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President Donald Trump won a major victory in Texas on Tuesday, ousting a Republican incumbent senator he considers “very disloyal” in favor of an opponent he personally endorsed. In a highly watched runoff election for the Republican Senate nomination, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term Sen. John Cornyn with 63.8% of votes. Paxton gained …
BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday she had discussed Ukraine’s path to EU membership with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “The coming weeks will be important to take decisive steps forward in the accession process,” she said in a post on social media platform X. German Chancellor Friedrich …
The S&P 500 is on a hot streak, notching nine record highs in May alone despite soaring gasoline prices, sliding consumer confidence and the highest inflation in almost three years. The rally in stocks also has more room to run, according to Wall Street analysts. On Wednesday, Goldman Sachs upped its target for the S&P …
Newly obtained GPS data in the case of Lynette Hooker‘s disappearance in the Bahamas has prompted U.S. investigators to relaunch a search for the body of the missing Michigan woman, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation told CBS News. After the forensic evidence appeared to contradict her husband’s account of where he was the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — He boasted of fixing city fountains and power-washing a local pool — making careful distinctions between sandblasting versus pebble-blasting — and detailing efforts to repair brick walkways in a public park. But this wasn’t a small-town mayor assuring a few dozen community members at a town hall that municipal improvement efforts would …
Just two months after the Kona low storms, another potential disaster is playing out on the rural southwest side of Hawaiʻi island. But this time, instead of too much water, farmers and other rural residents suddenly don’t have enough. Saturday’s 6.0 magnitude earthquake crushed and burst water catchment systems — large wooden and metal tanks …
It may be worth locking your money into a high-rate CD account now that interest rates are holding steady again. Getty Images/iStockphoto If you have a large, five-figure amount of money, such as $90,000, in your savings account now, investing it in stocks, bonds, real estate or a mix of all three may seem like …
Massachusetts may have just taken the wheel when it comes to “gig” worker rights. Drivers for apps like Uber or Lyft have officially unionized in the Bay State – an unprecedented step that could set the stage for similar collective bargaining drives across the country. This week’s announcement from the App Drivers Union is by …
NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) – CBS News has not renewed the contract of Sharyn Alfonsi, the “60 Minutes” correspondent who clashed with Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over a December report on a Salvadoran prison, according to an interview published on Wednesday in the New York Times. CBS pulled the segment – about a mega-prison where …
The Mexican governor of Chihuahua said Wednesday she was “being persecuted” by the country’s ruling party over the case of two U.S. officials who died in April during an unauthorized drug raid in her state. Maria Eugenia Campos, from the opposition National Action Party, appeared for questioning at the Mexican General Prosecutors office in Mexico …