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Stancho AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — US stocks hang to an all-time high on Wednesday as financial markets hold their breath following a two-day big day backed by hope that the Israeli-Iran war will not disrupt the global oil trend. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in early trading, just 0.7% below its all-time high. The Dow Jones industrial average had not changed substantially as of 9:35am, as of 9:35am, with the Nasdaq Composite being 0.6% higher. The oil market, the heart of most of this week’s action, has stabilized oil prices after plunging at around $10 per…

Mixed messages in Iran’s bombing | June 23rdIt’s never againI read a disappointing article on the Times homepage about the White House’s confused statement about the recent bombing of Iran. On the one hand, I am sure there is no interest in a change of government. Meanwhile, the president himself says it’s okay to remove the Iranian government. Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense argues that it’s not about that at all. It’s hard to know if they really don’t know what they’re doing or if they think the rest of us can’t see through this. After decades of costly misfortunes…

Florida urged the state Supreme Court to immediately suspend Coral Gables’ attorney Jay Lewis Farrow, accusing him of “causing major public harm” in multiple complaints filed by clients who claimed he was not at work.The Florida emergency suspension petition also accused Farrow of lying to the Supreme Court last year about a “consensus” with Barr while his lawyer pursued more than 12 misconduct complaints from his client.A petition filed last Wednesday states that Farrow “engages in blatantly abusive litigation tactics. He failed to comply with court orders. He filed lawsuits from clients who did not claim or produced minimal work…

Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) — India, Poland and Hungary launched their first astronauts on Wednesday for more than 40 years, sending them on civilian flights to the International Space Station. The three countries shared a two-week mission tab. Axiom Space, a Houston company that arranged the contract, has priced tickets at over $65 million per customer. SpaceX’s Falcon Rocket exploded from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center two weeks late due to concerns about a leak at the space station. The top capsules weren’t alive when the country’s first astronauts set up, not just three newcomers heading into space – Peggy Whitson,…

By Bernard Condon Federal road safety regulators are considering suspected issues testing a test of “Robotakis” self-driving in Texas after video suddenly brakes, passes through intersections from lanes, or drives on the wrong side of the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it had requested information from Tesla about the apparent error. Many other videos show that Robotaxis is driving perfectly, but if regulators find a major issue, it is likely that they will question Musk’s repeated statement that Robotaxis is safe, and his assertion that Tesla will rule the future where almost every car on the…

Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press McDonald’s US menu will soon have a donut-sized hole. McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme said Tuesday that they had ended their partnership on July 2, more than a year after it was announced. Krispy Kreme said the demand for donuts at McDonald’s is not strong enough to recover the costs. Chicago-based McDonald’s announced that after a successful pilot in Kentucky in March 2024, it will begin selling three types of Krispy Kreme doughnuts at participating locations. Donuts were sold individually or in boxes of six people. The companies have planned a phased rollout to take McDonald’s nationwide…

Matt O’Brien In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge ruled that humanity, an AI company, did not break the law by training chatbot clauds on millions of copyrighted books. However, the company is still on the hook and must go to court for how it obtained these books by downloading them from the online “Shadow Library” of pirated copies. San Francisco US District Judge William Alsp said in a ruling filed late Monday that it is a “typical transformation” as AI systems distill from thousands of written works, allowing them to create their own texts…

Josh Funk Jennifer Homendy’s National Road Safety Board Chairman said Tuesday that the heroic actions of the crew on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 ensured that everyone survived the horrifying incident last year when the door plug panel jumped off the plane shortly after takeoff in January 2024. But Homendy said if Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration did enough to ensure the safety of the Boeing 737 Max plane, “the crew didn’t have to be heroes because this accident would never happen.” She said the last 17 months of investigations have discovered a bigger problem than the revelation that the…

TALHASSEE – Following federal blessings, the DeSantis administration began construction of immigration detention centers on the Air Strip deep in the Everglades, which became obsessed with the sweep of President Donald Trump’s deportation, and will be housed in trailers and “heavy-duty” tents on Summer Dog Day.State law enforcement officials plan to open a 1,000-bed facility within days, commanding environmentally sensitive land owned by Miami-Dade County and began guiding them by trucks carrying portable toilets and industrial generators. Private emergency management companies were also on the scene to help set up what state officials call “crocodile alcatraz.”The construction of the facility,…

TALHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – A major issue coming out of last year’s hurricane was fragments. Helen’s furniture and piles of garbage lined up the streets of Florida, and Hurricane Milton tumbled down before people could prepare. A few months later, lawmakers returned to Tallahassee, taking the debris mixed chaos as a wake-up call, turning strict lessons from Hurricane Helen and Milton into law, hoping to see how debris would be handled before, during or after the storm.”You always have a level of frustration because there is a pile of debris in front of your house, so you want to get…