By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA Stocks edged higher in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday, putting major indexes on track to extend their weekly gains. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% as of 2 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 142 points, or 0.4%, to 35,549 and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Several…
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By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kurt Groszhans set out from North Dakota for Ukraine in 2017, he was eager to connect with his family’s ancestral homeland and to farm the rich, black soil for which the country is known. But his farming venture with a law professor who’s now a high-ranking Ukrainian government…
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Boston University researchers, looking at the very low rates of COVID-19 spread from pregnant mother to baby, have discovered how the placenta may be blocking virus transmission to babies during pregnancy. The new study may give scientists clues about blocking COVID infections in other patients. The research zeroes in on ACE-2, the receptor that allows…
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One of the strengths of our constitutional republic is everyone gets their day in court – even those whose actions could have undermined the foundations of democracy. So it goes for former Chapman University law professor John Eastman, the Donald Trump ally who crafted a chilling legal blueprint for overturning the 2020 presidential election. It’s…
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By SETH BORENSTEIN Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is. A large iceberg broke off the deteriorating Thwaites glacier and, along with sea ice, it is blocking two research ships with dozens of scientists from examining…
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army said Wednesday it will immediately begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, putting more than 3,300 service members at risk of being thrown out soon. The Army’s announcement makes it the final military service to lay out its discharge policy for…
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Let’s hope Steve Ross throws in the towel as easily as he allegedly asked his coach to do. That’s the best way out of the latest and messiest fiasco of his Miami Dolphins ownership. Ross can still run Hard Rock Stadium, where he’s made buckets of money on tennis, a grass company and soon a…
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When comedian J.B. Smoove moved to Los Angeles to do standup, he knew exactly where he wanted to play: Phat Tuesdays, a weekly comedy showcase founded by Guy Torry in 1995 at the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip. That was a gig you did not want to miss, even if you were, like Smoove,…
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Most people would likely scurry away at the sight of a shark fin sticking out of the water, but a trio of paddlers on a recent day instead got an up-close, hour-long encounter with a curious blue shark off Laguna Beach. The paddlers on Friday, Jan. 28, noticed a bait ball where birds were feeding…
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a stroke and being hospitalized last week, when he began to experience dizziness and fatigue, according to his chief of staff. The 49-year-old Democrat checked himself into a hospital in Santa Fe…
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