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Fox News producer out after onscreen message calling President Biden a ‘wannabe dictator’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

By DAVID BAUDER | AP Media WriterNEW YORK — A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump.The producer, Alex McCaskill, confirmed his exit in an Instagram post. Fox News did not comment on Friday.He had remained at Fox after Carlson, the network’s most popular personality, was fired on April 24. The reason for Carlson’s sudden ouster, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to end a defamation case, has never been publicly explained.It was during the last minutes of Carlson’s former time slot on Tuesday when the message appeared under separate onscreen boxes that showed Biden and Trump talking. It read: “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”Carlson, in a Twitter monologue posted Thursday, said “the women who run ...

Lost dog found on Bay Bridge Friday morning

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A lost dog was found on the Bay Bridge early Friday morning wandering in the center median, according to the California Highway Patrol. The dog, a light brown colored male with a large head and a white chest, was on the eastbound I-80. Toddler, 2, injured after being hit by truck in Concord "Looking for my owner," the CHP posted on Twitter. "If you lost your dog, please respond to the SF Animal Care & Control to retrieve him.""Please ensure you properly restrain your animals," the post concluded.

How major US stock indexes fared Friday 6/16/2023

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

Wall Street closed out its best week since March on a quiet note. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Friday after wobbling up and down through the day. The benchmark index still marked its fifth straight winning week, its longest such streak since November 2021. It’s also near its highest level since April 2022. The Dow and the Nasdaq composite fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed to 3.77%. Humana dropped 3.9% after becoming the latest health insurer to warn about rising costs because of pent-up demand for medical services.On Friday:The S&P 500 fell 16.25 points, or 0.4%, to 4,409.59.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 108.94 points, or 0.3%, to 34,299.12.The Nasdaq composite fell 93.25 points, or 0.7% to 13,689.57.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 13.81 points, or 0.7%, to 1,875.47.For the week:The S&P 500 is up 110.73 points, or 2.6%.The Dow is up 422.34 points, or 1.2%.The Nasdaq is up 430.43 points, or 3.2%.The Russell 2000 is up 9.76 points, or 0...

LGBTQ+ Milwaukee supervisor says man attacked him with a gay slur, then punched him in the face

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County’s first openly LGBTQ+ county supervisor says an assailant attacked him with a gay slur and then punched him in the face this week at a suburban mall.Supervisor Peter Burgelis was struck in the face while inside a store at the Mayfair Mall on Monday, news outlets reported, citing Wauwatosa police.The attack happened after a dispute in the parking lot, police said Friday. Officers said the suspect left before they arrived at the scene but they have identified a person of interest.Burgelis told WTMJ-TV that he went to a hospital after the attack and will have surgery on his jaw.“I will never be silenced, nor will I allow this act of violence to detract from our ongoing efforts to secure acceptance and equality for the LGBTQ+ community,” Burgelis said in a written statement. “If anything, this assault serves as a stark reminder of the pervasive challenges we continue to face.”Source

Stock market today: Wall Street slips, and its best week since March comes to a quiet close

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its best week since March with a quiet finish on Friday, and stocks drifted to modest losses.The S&P 500 fell 16.25 points, or 0.4%, to 4,409.59 after wobbling through the day. It still closed out a fifth straight winning week for its longest such streak since November 2021, and it remains close to its highest level since April 2022.The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 108.94, or 0.3%, to 34,299.12, and the Nasdaq composite fell 93.25, or 0.7%, to 13,689.57.Humana dropped 3.9% for one of the S&P 500’s sharpest losses after becoming the latest health insurer to warn about rising costs because of pent-up demand for medical services. Health insurance giant UnitedHealth issued a similar warning earlier in the week.Treasury yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.76% from 3.72% late Thursday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which moves more on expectations for the Federal Reserve, rose to 4.72% from 4.65%....

Biden urges tougher gun restrictions, one year after Uvalde, Texas, school massacre

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

FILE - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School to pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting, May 29, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Biden will speak at a summit in Connecticut on Friday, June 16, 2023, to mark the first anniversary of a gun safety law signed after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)(AP/Evan Vucci) FILE - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School to pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting, May 29, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Biden will speak at a summit in Connecticut on Friday, June 16, 2023, to mark the first anniversary of a gun safety law signed after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)...

WTOP’s Beer of the Week: Fidens The Color of the Night Oatmeal Stout

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

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Body Mass Index doesn’t give full health picture, AMA says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

The American Medical Association is now advising doctors to focus less on Body Mass Index when it comes to overall health. Doctors have traditionally used BMI as an important metric — if it was too high or too low a patient was considered unhealthy.“Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion and because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations,” the organization said in a statement on Wednesday.Thomas Sherman, professor of Pharmacology & Physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, told WTOP there are more accurate ways of measuring the risk between body weight and health, including waist-to-hip ratio and waist circumference, which are more predictive of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk.Still, he said, weight matters.“The concept that there is a healthy obese, or a healthy overweig...

Greek coast guard defends actions as more than 500 migrants heading for Europe feared dead in wreck

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to a ship that went down off the country’s south coast and left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. Criticism mounted over Europe’s yearslong failure to prevent such tragedies.Patrol boats and a helicopter spent a third day scouring the area of the Mediterranean Sea where the packed fishing vessel capsized early Wednesday, in what the U.N. migration agency said could be the second deadliest migrant shipwreck recorded. The deadliest occurred when a vessel capsized off the coast of Libya en route to Italy in April 2015, killing an estimated 1,100 people. Greek coast guard spokesman Nikos Alexiou said that both coast guard and private ships repeatedly offered by radio and loudspeaker to help the vessel Wednesday while it was in international waters, also heading from Libya to Italy, but they were rejected.Alexiou argued that any effort to tow the overcrowded trawler or move hundreds of unwillin...

Blinken stresses need for better US-Chinese communications as he heads to Beijing

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:54:38 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly before setting out for Beijing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday emphasized the importance of the U.S. and China establishing better lines of communication. He will be the highest-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit China. The U.S. wants to make sure “that the competition we have with China doesn’t veer into conflict” due to avoidable misunderstandings, Blinken told reporters in Washington.Blinken, speaking alongside Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, said his China trip is the outgrowth of a meeting in Bali last year between Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. The two agreed that China and the United States, the world’s biggest two economies and increasingly top rivals for global influence, must maintain contacts and and take steps to avoid unintended conflicts. Blinken’s trip came within a day of happening in February but was delayed by the diplomatic and political tumult brought on by the discove...