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ALIQUIPPA, Pa. (AP) — The phone calls, all asking the same question, started coming long before the lights at “The Pit” flickered on for the first time this fall. “When will the senior citizen passes be available?” Aliquippa High athletic director Jennifer Damico’s office heard more than once as the countdown to the latest season of Quips football inched forward. At the school perched atop a hill about 30 minutes […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 10(Reuters) – U.S. existing home sales dropped to a 14-month low in August as rising mortgage rates continued to suppress demand. Home sales fell 2.0% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.98 million units, the lowest level since June 2025, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast home resales easing to a rate of 3.98 million units. Existing […]

Sept 10 (Reuters) – The major U.S. stock indexes opened lower on Thursday after producer prices data for August raised expectations of an interest rate hike this month, while an escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed oil prices above $100 a barrel. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 88.8 points, or 0.17%, at the open to 52291.85. The S&P 500 fell 41.6 points, or 0.55%, at the open to 7594.74​, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 232.3 points, or 0.88%, to 26021.052 at the opening bell.  […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)  — A federal judge has allowed Missouri’s top court to proceed with a contempt hearing Thursday for Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, escalating a constitutional showdown over which congressional districts will be used in the November election. The dispute centers on a new congressional map supported by President Donald Trump and Missouri Republicans. The map is designed to strengthen the state’s Republican congressional delegation, potentially […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank raised interest rates Thursday to cool inflation that is being fed by high oil prices from the Iran war. The decision was supported by a stronger-than-expected economy that suggests businesses can weather the higher borrowing costs. The central bank for the 21 EU member countries that use the euro currency raised its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.50% at […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of people demonstrated outside Israel’s embassy in Bangkok on Thursday to demand foreigners show more respect for Thailand’s laws and culture as public discontent over bad behavior by visitors has increasingly focused on Israeli tourists. “The era of gentle diplomatic pleasantries and calculated silence, which has been misinterpreted as tacit consent, has come to an end,” protest leader Sondhi Limthongkul, a media mogul and political activist, […]

President Donald Trump has pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation. Trump also said Wednesday that oil prices that have surged because of the Iran war likely […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has allowed Missouri’s top court to proceed with a contempt hearing Thursday for Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in a tense and twisting legal battle over whether new congressional districts supported by President Donald Trump can be used in the November election. Missouri’s top court previously ordered Hoskins not to use a Trump-backed map in the general election. But U.S. District […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Working to keep the majority in Congress, Republicans at the midterm convention in Dallas are showcasing their chief legislative accomplishment — the sweeping package of tax breaks, social service cuts and immigration enforcement that President Donald Trump signed into law. A year on, what’s known as the One Big Beautiful Bill — or, the “Big Ugly Bill,” as Democrats call it — has produced mixed results. Millions […]