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Altice USA, PENN Entertainment rise; Hess, NeoGenomics fall, Thursday, 12/28/2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Thursday: Apple Inc. (AAPL), up 98 cents to $194.13.A federal court temporarily lifted a sales halt on two models of the company’s Apple Watch that are involved in an international patent dispute.Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), up 6 cents to $153.40.The internet retail giant said Amazon Prime Video users will start seeing ads on movies and TV shows starting next month.Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), up $1.30 to $77.41.A judge ruled the Chinese ecommerce giant must face a lawsuit by a U.S. toymaker alleging the sale of counterfeit Squishmallows.Barrick Gold Corp. (GOLD), down 26 cents to $18.21.The gold producer slipped along with prices for the precious metal.Hess Corp. (HES), down $1.33 to $147.25.Energy stocks lagged the broader market as crude oil prices slipped.Altice USA Inc. (ATUS), up 19 cents to $3.24.French businessman Xavier Niel is reportedly interested in buying the Portuguese operation...

Estos son los días festivos y puentes en México para 2024

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

(CNN Español) — Ya sean estudiantes o trabajadores, los mexicanos tienen varios días festivos a lo largo de 2024.A continuación, te dejamos los días de descanso oficiales que los trabajadores tienen en México, según el artículo 74 de la Ley Federal del Trabajo (LFT).Días festivos y puentes en México para 2024Lunes 1 de enero – Festivo de Año Nuevo y el primer puente de 2024.Lunes 5 de febrero – Para conmemorar la promulgación de la Constitución de México de 1917, la LFT designa el primer lunes de febrero como festivo; en esta ocasión, ese lunes cae exactamente en el día de la festividad (5 de febrero). Asimismo, es el segundo puente del año.Lunes 18 de marzo – La LFT marca el tercer lunes de marzo como el festivo para conmemorar el natalicio de Benito Juárez, que tiene su fecha exacta el 21 de marzo; además, es el tercer puente de 2024.Miércoles 1 de mayo – Día del Trabajo.Lunes 16 de septiembre – Día de la Independencia; es el cuarto puente del a...

Boulder police release photos of woman wanted for fraudulent ID use, attempted theft

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Boulder police are seeking a suspect accused of using someone else's identification to withdraw thousands of dollars from their bank account.According to the Boulder Police Department, a woman between 28-35 years old went to a bank and used someone else's ID to try and withdraw $5,000 from their account. 3 wanted in Hilltop home burglaries, nabbing $20K ring and designer clothes She was unsuccessful, according to the department.However, using someone else's legal identification qualifies as identity fraud, and the attempted theft also raised some concerns.Boulder police are seeking this suspect for allegedly attempting to withdraw $5,000 from a bank account using someone else's identification. (Credit: Boulder Police Department)The suspect is described as a white female wearing a pink beanie with a pompom, a sweater and blue jeans, with straight brown or black hair and estimated to be between 28-35 years old, and weighing approximately 130 pounds.Anyone who recog...

Man indicted by federal jury for carjackings, robberies in Denver area

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A 20-year-old was indicted by a federal grand jury for 11 charges, including carjacking and robbery, for crimes in the Denver metro area.Keenan Shane Clodfelter, 20, was indicted on three counts of carjacking, three counts of robbery and five counts of brandishing a firearm while carjacking and conducting a robbery. He is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. Wrong-way driver killed in E-470 crash in Thornton According to the indictment, Clodfelter carjacked a 2013 Toyota Highlander on Oct. 4, and later that day attempted to carjack a Hyundai Genesis, allegedly shooting a victim in the arm during the attempt.On Nov. 20, Clodfelter carjacked a 2010 Toyota Scion TC. The indictment connects Clodfelter to two robberies also on Nov. 20. Those robberies allegedly took place at a 7-Eleven on East Quincy Avenue in Aurora and at Pour Boy Liqour on 20th Avenue in Lakewood.Clodfelter was also accused of a robbery on Nov. 21 at a Circle ...

Victims in SW Miami-Dade helicopter crash identified as father, daughter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

Authorities have identified the victims of a helicopter crash in Southwest Miami-Dade that left one man dead and a woman injured.According to Miami-Dade Police, 71-year-old Clement Zanzuri and his daughter, 27-year-old Jordan Ann Zanzuri, were on board the helicopter when it crashed into a canal Wednesday afternoon near Southwest 184th Avenue and 120th Street.According to investigators, units initially responded to several 911 calls about a helicopter crashing into a canal. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue divers and several tactical units responded to the scene. Jordan was the first to be seen coming out of the water. She later told officials that her father did not resurface.Divers were able to locate Clement and pull him out of the water. Paramedics transported both victims to Jackson South Medical Center by ground. However, Clement would later succumb to his injuries. Jordan remains in stable condition and is expected to survive.Police said the helicopter took off from Fort Myers and was ...

Florida GOP senator Rick Scott’s Naples home swatted

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

Florida Sen. Rick Scott’s home in Naples was swatted Wednesday night, according to Naples Police spokesperson Lt. Bryan McGinn.Scott posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Thursday morning, stating: “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples. These criminals wasted the time & resources of our law enforcement in a sick attempt to terrorize my family.”Swatting is a prank call made to authorities with the express purpose of luring them to a location – usually a home – where they are led to believe a horrific crime has been committed or is in progress. This results in a forceful response from local police or SWAT teams, who have no way of knowing the call is a hoax.McGinn said that police had responded to a phone call on the non-emergency line where an individual said a shooting had occurred. After 15 minutes on the scene, police had determined it was a “swatting event” and that no one was currently at the residence, according to McGinn.“People a...

Inspector General: MBTA Could Not Prove 2017 Contract Was Awarded Fairly

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

Knocking the agency for slipshod record-keeping and potentially running afoul of its own procurement rules, the state’s inspector general said the MBTA could not prove its award of a private police dispatch contract was “free from favoritism.”Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro published a new report Wednesday raising concerns about the way the T handed out a five-year, $4.8 million contract to IXP Corporation in 2017, writing that the public transit agency “could not demonstrate that its solicitation and advertising process was fair and competitive” and that one email exchange in fact should have disqualified the bid altogether.Shapiro’s latest findings build on a report his office released in December 2022 examining the IXP contract, this time zeroing in on the fairness and competitiveness of the procurement process that led to the deal.“Based upon our investigation, significant concerns were raised regarding whether or not the sel...

Inside the Pentagon’s slow effort to clean up decades of PFAS contamination

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

By Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime, KFF Health NewsOscoda, Michigan, has the distinction as the first community where “forever chemicals” were found seeping from a military installation into the surrounding community. Beginning in 2010, state officials and later residents who lived near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base were horrified to learn that the chemicals, collectively called PFAS, had leached into their rivers, lakes, and drinking water.Thirteen years later, the community is still waiting on whatever it will take to clean its water. As a result of dogged activism and pressure from government officials, the Air Force has finally taken initial steps simply to contain the chemicals.Wurtsmith is just one of hundreds of contaminated U.S. military sites. Under congressional pressure, the Defense Department has acknowledged it has a big mess to clean up. It has spent years trying to grasp the scale of the contamination and assess the costs U.S. taxpayers will shoulder to clean it...

Federal judge accepts redrawn Georgia congressional and legislative districts that will favor GOP

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

By JEFF AMY (Associated Press)ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts fixed illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps be redrawn.U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in three separate but similarly worded orders, rejected claims that the new maps didn’t do enough to help Black voters. Jones said he couldn’t interfere with legislative choices, even if Republicans moved to protect their power. The maps were redrawn in a recent special legislative session after Jones in October ruled that a prior set of maps illegally harmed Black voters.The approval of the maps sets the stage for them to be used in 2024’s upcoming elections. They’re likely to keep the same 9-5 Republican majority among Georgia’s 14 congressional seats, while also retaining GOP majorities in the sta...

Companies grew more confident about initial public offerings in 2023, raising recovery hopes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:27 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The signs of life shown by the IPO market, especially in the second half of the year, are giving analysts hope that more companies will be enticed to go public in 2024. Overall, 108 initial public offerings raised proceeds of about $19.4 billion in 2023, according to Renaissance Capital. That’s up from a dismal 71 IPOs for proceeds of $7.7 billion in 2022, when high inflation and rising interest rates discouraged companies from hitting the market. This year’s big IPOs included healthcare products company Kenvue in May, U.K. chip designer Arm Holdings in September and footwear company Birkenstock in October. They accounted for over half of the total IPO proceeds, according to Renaissance Capital. Instacart also had a splashy IPO in late summer.A post-pandemic surge for IPOs was stifled by the highest inflation in four decades in 2022, raising concerns about the economy buckling under the pressure. The Federal Reserve then embarked on a historic round of rate hikes to ...