Новости за 08.08.2024

GRETCHEN REYNOLDS The Washington Post SAINT-DENIS, France — A long dry spell for U.S. artistic swimming ended with a splash Wednesday night, when the Americans took the silver medal at the Paris Olympics, finishing behind a dominant Chinese team and just ahead of Spain. The U.S. team — with Calgary’s Jaime Czarkowski as a centrepiece […]

Special counsel David Weiss' office accused Biden of working for a Romanian oligarch, in a court filing in tax case

On Monday (Aug. 5), the platform powering 24-7 trading for brokers like Robinhood went offline. The platform, Blue Ocean, is the infrastructure provider responsible for executing stock trades between traditional market off hours, those falling between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. (ET), and it was unable to effectively handle the surge in activity during the […]

1. Stock Market News, Aug. 7, 2024: S&P 500 Drops With Investors on Edge After Global Selloff  The Wall Street Journal
2. CNBC Daily Open: Wall Street rebound fizzles out  CNBC
3. Stocks close lower as Wall Street struggles to stage a comeback  CNN
4. Why stocks tumbled today  TheStreet
5. Nasdaq ends down 1% as tech shares fall; Treasury auction weak  Reuters.com

Four workers at a Milwaukee hotel are facing murder charges in the June death of D'Vontaye Mitchell, a Black man. According to court documents, employees held Mitchell on his stomach for eight to nine minutes even as he repeatedly shouted for help. Roxana Saberi has more.

In an interview with CBS News' Robert Costa, President Biden said he is "not confident" there will be a peaceful transfer of power if former President Donald Trump were to lose the upcoming general election. The full interview will air on "CBS News Sunday Morning" on Sunday, Aug. 11.

Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked his Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani without explanation on Wednesday and replaced him with social affairs minister Kamel Madouri, his office said in a statement.

Forensic authorities in the Dominican Republic are working to identify the remains of at least 14 mostly decomposed bodies found on an abandoned vessel 10 nautical miles of its northern coast

One day after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, the two spent Wednesday campaigning in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan. At one point, they nearly crossed paths with their opponent, Sen. JD Vance, on a tarmac in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Nancy Cordes reports.

Three scheduled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria, were canceled following the Wednesday arrests of two men with possible ties to ISIS who authorities said were planning some kind of attack in Vienna. Chris Livesay has the latest.

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took the stage at Detroit Metro Airport on Wednesday at the latest rally for Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). And she laid into former President Donald Trump, scorching his record and stressing he can't be trusted with the future of the country.

Australia wins four golds in five days to make this our greatest-ever Olympics. © International Olympic Committee

KUALA LUMPUR: Property developers will have to work smarter and harder to make their projects successful amid the new requirement that housing projects must have at least one block for low-income groups, an industry specialist said.

TULSA, Oklahoma, EE.UU. (AP) — Un perro que mordía una batería de iones de litio desató un incendio en una casa del estado de Oklahoma, y el video del momento en que comienzan a salir chispas fue usado por un departamento de bomberos para mostrar los peligros potenciales de esas baterías.

Federal judge rules it's an illegal monopoly – and it's about time