Inflation cools again, potentially paving way for Fed to cut interest rates soon
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July 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States cooled in June for a third straight month, a sign that the worst price spike in four decades is steadily fading and may soon usher in interest rate cut...
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Defense attorney: 'Alec Baldwin committed no crime'
July 10, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military urged all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south Wednesday, pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of th...
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July 4, 2024
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in...
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2004
July 4, 2024
• Campbell Transportation in Dunlevy did something that no local river transportation company had done in 30 years—it launched two new towboats to ply the waters of the Monongahela and other local riv...
Americans suffer searing heat to celebrate Fourth of July
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July 4, 2024
(AP) — Millions of people in the U.S. celebrated and suffered under heat warnings as they flocked to beaches and traveled in droves to toast their nation’s birth with July 4 parades, cookouts and the ...
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June 27, 2024
Justice Department charges nearly 200 people in $2.7 billion health care fraud schemes crackdown WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care...
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June 27, 2024
TODAY IN HISTORY 28 Today is Friday, June 28, the 180th day of 2024. There are 186 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight: On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie,...
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2004
June 27, 2024
• The history of Perryopolis told through an extensive display of artifacts was on display at the opening of the Old State Bank Museum as part of a bicentennial celebration. Noreen Halvonik, Perryopol...
Supreme Court rejects opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
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June 27, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civi...
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June 25, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collaps...
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June 25, 2024
TODAY IN HISTORY 26 Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2024. There are 188 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight: In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut ...
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2004
June 25, 2024
• Families in the Perryopolis area will receive some letters and postcards a little late this week but the U.S. Postal Service isn’t to blame. Those late letters have been buried underground for decad...
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June 25, 2024
Jazz musician-film composer Dave Grusin is 90. Singer Billy Davis Jr. is 86. Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician Gilberto Gil is 82. R&B singer Brenda Holloway is 78. Actor Robert Davi is 73. S...
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June 10, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial began deliberating Monday whether the president’s son is guilty of federal firearms charges over a revolver he bought in 2018 when prosecutor...
Jury is chosen in Hunter Biden’s federal firearms case
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June 3, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A jury was seated Monday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, after prospective panelists were questioned about their thoughts on gun rights and dr...