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Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Brighthouse Financial — The insurance company soared 26% after Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that a group led by Aquarian Holdings was in talks to pay $65 to $70 per share for Brighthouse Financial. Scholastic — The publisher’s stock fell nearly 11%. Scholastic posted a loss per share of $2.52 for the fiscal first quarter, excluding items, wider than the loss of $2.13 per share seen in the same period a year prior. Newmont , Orla Mining — Shares of Newmont and Orla Mining moved in opposite…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The last two remaining dates in singer d4vd’s U.S. tour and multiple stops in his upcoming European tour have been removed from ticketing websites, as authorities continue to investigate the discovery of the decomposed body of a teenage girl in Los Angeles. Police have not said d4vd (pronounced “David”) is implicated in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose body was found inside an impounded Tesla earlier this month. Celeste, 15, was reported missing last year. Several news outlets have reported that the vehicle was registered to d4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, 20.…

ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist who has been in immigration detention in Georgia since June said Friday they’re worried his deportation could be imminent after an appeals panel reopened an old immigration case against him and ordered him sent back to El Salvador.Local police just outside Atlanta arrested Mario Guevara while he was covering a protest on June 14, and he was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An immigration judge in July granted him bond, but he remained in custody while the government appealed.All criminal charges filed against Guevara after his arrest have been…

The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, speaking Friday before a New York audience, defended his 2019 decision to recognize an independent church in Ukraine, and he denounced the Russian Orthodox Church as giving a “ringing endorsement to the invasion of Ukraine.”Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople made the remarks before the Council on Foreign Relations during a stop on his 12-day visit to the United States. It also included meetings with President Donald Trump and other political leaders.Bartholomew has long been critical of the Russian Orthodox Church and its support for the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.He reiterated…

Sep 19, 2025, 12:31 PM ETWrexham’s non-executive director Shaun Harvey has labelled speculation that Phil Parkinson’s job is at risk as an “absolute disgrace,” and insisted that the club will not “panic” despite a poor start to the season.Parkinson has led Wrexham to three straight promotions but after a tough start to life in the Championship — the Welsh side are 21st in the second tier with one win from five games — a local newspaper reported that owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac had held talks over the manager’s future.But Harvey has said that Parkinson has the board’s full…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Carmen Chávez has a clear answer for those wondering why she and her partner chose to get married on Sept. 19 — the anniversary of two deadly earthquakes that struck Mexico 32 years apart.“This was a tragic date for me,” said Chávez, who remembers how buildings collapsed in downtown Mexico City 40 years ago. “So I want to give this day a new meaning. From now on, it will mark the beginning of our life together.”There is no official consensus on the overall death toll from the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes. Some estimates put the total…

U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to announce an agreement with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (not pictured) between the two countries, at Chequers at the conclusion of a state visit on Sept. 18, 2025 in Aylesbury, Britain. Leon Neal | Via ReutersA federal judge in Tampa, Florida, on Friday dismissed President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times as “decidedly improper and impermissible,” but is allowing Trump to refile a much shorter and less florid amended civil complaint within the next month.Judge Steven Merryday criticized Trump’s lengthy lawsuit — which accuses the Times of being a…

SEATTLE (AP) — Four U.S. Army soldiers who were part of an elite team that does nighttime missions died when the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were aboard crashed earlier this week near a military base in Washington state, Army officials said Friday.The helicopter was on a routine training mission west of Joint Base Lewis-McChord when it crashed at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command said. The soldiers were part of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Airborne, officials said. Recovery efforts are underway, and the cause of the crash remains under investigation, Army officials said.The…

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran said Friday that he doesn’t anticipate President Donald Trump’s tariffs will have an inflationary effect on the U.S. economy.”I’m clearly in the minority in not being concerned about inflation from tariffs,” he said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.” “But that was also true in 2018-2019, and I think I probably could take a little victory lap about that.””There will always be relative price changes, but whether or not it’s inflation that’s macroeconomically significant of the type that monetary policy should respond to is a different question,” he added.His comments come after the Fed governor was the…

For the second consecutive year, Hawaii landed the top spot on WalletHub’s annual ranking of the happiest states in America.WalletHub’s 2025 report found that even though people across the country are facing difficult times and dealing with issues like the cost of living and economic uncertainty, the state in which you live can significantly impact your overall happiness.To determine the ranking, WalletHub examined the 50 states across 30 metrics within three key dimensions: emotional and physical well-being, work environment and community and environment.Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing maximum happiness.Last year, California…