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Stock market today: Wall Street closes its best week of the year with some more gains 08/16/2024 04:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street coasted to the close of its best week since November, as U.S. stocks drifted a bit higher Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% for a seventh straight gain and pulled back within 2% of its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 96 points, or Ex-University of Florida president gave former Senate staffers large raises, report finds 08/16/2024 04:15pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Spending by recently resigned University of Florida President Ben Sasse is coming under scrutiny after the student-run newspaper found that he awarded secretive consulting contracts and gave high-paying jobs to former members of his U.S. Senate staff and Republican allies Kihn of rock and roll: Greg Kihn of '80s 'Jeopardy' song fame dies at 75 08/16/2024 04:13pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Greg Kihn, a rock and roll musician best known for his '80s hit songs “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song,” has died. He was 75. Kihn died of Alzheimer’s disease Tuesday, his management team said in a statement posted to Kihn's website. Born July 10, 1949, in Baltimore Round 2 of US Rep. Gaetz vs. former Speaker McCarthy plays out in Florida GOP primary 08/16/2024 03:51pm • PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — The Republican primary for Florida’s 1st Congressional district is like a rematch between Rep. Matt Gaetz and the man he toppled, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. No, McCarthy isn't on the ballot. But a political committee he controls has spent about $3 million attacki Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race 08/16/2024 03:48pm • Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located within one mile of F Belarus' authoritarian leader pardons 30 out of some 1,400 political prisoners 08/16/2024 03:31pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 30 prisoners convicted for taking part in protests, the presidential office said Friday. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader-in-exile, welcomed the move but vowed to keep fighting unti Dallas Cowboys rookie Tyler Guyton looking to get up to speed at left tackle 08/16/2024 03:25pm • OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — There's no doubt Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Tyler Guyton has the attributes to be a great player. The first-round NFL draft pick is a physical marvel. Offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer said Guyton has the mentality to anchor an offensive line. And with his main The collapse of an iconic arch in Utah has some wondering if other famous arches are also at risk 08/16/2024 03:22pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A common line of questions has emerged from visitors to Utah's Arches National Park in the week since an iconic rock arch at Lake Powell known as the “Toilet Bowl” collapsed. Are these arches also at risk of falling soon? What are you doing to prevent their collapse? The Harvard and graduate students settle sexual harassment lawsuit 08/16/2024 01:43pm • BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University and three graduate students have settled a federal lawsuit accusing the Ivy League school of ignoring complaints of sexual harassment by a renowned professor and allowing him to intimidate students by threatening to hinder their careers. The suit filed in Boston i Biden signs order to establish 1908 Springfield race riot monument as he looks to burnish legacy 08/16/2024 01:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday designated a national monument at the site of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., a seminal moment in the United States' long and difficult history with racial violence targeting Black people. Biden was joined in the Oval Office by lawmakers Jack Russell, lead singer of band Great White who was onstage during horrific '03 concert fire, dies 08/16/2024 12:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy '80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” and was fronting his band the night 100 people died in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island, has died. He was 63. “Jack is loved and remember Swiss playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri returns to Basel 12 years after leaving childhood club 08/16/2024 12:26pm • BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri returned to Basel on Friday, 12 years after leaving the club where he began his career. Basel announced in a statement titled “Welcome home, Shaq” that Shaqiri had penned a three-year deal. The Swiss club also posted a video on social m Solo show helps Kerbaol become first home rider to win stage in women's Tour de France 08/16/2024 12:00pm • MORTEAU, France (AP) — Cedrine Kerbaol soloed to the biggest victory of her career on Friday as she became the first home rider to win a stage in the three-year history of the women's Tour de France. Kerbaol lifted her arms above her head and made a heart sign with her hands as she crossed the lin How Ferguson elevated the profile of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers 08/16/2024 11:51am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first images out of Ferguson, Missouri surfaced 10 years ago — the bloodied body of a man left for hours in the street beneath white sheets, protesters smashing car windows and looting stores — it didn’t take long for the federal government to see a role for itself. As college football evolves, so does the relationship between players and their CEO-like coaches 08/16/2024 11:29am • Ra'Shaad Samples was a reticent and newly appointed student-assistant, shagging balls at practice with a group of wide receivers who were recently his teammates, when he received one of his first important lessons about coaching. “Ra'Shaad, you have to talk to coach," Samples recalls then-Houston