General Motors (GM) on Tuesday reported that its total U.S. auto sales saw a slight rebound in the second quarter. But the carmaker’s EV sales rocketed, in a possible sign that the anticipated ramp in production of newer electric vehicles is finally here. Ford Motor (F), a leader in pickup trucks alongside GM, will be […]
To paraphrase Jan Brady of the Brady Bunch, lately it’s been “Newsom, Newsom, Newsom” all day long. He’s been at the Vatican for a climate summit, and in Alpharetta, Georgia, for a televised debate with Florida governor Ron DeSantis. He’s all over the TV, actually – on Fox News and MSNBC, and in advertisements airing […]
President Joe Biden opened the debate with a raspy voice and disjointed, rambling answers, reigniting Democratic concerns about his age and ability to take on Donald Trump. Many of the president’s answers were hard to follow. At one point, seemingly losing his train of thought, Biden said “we finally beat Medicare,” misspeaking about his own […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.Spencer Platt/Getty Images US stocks finished the week higher even as the AI trade showed signs of exhaustion. The Dow Jones led with a 1.5% gain this week, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were up about 0.5%. Some economists are calling on the […]
This is a developing story. ABC4 will update this post with more information as it becomes available. UTAH COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — Searches are underway after a hiker stumbled upon a phone that had recorded a woman drifting away in a river. The hiker was in the Dry Creek Canyon area of the Horsetail Falls. […]
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected Rudy Giuliani‘s attempt to appeal a $148 million defamation judgment won by former Georgia election workers, saying Donald Trump‘s former lawyer should focus on his own stalled bankruptcy case. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane agreed with creditors, including defamed election workers […]
US stocks lost steam in mid-morning trading on Friday after consumer sentiment hit a six-month low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), which is eyeing its eighth straight win, clung to gains of roughly 0.2%, with the benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) hovering above the flatline on the heels of closing above 5,200 for the first […]
In a village of eastern Poland, Paweł Małkowicz organized a metal-detecting rally. Before the event, Małkowicz did a preliminary search and left some extra metal items for participants to discover. But one participant found something unexpected — and surprisingly ancient. Krzysztof Gajos attended the metal-detecting rally in Matcze last August, the Lublin Provincial Conservator of […]
An amateur paleontology enthusiast living in France made a life-changing discovery while walking his dog two years ago, when he stumbled upon the bones of what would turn out to be a nearly intact, 70 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton. Damien Boschetto, now 25, had been walking his dog Muffin in a wooded area of Montouliers in southern […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that Israeli forces had killed over 25,000 women and children in Gaza — but the Pentagon walked back his remark, saying Austin was referring to Palestinian health officials’ count of all Palestinians killed since Oct. 7. Austin’s comment came the same day Palestinian health officials said the death […]
A metal detectorist in Poland searched the forest floor for military artifacts from World War I or World War II. He swept the device above the ground, working his way through the trees. Eventually, he decided to call it a day. As Piotr Gorlach walked to his car, a final beep from his metal detector […]
Buried in a rocky riverbed in northern Italy sat a forgotten ancient artifact. The artifact certainly wasn’t intended to be forgotten. It was too big and ostentatious for that. But the waterway and the passing centuries had prevailed over the ancient stone. Not anymore. Ervino Silvestri spotted the ancient artifact in the gravel of the […]