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Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records after Shanghai's worst drop since early COVID 10/09/2024 05:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks set records Wednesday after the latest wild swerves for Chinese stocks left few ripples in markets worldwide. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% to top the all-time high it had set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 431 points, or 1%, to hit its own record, wh Man City stuns title holder Barcelona in Women's Champions League. Bayern's Harder downs Arsenal 10/09/2024 05:21pm • Title holder Barcelona was beaten 2-0 by Manchester City on Wednesday to start its defense in the Women’s Champions League with a rare loss in the group stage. Man City outplayed the two-time defending champion in the first half, taking a 36th-minute lead when Naomi Layzell was brave at a corner, Officials work to protect IV supplies in Florida after disruptions at North Carolina plant 10/09/2024 05:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are working to move critical hospital supplies out of the path of Hurricane Milton, which is threatening another manufacturer of IV fluids even as hospitals nationwide are still reeling from disruptions caused by flooding at a large factory in North Carolina. Me Language, lack of money and fear are matters of life and death with Milton approaching Florida 10/09/2024 04:29pm • MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don’t speak English, most of them Latin Americans harvesting oranges and tomatoes in the fields along Florida’s I-4 corridor, washing dishes in restaurants, cleaning hotel rooms Sky officials are light on details in discussing their decision to fire Weatherspoon after 1 year 10/09/2024 04:25pm • BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Sky officials were light on specifics Wednesday when discussing their decision to fire former coach Teresa Weatherspoon after one season, saying there was no particular catalyst and that it was simply time to move on from the Naismith Hall of Famer. “First, I wa NFL leading receiver Nico Collins to miss at least 4 games after Texans place him on injured reserve 10/09/2024 04:20pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Nico Collins, the NFL's leading receiver, will miss at least four games after the Houston Texans placed him on injured reserve with a hamstring injury Wednesday. Collins left Houston's 23-20 victory over the Bills on Sunday after scoring on a 67-yard reception late in the first quar CBS News says Trump campaign had 'shifting explanations' for why he snubbed '60 Minutes' 10/09/2024 04:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News said the Trump campaign offered “shifting explanations” for why it backed out of a “60 Minutes” interview special with presidential candidates that aired without him. The network's Scott Pelley appeared on the air Monday night to explain why Republican Donald Trump Vermont college chapel renamed over eugenics link can keep new title, judge says 10/09/2024 03:53pm • A private liberal arts college in Vermont that changed the name of its chapel over ties to eugenics will not be ordered to restore the title, according to a ruling in a lawsuit against the school. Middlebury College announced in 2021 that it had stripped John Mead's name because of his “instigatin Head of international shipping regulator says industry must do more to cut carbon pollution 10/09/2024 03:14pm • HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — For years, the international shipping industry has been criticized for making little progress in reducing the carbon-belching pollution released from the fuels that vessels use in moving most of the cargo that people use every day, such as food, cars and clothing. Now, the Rodgers says allegations that he played a role in Saleh's firing as Jets coach are 'patently false' 10/09/2024 03:12pm • Aaron Rodgers insisted he played no role in the firing of Robert Saleh as the New York Jets coach and called such allegations “patently false.” The star quarterback made his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Wednesday, a day after Jets owner Woody Johnson fired Saleh after the te Yes, voter fraud happens. But it's rare and election offices have safeguards to catch it 10/09/2024 03:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — You’ve heard the horror stories: Someone casting multiple ballots, people voting in the name of dead relatives, mail-in ballots being intercepted. Voter fraud does happen occasionally. When it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. It also gets caught and prosecuted. The nation’ The presidential campaigns have made over 200 visits but speak to just a fraction of American voters 10/09/2024 02:47pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected during a postcard-writing pizza party to help turn out voters there. Leaning against the table are homemade Harris-Walz signs. “We know they’re New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx to meet for WNBA championship 10/09/2024 02:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty are back in the Finals, looking for the first championship in franchise history. They'll have to beat the Minnesota Lynx to do it. The Liberty advanced to the WNBA Finals for the second straight year after knocking off the two-time defending Las Vegas Aces in t For small cities across Alabama with Haitian populations, Springfield is a cautionary tale 10/09/2024 01:09pm • ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) — The transition from the bustling Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to a small Alabama city on the southernmost tip of the Appalachian mountain range was challenging for Sarah Jacques. But over the course of a year, the 22-year-old got used to the quiet and settled in. Jacques got a jo Former Sen. Tim Johnson, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota, dies at 77 10/09/2024 12:12pm • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Former Sen. Tim Johnson, a centrist who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and who was adept at securing federal funding for projects back home during his nearly three decades in Washington, has died. He was 77. Johnson, who was first elected to