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NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes are tiptoeing around their record levels on Tuesday as an incredibly busy week for Wall Street picks up momentum. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in morning trading after setting an all-time high in six straight days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 8 points, or less than … Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and … Read more

NEW YORK — As a child, Heidi Barley watched her family pay for groceries with food stamps. As a college student, she dropped out because she couldn’t afford tuition. In her twenties, already scraping by, she was forced to take a pay cut that shrunk her salary to just $34,000 a year. But this summer, … Read more

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas police say the killer of a married couple who had been hiking the remote Devil’s Den State Park with their young daughters was likely injured during the weekend attack and released a sketch drawing of a man wanted for questioning. The composite sketch, which was released Monday night and depicts … Read more

Iona strengthens to Category 3 hurricane in central Pacific off southern Hawaii Source link

HONOLULU — Iona strengthened to a Category 3 hurricane several hundred miles south-southeast of Hawaii, but poses no threat to the islands, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday. Iona is one of two major weather systems in the central Pacific Ocean. In its latest advisory, the Miami-based center said Iona was about 790 miles … Read more

Two children attending youth sailing camp were killed when their boat was hit by a barge near Miami, officials say Source link

Tropical Storm Keli forms and is second cyclone now in central Pacific Ocean, forecasters say Source link

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s Democratic Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski doesn’t plan to run for governor or for a full term in her current position, but she is considering running for lieutenant governor next year, an adviser said Monday. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday that he won’t seek a third term in the battleground … Read more

Matthew Kolakowski was shopping for fishing gear and snacks with his daughter at a Michigan Walmart over the weekend when he heard an employee yelling “he’s got a knife” followed by sounds of screaming. Then he saw a man rushing toward the checkout counter. “All of a sudden I see him pop up and I … Read more