NEW YORK (AP) - More swings hit Wall Street on Friday, except the U.S. stock market finished higher this time. After bobbing up and down through the morning, the S&P 500 took off and rallied nearly 2% before finishing with a gain of 1%. The Dow climbed 493 points, or 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.9%.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – More than 200 schoolchildren were seized by gunmen who attacked a Catholic school in northcentral Nigeria’s Niger state on Friday, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria.
President Donald Trump and New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met Friday at the White House and focused more on their shared goals rather than their combustible differences. The president has previously said Mamdani is a “100% Communist Lunatic” and a “total nut job.”













