NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks steadied on Wall Street. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% Thursday, breaking a two-day losing streak and edging back toward the all-time high it set on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.2%. Nvidia and other formerly high-flying tech stocks helped lift the market.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – An astronaut in need of doctors’ care departed the International Space Station with three crewmates on Wednesday in NASA’s first medical evacuation.

Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump’s view that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal to end the almost four years of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbor, a Kremlin official said Thursday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, “Yes, we can agree with it, it’s indeed so.”

TOKYO (AP) – The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own surprise cultural exchange in a surprise jam session drumming to K-pop hits.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s second term has been eventful. You wouldn’t know it from his approval numbers.  An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance as president. That’s virtually unchanged from March 2025, shortly after he took office for the second time.

BANGKOK (AP) – Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok won’t be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X.

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NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) – A new construction accident on a road near Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, was reported on Thursday, just 24 hours after a construction crane fell on a moving passenger train in the country’s northeast, killing at least 32 people.