NEW YORK (AP) - A mixed day of trading left the U.S. stock market split, as Wall Street's momentum slowed after setting record highs in each of the last two days. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% Tuesday for its first loss in four days. The Dow rose roughly 400 points, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.8%.
NEW YORK (AP) – In choosing Zohran Mamdani as their candidate for mayor, Democrats in America’s most Jewish city have nominated an outspoken critic of Israel, alarming some in New York’s Jewish community and signaling a sea change in the priorities of one of the party’s most loyal voting groups.
WASHINGTON (AP) – It was a surprising statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi as the Trump administration promises to release more files from its sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein: The FBI, she said, was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of the wealthy financier “with children or child porn.”
LONDON (AP) – U.K. police announced Monday that the weekend performances by rap punk duo Bob Vylan and Irish-language band Kneecap at the Glastonbury Festival are subject to a criminal investigation after they led crowds in chants calling for “death” to the Israeli military and chants of “Free Palestine.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – Pro-Iran hackers have threatened to release emails supposedly stolen from people connected to President Donald Trump, according to a news report, a move that federal authorities call a “calculated smear campaign.”
LONDON (AP) – British police said they were examining videos of a band that led chants of “death to the IDF” – Israel Defense Forces – at the Glastonbury Festival. Rapper Bobby Vylan, of rap punk duo Bob Vylan, led crowds attending the festival on Saturday in chants of “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF.”
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving.