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How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 7/26/2023 07/26/2023 04:18pm • Wall Street held steady after the Federal Reserve followed through on expectations and raised its benchmark interest rate to the highest level in more than two decades. Treasury yields fell following Wednesday���s announcement, which traders hope will mark the final increase of this cycle. The S&a Union Pacific, Boeing rise; Snap, Microsoft fall: Wednesday, 7/26/2023 07/26/2023 04:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Wednesday: Union Pacific Corp. (UNP), up $22.45 to $238 The railroad operator installed a CEO that an activist investor had been pushing for. Boeing Co. (BA), up $18.68 to $232.80 The aircraft maker reported a sm WTOP News Announces New Afternoon Anchor 07/26/2023 08:21am • Washington, D.C. ��� June 26, 2023 ��� WTOP News today announced Anne Kramer as their new afternoon drive anchor alongside co-anchor Shawn Anderson. Anne Kramer and Shawn Anderson will now be gracing the airwaves together from 2-7 p.m., Monday through Friday, on WTOP. Prior to joining WTOP 1.5 ye Deshazor Everett on crash that killed fianc��e, distracted driving PSA and possible return to NFL 07/26/2023 05:38am • Former Washington Commanders player Deshazor Everett knows what the internet says about him: "If you Google my name, it's probably the first thing that pops up." "It" is the Dec. 23, 2021, single-car crash on Gum Spring Road near Aldie, Virginia that killed his fianc��e Olivia Peters, and has Microsoft reports $20.1B quarterly profit as it promises to lead 'the new AI platform shift' 07/25/2023 05:38pm • Microsoft reported a 20% spike in quarterly profits Tuesday, helping to fuel its battle to get ahead of rivals like Google, Amazon and Facebook parent Meta in selling the latest artificial intelligence technology. The software giant said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit was $20.1 billion, or $2.69 p Google rebounds from unprecedented drop in ad revenue with a resurgence that pushes stock higher 07/25/2023 05:32pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google snapped out of an unprecedented advertising slump during its latest quarter, signaling a return to growth cycle needed to fuel investments in artificial intelligence technology that expected to reshape the competitive landscape. The results for the April-June period rel Alphabet: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 07/25/2023 04:09pm • MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) ��� MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) ��� Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $18.37 billion. On a per-share basis, the Mountain View, California-based company said it had net income of $1.44. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The a Winners named for the 2023 Capital ORBIE Awards 07/25/2023 03:13pm • The Capital area's chief information officers and technology leaders joined at JW Marriott Washington D.C. on July 21 for the 2023 Capital ORBIE Awards, hosted by Washington Business Journal. The keynote speaker and Leadership Award recipient was Aaron Weis, managing director of Google Public Sect Apple App Store - Top Apps 07/25/2023 11:49am • Top Free iPhone Apps (US): 1. Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire, Temu 2. Remini - AI Photo Enhancer, Bending Spoons Apps ApS 3. MONOPOLY GO!, Scopely, Inc. 4. Max: Stream HBO, TV, & Movies,WarnerMedia Global Digital Services, LLC 5. CapCut - Video Editor, Bytedance Pte. Ltd 6. Threads, an Instagram Santa Barbara's paper, one of California's oldest, stops publishing after owner declares bankruptcy 07/24/2023 08:08pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� The Pulitzer Prize-winning Santa Barbara News-Press, one of California's oldest newspapers, has ceased publishing after its owner declared the 150-year-old publication bankrupt. The newspaper became an online-only publication in April. But its last digital edition was posted F Historic Danville house of worship morphing into Airbnb 07/22/2023 09:01am • DANIVILLE, Va. (AP) ��� When Jeremy DiMaio took a look at the late 19th-century Gothic Revival church along Jefferson Avenue about three years ago, he asked his then 12-year-old daughter if he should buy it. ���She said, ���no, but I know you will,������ DiMaio recalled during an interview inside th Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House 07/21/2023 04:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden said Friday that new commitments by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by his White House are an important step toward managing the Prosecutors say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness at his upcoming trial 07/21/2023 04:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness against him at his upcoming trial by giving a newspaper personal things she wrote while she was the chief executive of his cryptocurrency hedge fund trading firm, prosecutors say. They asked a judge late Thursday to order tri Hong Kong court to decide whether to ban broadcast and distribution of protest song 07/21/2023 04:58am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A Hong Kong court will hand down a closely-watched decision over whether to ban the broadcast and distribution of ���Glory to Hong Kong,��� a protest song after the government asked it to do so in the name of national security. The song was written during the 2019 anti-government Google says it's developing tools to help journalists create headlines, stories 07/20/2023 05:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Google says it is in the early stages of developing artificial intelligence tools to help journalists write stories and headlines, and has discussed its ideas with leaders in the news industry. The rapidly-evolving technology is already raising concerns about whether it can be trus