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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 Panthers name No. 1 pick Bryce Young team's Week 1 starting QB vs. Falcons 07/26/2023 04:18pm • SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) ��� The Carolina Panthers have their QB1. Coach Frank Reich wasted no time naming rookie Bryce Young, the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft, the team���s starting quarterback for the Sept. 10 opener against the Atlanta Falcons. ���When we decided to pick Bryce we imagined an Design for Las Vegas Strip mass shooting memorial features a garden path and 58 beams of light 07/26/2023 04:15pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Fifty-eight towering, candlelike beams will cast a blanket of warm light on visitors in the design concept chosen Wednesday at an emotional meeting of a committee tasked with creating a permanent memorial at the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The numb 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 High school student who sat in Pence���s chair during Capitol riot is sentenced to 1 year in prison 07/26/2023 03:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison. Georgia resident Bruno Joseph Cua was 18 when he attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Who is Bronny James? LeBron's oldest son has carved his own basketball path 07/26/2023 02:42pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� LeBron James and his high school sweetheart, Savannah Brinson, were still teenagers when they welcomed their first child a few months after James won the NBA���s Rookie of the Year award with the Cleveland Cavaliers. They named him LeBron James Jr., but everyone soon called him Heirloom corn in a rainbow of colors makes a comeback in Mexico, where white corn has long been king 07/26/2023 02:30pm • IXTENCO, Mexico (AP) ��� On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he���s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties ��� running from deep red to pale pink, from golden yellow to dar Review: Boots Riley still not sorry to bother you in absurdist comedy 'I'm a Virgo' on Amazon Prime 07/26/2023 01:54pm • Are you looking for something fresh to watch after your "Barbenheimer" double feature of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer?" Amazon Prime recently dropped all seven episodes of "I'm a Virgo," proving that Boots Riley ("Sorry to Bother You") is one of the wildest, most creative filmmakers today when i UK prime minister urged to speed up compensation for infected blood scandal victims 07/26/2023 01:46pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday he was committed to paying out compensation swiftly to thousands of people affected by the country's infected blood scandal, which saw more than 2,000 patients die after contracting HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood Tennessee educators file lawsuit challenging law limiting school lessons on race, sex and bias 07/26/2023 01:26pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A school field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum was replaced with a trip to a baseball game. A choir director was terrified of teaching the history behind spirituals sung by enslaved people. A teacher spent months in administrative proceedings over objections to sta Movie Review: Baby���s first horror? Disney���s ���Haunted Mansion��� conjures up a story about grief 07/26/2023 12:02pm • LaKeith Stanfield is disarmingly good as a grief-stricken astrophysicist barely scraping by in New Orleans, and increasingly jaded about the spirit-crazed tourists and mythologies of the city he calls home. Unfortunately, though, this character and performance is housed in ��� Haunted Mansion,��� Di Nature, history and imagination infuse new wallpapers that help a room tell a story 07/26/2023 11:51am • In the Emmy-nominated opening credits of HBO���s ���White Lotus,��� wallpaper-like images told a story: The tropical prints started off innocuously enough, but then turned ominous. Fruit started rotting, fish got tangled in seaweed, and a sense of foreboding set the whole premise of an exotic paradi Movie Review: Horror flick 'Talk to Me' is a hand-some high-five for twin Australian filmmakers 07/26/2023 11:04am • You've got to hand it to the Philippou brothers. They've taken an old horror cliche ��� a severed hand ��� and made something worth, well, applauding. ���Talk to Me,��� which hits theaters this Friday, is a stylish, well-crafted piece of filmmaking that marks the auspicious arrival of twin Australia CME: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 07/26/2023 07:07am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� CHICAGO (AP) ��� CME Group Inc. (CME) on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $777.6 million. The Chicago-based company said it had profit of $2.14 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $2.30 per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The Residents speak out on Montgomery County road safety plan 07/26/2023 05:25am • From "walking school buses" to better sidewalk upkeep, Montgomery County, Maryland's Pedestrian Master Plan has more than 100 recommendations with the goal of making it safer and more pleasant for those on foot or bike to get where they're going. On Tuesday, residents got their chance to tell the