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FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown on Sept. 10, 2024. in New York.

Stock market today: Wall Street rises to close its latest record-setting week as banks jump

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown on Sept. 10, 2024. in New York.

October 11, 2024, 1:46pm Business

U.S. stocks rose to records Friday as big banks rallied following a run of reassuring profit reports. Read story

FILE - A nurse talks to a patient in the emergency room at Salem Hospital in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 20, 2021. Oregonians will vote Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, on a slate of measures including one that would add a permit and in-person firearms training class for new gun buyers and another that would make Oregon the first state to mandate health care as a human right.

Washington not on pace to fill growing job gap

FILE - A nurse talks to a patient in the emergency room at Salem Hospital in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 20, 2021. Oregonians will vote Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, on a slate of measures including one that would add a permit and in-person firearms training class for new gun buyers and another that would make Oregon the first state to mandate health care as a human right.

October 11, 2024, 11:44am Business

Washington will have more than 1.5 million job openings in the next eight years but it’s not currently training enough people to fill them.  Read story

US consumer sentiment slips in October on frustration over high prices

October 11, 2024, 11:14am Business

Americans’ outlook on the economy soured a bit this month after two months of small gains, according to the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index, released Friday. Read story

FAA’s ‘failing system’ of monitoring Boeing blasted by federal watchdog

October 11, 2024, 11:11am Business

The Federal Aviation Administration hasn’t done enough to improve its oversight of Boeing to identify and address risks within the aerospace giant, a government watchdog agency said in a scathing report released Friday. Read story

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris walks toward reporters to speak before boarding Air Force Two, as she departs Las Vegas from Harry Reid International Airport, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, en route to Arizona.

Harris rips Trump for his criticism of federal storm response and calls for ‘dignity’

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris walks toward reporters to speak before boarding Air Force Two, as she departs Las Vegas from Harry Reid International Airport, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, en route to Arizona.

October 11, 2024, 8:20am Business

Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House criticized Donald Trump for his attacks on the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton and suggested he was wrongly trying to turn the deadly storms to his political advantage. Read story

Milton spares Daytona Beach, Florida, factory that’s a critical supplier of IV fluids

October 11, 2024, 8:17am Business

A Florida factory that makes IV fluids critical to hospitals nationwide will restart Friday morning after shutting down while Hurricane Milton tore through the state. Read story

An aerial view of quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., as taken from a plane on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D.

North Carolina maker of high-purity quartz back operating post-Helene

An aerial view of quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., as taken from a plane on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D.

October 11, 2024, 8:16am Business

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely damaged by Hurricane Helene is operating again. Read story

FILE - Tesla vehicles line a parking lot at the company&rsquo;s Fremont, Calif., factory, on Sept. 18, 2023.

Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s ‘Cybercab,’ plans to bring autonomous driving tech to other models in 2025

FILE - Tesla vehicles line a parking lot at the company&rsquo;s Fremont, Calif., factory, on Sept. 18, 2023.

October 11, 2024, 8:15am Business

Tesla unveiled its long-awaited robotaxi at a Hollywood studio Thursday night, though fans of the electric vehicle maker will have to wait until at least 2026 before they are available. Read story