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Black Diamond Group: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/03/2024 05:05am • CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Black Diamond Group Ltd. (BDIMF) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $1.1 million. The Calgary, Alberta-based company said it had profit of 2 cents per share. The work force housing and work space provider posted revenue of $54.6 million Banco Bradesco: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/03/2024 05:03am • OSASCO, Brazil (AP) — OSASCO, Brazil (AP) — Banco Bradesco SA (BBD) on Thursday reported net income of $832.4 million in its first quarter. The Osasco, Brazil-based bank said it had earnings of 7 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 8 cents per share. The financia Gerdau: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/03/2024 05:03am • SAO PAULO SP, Brazil (AP) — SAO PAULO SP, Brazil (AP) — Gerdau SA (GGB) on Friday reported earnings of $412.8 million in its first quarter. The Sao Paulo Sp, Brazil-based company said it had net income of 20 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 12 cents per share. Th Sanctions and a hobbled economy pull the rug out from under Iran's traditional carpet weavers 05/03/2024 04:52am • KASHAN, Iran (AP) — The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over. But for the weavers trying to sell their rugs under its ancient arches, their world has only unraveled since the collapse of Iran's nuclear deal with world power Virginia voter guide: What local races are on the ballot for the 2024 primary election 05/03/2024 04:44am • Visit WTOP’s Election 2024 page for our comprehensive coverage.  Virginia voters are choosing their party's nominees in several local and statewide races as early voting begins in the Commonwealth ahead of its June primary election day. All 11 seats held by Virginia in the U.S. House are A tornado hit an Oklahoma newsroom built in the 1920s. The damage isn't stopping the presses 05/03/2024 12:21am • SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — When Oklahoma and national officials held a press conference Monday to discuss the scale of devastation following tornadoes two days earlier, Kathy John did what she always does: She showed up to report on it for the town’s weekly newspaper, the Sulphur Times-Democrat. But The unexpected, under-the-radar Senate race in Michigan that could determine control of the chamber 05/03/2024 12:03am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Elissa Slotkin had less than half an hour to reckon with a retirement announcement that would reshape Michigan’s political landscape. The state's senior senator and the third-ranking Democrat in the chamber, Debbie Stabenow, was about to reveal that she would retire in 2024 Arizona's Democratic governor signs a bill to repeal 1864 ban on most abortions 05/02/2024 10:46pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a bill Thursday to repeal it. Hobbs says the move is just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive health care in Arizona. The repeal of the 1864 law that the stat E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it 05/02/2024 10:09pm • HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers. When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest informal recycling market, he usually salvaged computers with bulky monitors and heavy processors. Now he works mostly wit Alabama lawmakers approve legislation to ensure President Biden is on the November ballot 05/02/2024 09:54pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials on Thursday approved legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot, mirroring accommodations the state made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump. The House of Representatives voted 93-0 for the legislation Un orangután es visto curando sus heridas con una planta medicinal por primera vez en el mundo 05/02/2024 09:37pm • (CNN) -- Científicos que trabajan en Indonesia observaron a un orangután tratando intencionalmente una herida en su cara con una planta medicinal. Es la primera vez que se documenta este comportamiento.Rakus, un orangután macho de Sumatra, trató una herida en su cara masticando hojas de una plan Time is on their side: Rolling Stones rock New Orleans Jazz Fest after 2 previous tries 05/02/2024 09:26pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is usually akin to a 14-ring musical circus — a variety of musical acts playing simultaneously on stages spread throughout the sprawling infield and grandstand of a historic horse racing track. That changed Thursday afternoon, when Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature 05/02/2024 09:19pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate. This was the first year that expansion has received serious legislative discussion in Mississippi, whi Japan's Kishida unveils a framework for global regulation of generative AI 05/02/2024 09:17pm • PARIS (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI on Thursday, adding to global efforts on governance for the rapidly advancing technology. Kishida made the announcement in a speech at the Paris-based Organization for Ec Send us Patriots: Ukraine's battered energy plants seek air defenses against Russian attacks 05/02/2024 09:14pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At a Ukrainian power plant repeatedly hit by Russian aerial attacks, equipment department chief Oleh has a one-word answer when asked what Ukraine’s battered energy industry needs most: “Patriot.” Ukrainian energy workers are struggling to repair the damage from intensif