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5 takeaways from Harris’s pick of Tim Walz as her VP nominee

Aaron Blake
Aug 06, 2024 1:43 pm - Vice President Harris on Tuesday announced that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be her running mate in the 2024 election, at long last solidifying the two major-party presid...
What are carry trades and how did they contribute to this week’s global market mayhem?

By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Aug 06, 2024 3:54 pm - BANGKOK — The mayhem that swept across world markets this week was partly caused by a market strategy known as the “carry trade.” Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 plunged 12...
Elon Musk’s X sues advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’ after Twitter takeover

The Associated Press
Aug 06, 2024 12:37 pm - WICHITA FALLS, Tex. — Elon Musk's social media platform X has sued a group of advertisers, alleging that a “massive advertiser boycott” deprived the company of billions o...
Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif claims to undermine the Olympics

By DAVID KLEPPER
Aug 06, 2024 11:09 am - WASHINGTON — The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and the sewage, ...
Tim Walz’s journey from high school football coach to VP candidate

Amy B Wang, Sabrina Rodriguez
Aug 06, 2024 9:17 am - Some 20 years ago, a lawyer named Kamala Harris won her first political race, becoming the first Black and South Asian woman elected district attorney of San Francisco in...
A ‘Textbook Turnaround Tuesday’ doesn’t mean meltdown is over

By Richard Henderson
Aug 06, 2024 7:53 am - It’s an old cliché but the phenomenon known as Turnaround Tuesday — when markets rebound from a sell-off at the start of the week — is an opportunity that shows up time a...
Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate, aiming to add Midwest muscle to ticket

By WILL WEISSERT
Aug 06, 2024 1:45 pm - Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend

By NOREEN NASIR
Aug 06, 2024 7:01 am - Overcome with emotion, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif left the ring in tears after a resounding victory this weekend. Khelif has faced days of hateful comments and false acc...
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Debby bringing torrential rains, major flood threat to southeastern U.S.

By JEFF MARTIN and CHRISTOPHER O'MEARA
Aug 06, 2024 8:05 pm - CHARLESTON, S.C. — Tropical Storm Debby drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina, stirred up tornadoes and submerged streets with waist-high floodwaters Tues...
Calm returns to Wall Street, and stocks bounce back after their worst drop in nearly 2 years

By STAN CHOE
Aug 06, 2024 3:53 pm - Stocks rose on Wall Street as calm returned to the market a day after its worst drop in nearly two years. The S&P 500 rose 1% Tuesday to break a brutal three-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite added 1%.

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