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Asian stocks follow Wall St down before US inflation update 11/09/2022 11:06pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Thursday ahead of a U.S. inflation update that will likely influence Federal Reserve plans for more interest rate hikes after elections left control of Congress uncertain. Hong Kong's market benchmark fell by more than 2%. Shanghai, No. 2 Stanford routs Cal State Northridge 11/09/2022 11:03pm • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ��� With NBA superstar Stephen Curry in the house, Hannah Jump hit five 3-pointers and scored 17 points in 17 minutes, and No. 2 Stanford ran away from Cal State Northridge for a 104-40 win on Wednesday night. Curry and wife Ayesha sat on the baseline with the parents of Stanf After big win, Noem looks to cut tax, safeguard abortion ban 11/09/2022 09:19pm • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ��� South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem took the stage late Tuesday after a hearty reelection win in her deep red state, speaking behind a sign that captured her ambition for staying in the national spotlight: ���America's governor.��� The Republican governor has sprung to national Facebook parent Meta cuts 11,000 jobs, 13% of workforce 11/09/2022 07:55pm • Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday. The job cuts come just a week after widespread layoffs at Twitter under its new owner, bill Ex-Yale coach gets 5 months in admissions bribery scandal 11/09/2022 06:37pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The former Yale University women's soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the scheme's mastermind was sentenced Wednesday to five months in prison. Rudy Meredith, head coach at Ya Midterms full of firsts for female, Black, LGBTQ candidates 11/09/2022 05:57pm • A Massachusetts Democrat is the country���s first openly lesbian candidate to be elected to the office of governor. In Maryland, voters elected the state's first Black governor. Vermont will finally send a woman to Congress, after being the only state never to have had female representation in the H Abortion supporters win in conservative, liberal states 11/09/2022 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot Tuesday, as voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and Vermont and dealt a defeat to an anti-abortion measure in deep-red Kentucky. In al In a first, doctors treat fatal genetic disease before birth 11/09/2022 05:12pm • A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that caused the deaths of two of her sisters. Ayla Bashir, a 16-month-old from Ottawa, Ontario, is the first child treated as fetus for Pompe disease, an inhe Wisconsin���s Johnson beats Barnes; key Senate seat stays GOP 11/09/2022 05:01pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson defeated Democrat Mandela Barnes in the midterm elections, keeping a seat in GOP hands while turning back Barnes��� attempt to make history as Wisconsin���s first Black senator. The win for Johnson, one of former President Donald Trump���s bigg Justices seem to favor most of Native child welfare law 11/09/2022 05:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court appeared likely Wednesday to leave in place most of a federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The justices heard more than three hours of arguments in a broad challenge to the Indi Corps finds no radioactive contamination at Missouri school 11/09/2022 04:14pm • FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) ��� Testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found no radioactive contamination at a Missouri school that was shut down last month amid fears that nuclear material from a contaminated creek nearby had made its way into the school, Corps officials said Wednesday. Teams from th Review: Ferrell, Reynolds get ���Spirited��� in holiday musical 11/09/2022 03:42pm • The devil works in public relations in ��� Spirited,��� a new spin on ���A Christmas Carol��� starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. With songs by ���The Greatest Showman��� duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, big ensemble dance numbers choreographed by Chloe Arnold and special effects galore, ���Spir Rosendale wins reelection in Montana US House race 11/09/2022 03:01pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) ��� Montana Republican Matt Rosendale easily won a second term in the U.S. House as he fended off a pair of challengers in a newly drawn district in the east but it was still too early Wednesday to call a second House race featuring President Donald Trump���s former interior sec Car hits and kills Gaithersburg couple on their way to vote 11/09/2022 02:21pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland, couple was hit and killed on Election Day as they walked to their polling site at a local elementary school.�� At around 7:20 a.m., just after polls opened in Montgomery County,��70-year-old Ana Margarita Ortiz and her husband, 65-year-old Miguel Antonio Ortiz, were crossi More big donors supporting - and discussing - mental health 11/09/2022 02:04pm • When the financier Jeff Yabuki and his wife, Gail, announced last year they would give $20 million to the Children���s Wisconsin health system, they become one of a growing number of wealthy donors awarding large contributions to programs that focus on mental health. They also became one of many phi