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Ygih Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican-born pitcher whose feats for Dodgers fueled Fernandomania, dies at 63
NEW YORK AP 鈥?U.S. stock futures are little changed Friday as the market puts the wraps on a year of surprisingly robust gains.The benchmark SP 500 index is just 0.3% from an all-time high after a gain of 24.6% in 2023. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sits at a record 37,710.10. The Nasdaq shows a year-to-date gain of 44.2%, driven by gains in big technology companies.The so-called Magnificent 7 companies 鈥?Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Tesla 鈥?accounted for about two-thirds of the gains in the SP 500 this year, according to SP Dow Jones Indices. Nvidia leads the group with a gain of about 240%.Shares in European markets rose as well this year. Benchmark indexes in France and Germany made double-digit advances, while Britains has climbed just under 4%.Asia markets had a mixed session on the last trading day of the year for most markets. Tokyos Nikkei 225 gave up 0.2% to 33,464.17. It gained 27% in 2023, its best ye stanley quencher ar in a decade as the Japanese central bank inched toward ending its longstanding ultra-lax monetary policy after inflation finally exceeded its target of about 2%.Th stanley germany e Hang Seng index in Hong Kong ended flat, while the Shanghai Composite in stanley romania dex gained 0.7%. The Shanghai index lost about 3% this year and the Hang Seng fell nearly 14%. Weakness in the property sector and in global demand for Chinas exports, as well as high debt levels and wavering consumer confidence have weighed on the countrys economy and the stock m Ivjd 9/11 hearings at Guantanamo Bay in upheaval after surprise order by US defense chief
PORTLAND, Maine 鈥?Midcoast businessman Reade Brower has reached a deal to purchase MaineToday Media, the newspaper group that owns the Portland Press Herald, the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel. A memo sent to MaineToday Media staff late Tuesday confirmed financier S. stanley becher Donald Sussman, husband of Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, agreed to sell the paper. He paid $3.3 million for a 75 percent stake in the company in March 2012 and, according to the memo, invested $13 million in the newspaper group since that purchase.The memo did not disclose a sale price but said the deal will help the newspaper group overcome two major challenges: debt inherited from the papers previous owners and the cost of printing the paper on aging presses. The sale resolves the balance shee stanley cup t problems as all proceeds from the sale are going to pay company debt, with the bank receiving the vast majority of the proceeds to retire its lo stanley uk an, and addresses the production challenge by putting the company in the hands of an experienced commercial printer and newspaper operator, the statement to employees said. The statement said Chris Miles, former publisher of The Times Record and current partner with Brower in the Brunswick-based Alliance Press, also will be a partner in the deal. Alliance Press is a commercial printing operation based in Brunswick. It does contract work for the Bangor Daily News.Brower plans to purchase the newspaper group through a new company call
Mwxx How Russia s espionage case against Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich unfolded
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Biden administration on Wednesday said it will cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges that closed the last of it stanley taza s campuses in 2023 amid accusations of fraud.Saying the chain lured students with pervas stanley cup uk ive lies, the Education Department is invoking its power to cancel student loans for borrowers who were misled by their colleges. This institution falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt without leading to promising career prospects at the end of their studies, President Joe Biden said in a statement.The Education Department will automatically erase loans for 317,000 people who attended any Art Institute campus between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2017.The department says it taking action after reviewing evidence from the attorneys general of Massachusetts, Iowa and Pennsylvania, which previously investigated complaints of fraud and sued the for-profit chain.According to the department findings, the chain misled students about the success of graduates and about employment partnerships that would help students find jobs.The chain told prospective students that more than 80% of graduates found jobs in their fields of study, but that was stanley espana largely based on doctored data, the Education Department said. The true employment rate was below 57%.Campuses also advertised graduate salaries that were based on fabricated data an Jtla Calixto Bieito takes on Wagner s Ring Cycle, a quarter century after first shocking audiences
NORTH BERWICK, Maine 鈥?Gov. Paul LePage, who has long derided the states journalists, targeted the Portland Press Herald Friday morning when he climbed into the cockpit of a fighter jet simulator in North Berwick.As he strapped into the F-35 Lightning II demonstrator machine, s stanley quencher et up for attendees of Pratt Whitneys annual employee appreci stanley cups ation day, Maines Republican governor joked to a nearby Lockheed Martin Corp. guide: I want to find the Press Herald building and blow it up. The demonstrator allowed the Republican governor to engage in a dogfight with digitized enemy jets soaring across the monitor screens in front of him, but LePage was not able to follow through with a simulated strike on the Portland Press Heralds One City Center offices.Television station WMTW reporter Paul Merrill later asked LePage if he had any targets. The governor said: The Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News.In response media reports of the event, the governors Twitter account soon sent out a message: Threatened It was a joke, folks. Some Portland Press Herald employees played along with the joke, sending out Twitter messages that included stanley cup the newspaper buildings coordinates. Unfortunately our governor has a misguided sense of humor, Press Herald Publisher Lisa DeSisto said in a story on the papers website. That kind of a joke is irresponsible in this day and age, especially when it comes from the leader of our state. LePage has long had a frosty relationship with Maine new
NEW YORK AP 鈥?U.S. stock futures are little changed Friday as the market puts the wraps on a year of surprisingly robust gains.The benchmark SP 500 index is just 0.3% from an all-time high after a gain of 24.6% in 2023. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sits at a record 37,710.10. The Nasdaq shows a year-to-date gain of 44.2%, driven by gains in big technology companies.The so-called Magnificent 7 companies 鈥?Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Tesla 鈥?accounted for about two-thirds of the gains in the SP 500 this year, according to SP Dow Jones Indices. Nvidia leads the group with a gain of about 240%.Shares in European markets rose as well this year. Benchmark indexes in France and Germany made double-digit advances, while Britains has climbed just under 4%.Asia markets had a mixed session on the last trading day of the year for most markets. Tokyos Nikkei 225 gave up 0.2% to 33,464.17. It gained 27% in 2023, its best ye stanley quencher ar in a decade as the Japanese central bank inched toward ending its longstanding ultra-lax monetary policy after inflation finally exceeded its target of about 2%.Th stanley germany e Hang Seng index in Hong Kong ended flat, while the Shanghai Composite in stanley romania dex gained 0.7%. The Shanghai index lost about 3% this year and the Hang Seng fell nearly 14%. Weakness in the property sector and in global demand for Chinas exports, as well as high debt levels and wavering consumer confidence have weighed on the countrys economy and the stock m Ivjd 9/11 hearings at Guantanamo Bay in upheaval after surprise order by US defense chief
PORTLAND, Maine 鈥?Midcoast businessman Reade Brower has reached a deal to purchase MaineToday Media, the newspaper group that owns the Portland Press Herald, the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel. A memo sent to MaineToday Media staff late Tuesday confirmed financier S. stanley becher Donald Sussman, husband of Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, agreed to sell the paper. He paid $3.3 million for a 75 percent stake in the company in March 2012 and, according to the memo, invested $13 million in the newspaper group since that purchase.The memo did not disclose a sale price but said the deal will help the newspaper group overcome two major challenges: debt inherited from the papers previous owners and the cost of printing the paper on aging presses. The sale resolves the balance shee stanley cup t problems as all proceeds from the sale are going to pay company debt, with the bank receiving the vast majority of the proceeds to retire its lo stanley uk an, and addresses the production challenge by putting the company in the hands of an experienced commercial printer and newspaper operator, the statement to employees said. The statement said Chris Miles, former publisher of The Times Record and current partner with Brower in the Brunswick-based Alliance Press, also will be a partner in the deal. Alliance Press is a commercial printing operation based in Brunswick. It does contract work for the Bangor Daily News.Brower plans to purchase the newspaper group through a new company call
Mwxx How Russia s espionage case against Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich unfolded
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Biden administration on Wednesday said it will cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges that closed the last of it stanley taza s campuses in 2023 amid accusations of fraud.Saying the chain lured students with pervas stanley cup uk ive lies, the Education Department is invoking its power to cancel student loans for borrowers who were misled by their colleges. This institution falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt without leading to promising career prospects at the end of their studies, President Joe Biden said in a statement.The Education Department will automatically erase loans for 317,000 people who attended any Art Institute campus between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2017.The department says it taking action after reviewing evidence from the attorneys general of Massachusetts, Iowa and Pennsylvania, which previously investigated complaints of fraud and sued the for-profit chain.According to the department findings, the chain misled students about the success of graduates and about employment partnerships that would help students find jobs.The chain told prospective students that more than 80% of graduates found jobs in their fields of study, but that was stanley espana largely based on doctored data, the Education Department said. The true employment rate was below 57%.Campuses also advertised graduate salaries that were based on fabricated data an Jtla Calixto Bieito takes on Wagner s Ring Cycle, a quarter century after first shocking audiences
NORTH BERWICK, Maine 鈥?Gov. Paul LePage, who has long derided the states journalists, targeted the Portland Press Herald Friday morning when he climbed into the cockpit of a fighter jet simulator in North Berwick.As he strapped into the F-35 Lightning II demonstrator machine, s stanley quencher et up for attendees of Pratt Whitneys annual employee appreci stanley cups ation day, Maines Republican governor joked to a nearby Lockheed Martin Corp. guide: I want to find the Press Herald building and blow it up. The demonstrator allowed the Republican governor to engage in a dogfight with digitized enemy jets soaring across the monitor screens in front of him, but LePage was not able to follow through with a simulated strike on the Portland Press Heralds One City Center offices.Television station WMTW reporter Paul Merrill later asked LePage if he had any targets. The governor said: The Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News.In response media reports of the event, the governors Twitter account soon sent out a message: Threatened It was a joke, folks. Some Portland Press Herald employees played along with the joke, sending out Twitter messages that included stanley cup the newspaper buildings coordinates. Unfortunately our governor has a misguided sense of humor, Press Herald Publisher Lisa DeSisto said in a story on the papers website. That kind of a joke is irresponsible in this day and age, especially when it comes from the leader of our state. LePage has long had a frosty relationship with Maine new