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El Salvador's president seeks help in caring for country's thousands of stray dogs and cats 10/17/2025 07:01am • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — After drubbing El Salvador’s gangs during a more than three-year state of emergency, President Nayib Bukele turned his attention this month to another persistent, but softer, problem: his country’s many, many stray cats and dogs. “Thousands of dogs and cats l Credit Card Time Machine: Americans Are Cutting Back Like 15 Years Ago 10/16/2025 08:00pm • Credit card spending has dipped for the third time this year, according to recent data from the Federal Reserve. Credit card balances have also dropped 2.5% in the past 12 months, the largest decline we've seen since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Even as the Fed attempts to curb infla Trump officials back firm in fight over California offshore oil drilling after huge spill 10/16/2025 06:08pm • When the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst oil spill in decades. More than 140,000 gallons (3,300 barrels) of oil gushed out, blackening beaches for 150 miles (240 kilometers) from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, pollut After Georgia loss, House runoff gives Trump another chance 10/16/2025 05:45pm • MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — Nearly a month after his preferred candidate for governor in Georgia was defeated by more than 50 points, former President Donald Trump has an opportunity next week to demonstrate he still has some sway in this onetime Republican stronghold. A runoff election for a U.S. House Greene, McBath win US House races; Cuellar in tight runoff 10/16/2025 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the last remaining anti-abortion Democrats in Congress was facing his toughest primary challenge yet in Tuesday's runoff, while a staunch gun safety advocate ousted her House colleague in a fierce member-on-member congressional primary in suburban Atlanta. Meanwhile, in no US stocks drop on worries about banks 10/16/2025 04:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, hurt by drops for midsized banks as worries flare about the loans they’ve made. The S&P 500 slid 0.6% in its latest up-and-down day after erasing a morning gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 301 points, or 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composi Energy Department offers $1.6 billion loan guarantee to upgrade transmission lines across Midwest 10/16/2025 04:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Energy said Thursday it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation's largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy. How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 10/16/2025 10/16/2025 04:23pm • Stocks slumped on Wall Street after another turbulent day of trading. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% Thursday after erasing a morning gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.5%. Bank stocks led the way lower on worries about loans they’ve made. Zions Banc Average long-term US mortgage rate slips to 6.27%, nearing a low for 2025 10/16/2025 01:54pm • The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage declined again this week, easing to just above its lowest level this year. The average long-term mortgage rate slipped to 6.27% from 6.3% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.44%. The latest dip brings Colleges are fighting to prove their return on investment 10/16/2025 09:52am • WASHINGTON (AP) — For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher education has plumm Injury-hit Barcelona visits Girona one week before clasico 10/16/2025 08:21am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona lost more players to injuries including striker Robert Lewandowski and playmaker Dani Olmo during the international break ahead of visiting Girona in La Liga on Saturday. Kylian Mbappé is also doubtful for Real Madrid’s game against Getafe on Sunday after he mi Liverpool-Man United: Doubts hang over league champion and pressure still on Amorim 10/16/2025 05:55am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The first doubts are beginning to emerge about Liverpool's Premier League title defense on the back of three straight losses. Manchester United seems to be never more than one loss away from another crisis. That is the backdrop to the latest clash of English soccer's fie Exciting Strasbourg youngsters face PSG test in Ligue 1 10/16/2025 05:00am • PARIS (AP) — Ligue 1 leader Paris Saint-Germain hosts third-placed Strasbourg on Friday with just one point separating them. While PSG's position at the top is no surprise, Strasbourg — owned by Chelsea’s parent company BlueCo since 2023 — is exceeding expectations. The team features homegro In posthumous memoir, Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre lashes out against those she says abused her 10/16/2025 12:07am • NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre offers an expanded account but few new revelations about her longstanding claims to have been sexually trafficked by the late financier to billionaires, politicians and Britain’s Prince Andrew. Titled “N A New Federal Law Means You Might Need Private Student Loans Next Year. Get Prepared Now. 10/15/2025 08:00pm • If you're a prospective graduate student or parent of a future college student, you may soon find yourself in need of an additional -- and perhaps unexpected -- source of financing: a private student loan. Major changes to the federal student loan program go into effect on July 1, 2026, and they inc