SEATTLE - Coach Mike Macdonald has faith the Seattle Seahawks are going to get their ground game going. The Seahawks have lost four of five after a 3-0 start and hope to shift the season back in their favor on Sunday at home against their NFC West rival, the Los...
Where Have the Top Transfers in College Basketball Landed?
CHICAGO - After Dusty May left Florida Atlantic to take over Michigan's program, plenty of the top remaining players from the Owls' 2023 Final Four team departed as well. But they didn't all follow their former coach to Ann Arbor. They scattered to various programs. Florida Atlantic's top four scorers...
Stock Market Today: Amazon’s Surge Leads a Rally on Wall Street
NEW YORK — A surge for Amazon is leading a rally for U.S. stock indexes on Friday, while a surprisingly weak jobs report marred by some unusual occurrences is cementing bets on Wall Street for another cut to interest rates next week. Amazon and Oil Companies Boost Market The S&P...
49ers Seek to Shake off the Super Bowl Hangover in the Second Half of the Season
SANTA CLARA — As much as the San Francisco 49ers tried to downplay the curse of the Super Bowl loser leading up to this season, the first half of 2024 has looked just like that. A summer dominated by contract disputes. A string of injuries that put many of last...
Dodgers Celebrate World Series Win, Look to Repeat With Ohtani’s Return to Pitching in 2025
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers' first game of the season in South Korea was overshadowed afterward by Shohei Ohtani's interpreter hinting at his stealing from the Japanese superstar. Their last postgame was a beer and champagne-fueled celebration of the franchise's eighth World Series title. In between came a...
Stock Market Today: Microsoft, Meta and the Burden of High Expectations Drag Wall Street Lower
NEW YORK — Wall Street is feeling the downside of high expectations on Thursday, as Microsoft and Meta Platforms drag U.S. stock indexes lower despite delivering strong profits for the summer. The S&P 500 was down 1.6% in afternoon trading and on track for its worst day in nearly eight...
Waves of Rocket Fire From Lebanon Hit Israel, Killing 7 in Deadliest Strikes Since Israeli Invasion
TEL AVIV — Rocket barrages fired from Lebanon killed seven people in northern Israel on Thursday, authorities said, hitting agricultural areas along the border and near the city of Haifa in back-to-back attacks that represented the deadliest spate of strikes from Lebanon since the Israeli military invaded the country earlier...
US Imposes Sanctions on Top Members of the Armed Wing of a Mexican Fentanyl-Trafficking Cartel
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico. Five Mexican citizens and two companies linked to La Linea, a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking organization that smuggles fentanyl and...
Inflation Gauge Closely Watched by the Fed Falls to Lowest Level Since Early 2021
WASHINGTON — As a presidential race profoundly shaped by Americans' frustration with high prices nears its end, the government said Thursday that an inflation gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve has dropped to near pre-pandemic levels. The Commerce Department reported that prices rose just 2.1% in September from a...
Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Post Malone Topped Country in 2024. How Will Grammys Respond?
NEW YORK — Country music has become a dominant force, bleeding into pop music's mainstream. And artists who might not have been previously associated with the genre — like Beyoncé and Post Malone — have recently released country albums. They've been popular, but their prospects at the Grammys remain uncertain....