Tech stocks and retailers and other companies that rely directly on consumer spending posted some of the biggest losses.
Carol Semple
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Russian forces leave Snake Island, keep up assault in eastern Ukraine
Snake Island sits along a busy shipping lane, and Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
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Treasury Department blocks $1 billion trust owned by Russian oligarch
The size of the trust and the complexity of the investigation made this a unique case, according to the department.
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Judge to block Florida abortion ban; Kentucky ban on hold
The cases reflect battles being waged in courts across the country after the Supreme Court said abortion was no longer protected under the federal constitution.
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Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case that is similar to Maine’s
The current case involves a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that doesn’t offer an exemption for religious reasons.
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Jan. 6 hearings fuel the question: Did Trump commit a crime?
Here is a look at potential crimes related to Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and at what Congress and the Justice Department might do.
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Jan. 6 panel subpoenas former White House counsel who resisted Trump’s schemes
Pat Cipollone is said to have stridently warned against then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to try to overturn his election loss.
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Former candidate Eliot Cutler, facing child porn charges, sells Portland home
The former Maine gubernatorial candidate is free on bail after being charged with 4 counts of possession of sexually explicit material of a child under 12.
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Whale entanglements drop, but remain major threat, government reports
Four of the 53 whales entangled in 2020 were North Atlantic right whales, which are in the midst of population decline due to recent years of high mortality and poor reproduction.
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Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump White House aide, offers revelations about Jan. 6
It was a 25-year-old staffer who perhaps put Donald Trump’s conduct into its sharpest relief during testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.