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Stan Choe, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. stocks are drifting just below Tuesday’s all-time high as ongoing trade talks between the US and China wait for what happens. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in afternoon trading as consultations took place between the two largest economies in the world on the second day. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 73 points (0.2%) as of 1:54pm east time, with the Nasdaq Composite rising 0.3%. Stock prices went up two months before President Donald Trump shocked financial markets with his stiff, widespread tariff announcements, after falling about 20% above…

A lot of stimulation is being made at Goofycoll, Epcot’s new limited-time activity area, part of Gausch, the Churkid Summer Push at Walt Disney World. The Goofycore has heavy vision and sound, but thankfully the smell inside the communication hall is light. The theme park’s multipurpose space encourages the event’s, well, a bit of a goofy name. The activity begins at the ground level with a carpet that doubles as a curvilinear track on the dance floor and a huge game board. Think about candy land. In the center of the room is a vibrantly colored DJ booth (aka Goofy’s…

Michelle Chapman, AP Business Writer Disney pays Comcast’s NBCuniversal nearly $439 million on its Hulu interest, bringing full control of its streaming services. This move closes the assessment process that has been dragged over for several years. Disney said in November 2023 it had acquired a 33% stake in Hulu from Comcast for at least $8.6 billion. That amount reflects the $27.5 billion Hulu’s guaranteed floor value, according to regulatory filings. Disney has been running Hulu since 2019, and Comcast has given Disney authority and has become a virtually quiet partner. Hulu began in 2007 and quickly evolved as a…

Perhaps you know that Florida GOP politicians have a destructive ball in the state’s university system. And the story is that they are on a noble crusade to drive away evil.Scott Maxwell (Provided)But if you believe that is the only goal here, you are being fooled. This is not about politicians chasing liberal doctrines as much as liberal doctrines pursue taxes.They turned the university system into a political plunder system. There, politicians with no experience in higher education can get their own advantages.It has been going on for a while, but over the past week the glyft has been fully…

A man convicted of raping and murdering a woman 30 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday after luring her out of a Florida supermarket parking lot.Anthony Wainwright, 54, is due to receive a fatal injection at the Florida State Jail near Stark. He was convicted in April 1994 of murdering 23-year-old Carmen Gayhart, the mother of two young children, in Lake City.Wainwright will be the sixth person in Florida this year. The state executed six people in 2023, but last year only one execution was carried out. Four executions are scheduled for nationwide this week, with another execution…

Paul Wiseman, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s trade war is expected to cut economic growth in the US and around the world this year, the World Bank predicted Tuesday. Without naming and mentioning Trump, citing “a significant rise in trade barriers,” the 189 country lender predicted that the world’s largest U.S. economy would increase half a second (1.4%) this year, just like in 2024 (2.8%). The bank also snatched 0.4 percent points from forecasts for global growth this year. Currently, the global economy is expected to expand by just 2.3% in 2025, starting from 2.8% in…

The Michelin star chef of South Florida, who was charged with violent attacks on a woman last week, faces new charges after police said they left voicemail from prison to seek bond payments.Jacob Bickelhaupt, 41, co-founder of West Palm Beach stove, was charged with two more counts of tampering with an eyewitness, a first-degree felony, and one count of domestic violence injunction with two more counts of tampering with an eyewitness, two or more previous convictions, and a third-degree felony, according to court records. He was previously arrested for aggravated battery charge, causing physical harm and disability and battery causing…

The government estimates that supremely supreme the water sector could cost more than £220 billion. A financial overhaul of Thames water by a group of US and UK creditors has been proposed, backed by broader debates on foreign ownership and public accountability in the water sector.Major institutional investors, including BlackRock, Aberdeen and Elliott Management, are planning to restructure Thames Water’s £17 billion debt. This includes injecting £3 billion of new stock and £2 billion of additional funds to reduce hundreds of millions of pounds of existing debt.”The plan is trying to break away from past patterns by providing customer priorities…

Associated Press Business Writer Michelle Chapman The Union of Hollywood video game performers has reached tentative agreements with several video game companies that could end a nearly one-year strike related to the use of artificial intelligence. Members of The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists were struck in July 2024 after negotiations with the gaming giant stopped artificial intelligence protection. SAG-AFTRA said the unregulated use of AI has posed a “equal or even greater threat” to performers in the video game industry than film and television, as the ability to easily and cheaply create compelling digital replicas…

The report also found that UK statutory paternal salaries may be “completely out of the quilter for living expenses” and do not respond to inflation.According to a report by the Women and Equality Commission (WEC), the UK has “one of the worst vacation offers in developed countries.”A WEC report on father and shared parental leave, released Tuesday, added that up to two weeks of father leave is “a step off the way most couples want to share parenting responsibilities” and “contains outdated gender stereotypes about care.”It also revealed that the salary of legal fathers in the UK is “completely out…