Eddie Vedder calls 'our best work' 02/01/2024 12:11am • WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Pearl Jam blasted out their forthcoming album to a few hundred family, friends, industry insiders and reporters Wednesday, and the tracks showed they are doing anything but mellowing with age. Singer Eddie Vedder, 59, lead guitarist Mike McCready, 57 and bassist Jeff Butler scores 31 points to help Heat beat Kings 115-106 and snap 7-game skid 01/31/2024 11:33pm • MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler scored 31 points and the Miami Heat snapped a seven-game skid with a 115-106 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night. Butler shot 10 of 14 from the field and had seven rebounds for the Heat, who ended their longest losing streak since dropping 15 straight dur House passes bill to enhance child tax credit, revive key tax breaks for businesses 01/31/2024 11:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The House accomplished something unusual Wednesday in passing with broad, bipartisan support a roughly $79 billion tax cut package that would enhance the child tax credit for millions of lower-income families and boost three tax breaks for businesses, a combination that gives law Pinto scores in OT to give Senators 3-2 win over Red Wings 01/31/2024 10:37pm • DETROIT (AP) — Shane Pinto scored on a tip-in at 2:05 of overtime to give the Ottawa Senators a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night. Pinto deflected the puck in after Thomas Chabot shoveled it toward the net. It was his second goal in six games this season. Pinto, who also re Man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia home and posting gruesome video online 01/31/2024 09:10pm • LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia posted a gruesome video on social media that shows him holding up the severed head and railing against the government, authorities said Wednesday. Justin Mohn, 32, who is charged with first-degree murder and abusi Nebraska lawmaker behind school choice law targets the process that could repeal it 01/31/2024 07:06pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker behind a new law that allows millions in state income tax to go to private school tuition scholarships is now targeting the referendum petition process that could allow state voters to repeal it. Omaha Sen. Lou Ann Linehan on Wednesday presented to a legisl Delta SkyMiles® American Express Cards Raise Annual Fees 01/31/2024 07:00pm • American Express and Delta Air Lines have enhanced perks for Delta SkyMiles® American Express cards but also have raised annual fees, they announced on Feb. 1. The changes take effect on Feb. 1, though existing cardholders won't have to pay the annual fee increase -- $100 or $51, depending on you Will the Stock Market Crash in 2024? 6 Risk Factors 01/31/2024 07:00pm • Slivers of sunlight have finally pierced through the clouds in America, as the nation's gross domestic product grew by an annual rate of 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2023. That news should help the U.S. stock market, which has gained 1.6% as measured by the S&P 500 index on a year-to-date basis Powell: Federal Reserve is on track to cut rates, though not likely for months 01/31/2024 05:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rate cuts are coming. Just not yet. The Federal Reserve delivered that message Wednesday, first in a policy statement and then in a news conference at which Chair Jerome Powell reinforced it. The Fed did signal that it’s nearing a long-awaited shift toward cutting rate Georgia district attorney prosecuting Trump has been subpoenaed over claims of improper relationship 01/31/2024 04:51pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have been issued subpoenas by a defense attorney who has alleged Willis and the prosecutor had an inappropriate romantic re Cal Ripken Jr. and Grant Hill are part of the investment team that has agreed to buy the Orioles 01/31/2024 04:38pm • Cal Ripken Jr. and Grant Hill are part of the investor group that has agreed to buy the Baltimore Orioles, and so are former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke. The group is headed by Baltimore native David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group. Additional Move to strip gender rights from Iowa's civil rights law rejected by legislators 01/31/2024 04:37pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers on Wednesday declined to advance a bill that would have stripped gender identity from the state’s civil rights law, a proposal that opponents said could have subjected LGBTQ+ Iowans to discrimination in education, housing and public spaces. The bill has bee Credit Acceptance: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 01/31/2024 04:22pm • SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Credit Acceptance Corp. (CACC) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $93.6 million. The Southfield, Michigan-based company said it had net income of $7.29 per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of th