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EATONTOWN, N.J. (AP) — EATONTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Climb Global Solutions, Inc. (CLMB) on Wednesday reported profit of $2.7 million in its first quarter.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Barrett Business Services Inc. (BBSI) on Wednesday reported a first-quarter loss of $136,000, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — National Fuel Gas Co. (NFG) on Wednesday reported net income of $166.3 million in its fiscal second quarter.

Mark Meadows, former president Donald Trump's chief of staff, faces the same conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges as the other named defendants in Arizona's fake electors case, the state attorney general's office says. Meadows was served with the indictment, revealing nine felony counts, Richie Taylor, a spokesperson for the Arizona attorney general's office, wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday. Charges have not been made public against one defendant, Rudy Giuliani, the Trump-aligned former New York mayor. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention later this month as he tries to woo voters beyond the Republican base. The group announced Trump's invitation on Wednesday. Trump, in a statement, said, “If Libertarians join me and the Republican Party, where we have many Libertarian views, the election won’t even be close." The event comes as Trump’s campaign has ramped up its attacks against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as an independent against Trump and President Joe Biden. Читать дальше...

Traffic and transit disruptions are likely amid pro-Palestinian protests.

This article was first published on NerdWallet.com.

May mortgage rate forecast

Mortgage rates will probably remain above 7% in May as inflation resists the Federal Reserve's efforts to bring it under control. It left rates unchanged at the conclusion of its April 30-May 1 meeting, and seemed as frustrated by inflation and high interest rates as home buyers are.

The Fed is trying to wrestle the inflation rate down to 2%. The central bank made progress toward that goal in the last half of 2023... Читать дальше...

The grocery store's original location in Oakland will remain open.

California is forecast to see a cold May storm, with rain and mountain snow.

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A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. The town of Ménaka, in northeastern Mali, has been under siege for four months, driving up the prices of food. Other essential goods like medication are increasingly hard to find, residents and aid groups say. “The humanitarian situation is catastrophic, with displaced people going from house to house asking for food for their families. Читать дальше...

Maryland officials have approved more than $3 million in compensation for a man who spent more than 31 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder. Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting on Wednesday where the compensation was approved. Washington was convicted in 1987 when he was 25. He is now 63. He was released in October 2018 and the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office later dismissed the charges. Moore noted that no physical evidence linked... Читать дальше...

A Wisconsin school district said a persona it described as an active shooter was outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on Wednesday but the threat was "neutralized” and no one was injured inside the building. There was no immediate report of any shots fired, and the district said in several posts on Facebook that students at all of the district’s schools were on lockdown. It also told family members not to show up at any schools. The district said in one post that police were working to confirm all students' safety at the middle school.

An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on the suburban Chicago campus. By quickly defusing the protests in Evanston and avoiding the longer standoffs that happened on other campuses, the Northwestern deal offered an example of successful negotiations. Brown University announced a similar deal on Tuesday. Administrators at Johns Hopkins University focused talks on limiting student protests to daytime hours. Читать дальше...

Scientists just recorded the species' highest population count in 25 years.

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After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death across the Gaza Strip, media across the wider Middle East has latched onto the demonstrations roiling American university campuses over the Israel-Hamas war. For some, the protests and what they describe as a heavy-handed police crackdown on them represent the double standards of life in the United States — which routinely calls on nations to respect dissent and free speech. However, across the swath of the Mideast, demonstrations of any kind remain illegal as many countries face warfare... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump has secured another $1.8 billion worth of shares in Trump Media, according to a regulatory filing this week. Based on the company’s stock hitting certain price benchmarks, Trump was awarded an additional 36 million shares in the company that owns his social media platform Truth Social. That brings his total ownership to more than 114 million shares, which based on Tuesday's closing price, are worth $5.7 billion. For now, the value of those shares is considered “paper... Читать дальше...

St. Louis' school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the plan was detailed in a letter sent Monday to St. Louis Public Schools parents. Under the plan, families who have experienced “chronic bus absenteeism” this school year will receive gas cards for the next two weeks. Starting May 13, all families in the district “willing to transport their children” can receive $75 for each of the last two weeks of school. Читать дальше...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel to press for a cease-fire deal with Hamas, saying “the time is now.” Blinken warned that Hamas would bear the blame for any failure to get an agreement to halt the war in Gaza off the ground. He greeted the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza who were protesting outside a meeting between him and Israel’s president, telling them that setting their loved ones free was “at the heart of everything we’re trying to do.” Blinken is trying to advance... Читать дальше...

Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with rallies against the global pressure of rising prices and calling for greater rights. Pro-Palestinian sentiments are also on display. Not all was peaceful. Police in Istanbul fired rubber bullets to disperse thousands of people who tried to reach the main Taksim square in defiance of a ban. In Paris, some workers set makeshift Olympic rings on fire. In South Korea's capital, thousands of protesters expressed frustration with the government. Читать дальше...

A student protest movement has washed over the country since police first tried to end an encampment at Columbia University in New York nearly two weeks ago. There have been fiery rhetoric and tumultuous arrests on high-profile campuses from New York to Los Angeles. But millions of students across the country have continued with their daily routines of working their way through school, socializing and studying for exams. The protests are demonstrating wide differences among Americans in 2024. Take Boston... Читать дальше...

A Massachusetts prosecutor won't seek criminal charges two years after four newborns were found in a freezer in a South Boston apartment. Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden called the investigation “complex, unusual and perplexing.” DNA tests showed the two boys and two girls whose remains were frozen in shoe boxes were born to a woman who is now 69 years old and in a residential healthcare facility. Investigators say she appeared confused and didn't even know where she was. Tests could not show whether they were born alive... Читать дальше...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson. The Georgia Republican is forcing her colleagues to choose sides after Democratic leaders announced they'd provide the votes to save the Republican speaker’s job. Speaking outside the Capitol on Wednesday, Greene railed against Republican Party leaders and pushed back against public entreaties from Donald Trump and others to avoid another messy political fight so close to the November election. With Greene was Rep. Читать дальше...

Heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least eight people and left 21 missing since Monday. That's according to the country’s civil defense. It said Wednesday an additional 11 people were injured and more than 1,400 were forced to leave their homes due to damage caused by the storms, the civil defense added. Operators reported electricity and water cuts across the state, and officials detailed numerous incidents of flooded roads, landslides and collapsed bridges as... Читать дальше...