NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street edged back from its records following a mixed start to the latest profit reporting season for big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Tuesday after drifting earlier between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.1%.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysian authorities said Tuesday they will take legal action against Elon Musk’s social media platform X and its artificial intelligence unit xAI, accusing the companies of failing to ensure the safety of users of its Grok chatbot.

NEW YORK (AP) – Up until this week, Wall Street has generally benefited from the Trump administration’s policies and has been supportive of the president. When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law in July, it also cut the budget of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at times the banking industry’s nemesis, by nearly half.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – An independent counsel on Tuesday demanded the death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.

A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said.

NARA, Japan (AP) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Japan on Tuesday for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, aiming to improve the sometimes-strained relationship as Tokyo faces a deepening row with China.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has once again drawn his go-to diplomatic weapon – tariffs, this time to coerce the Iranian government to end its bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.

HONG KONG (AP) – A Hong Kong court heard arguments Monday about the sentencing of democracy advocate and onetime-media magnate Jimmy Lai, whose conviction under a national security law could land him in prison for the rest of his life. Lai founded the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper and was an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party.