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With strike looming, progress is reported in talks between Eastern and Gulf ports and dockworkers

With strike looming, progress is reported in talks between Eastern and Gulf ports and dockworkers

By MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a strike deadline looming, the union for 45,000 dockworkers and the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports have exchanged wage…

Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records to close a winning September and third quarter

Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records to close a winning September and third quarter

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed its latest winning month and quarter with more records on Monday. The drift higher for U.S. stocks followed a wild start to…

Voters in Northern California county to vote on whether to allow large-scale farms

Voters in Northern California county to vote on whether to allow large-scale farms

PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — A proposal to phase out large-scale confined animal farms will be put before voters in a Northern California county. Sonoma County residents will decide whether to approve Measure J. Proponents say…

Trump escalates attacks on Harris’ mental fitness and suggests she should be prosecuted

Trump escalates attacks on Harris’ mental fitness and suggests she should be prosecuted

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump escalated his personal attacks on his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, on Sunday by repeating an insult that…

Hezbollah confirms that an Israeli strike killed a top official, the 7th such death in recent days

Hezbollah confirms that an Israeli strike killed a top official, the 7th such death in recent days

By MELANIE LIDMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it has killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a…

In Alabama, Trump goes from the dark rhetoric of his campaign to adulation of college football fans

In Alabama, Trump goes from the dark rhetoric of his campaign to adulation of college football fans

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — As Donald Trump railed against immigrants Saturday afternoon in the Rust Belt, his supporters in the Deep South had turned his earlier broadsides into a rallying cry over a college football game as…