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Russian drones
kill 15 at mall
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have hit a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more. The city in central Ukraine is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha said 23 children were among the 130 injured in the Friday afternoon strike. Zelenskyy said it was a double-tap attack, with an initial wave of drones hitting the area followed by a second wave as rescue workers arrived. He said such attacks are “nothing less than terrorist acts.”
Authorities say the shopping mall strikes, plus two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, killed a total of 21 people across Ukraine on Friday.
Stocks trim
their losses
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stocks rose and trimmed their losses from a shaky week. That’s even though the bond market, which has been the center of Wall Street’s action, remained jumpy and added more pressure Friday.
The S&P 500 rose 0.4% for just its second gain in the six days since setting its all-time high.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.4%. Ross Stores rallied after reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, and a report suggesting strong growth in U.S. business activity raised hopes for corporate profits broadly. Oil prices climbed.
Order against
Jones reduced
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas court has slashed a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to about $6 million over falsely calling the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings a hoax. The ruling does not affect a $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut, but is a significant legal victory for him after being found liable for damages for claiming the mass shooting didn’t happen.
Despite the multiple financial judgments against him in Connecticut and Texas, Jones has yet to make any payments to victims’ families. He is fighting the judgments through lengthy appeals in both states.
Clancy’s defense
rests its case
BOSTON (AP) -- The defense has rested its case in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting more testimony about her mental state before she strangled her three young children in 2023.
Prosecutors are calling rebuttal witnesses before attorneys make their closing arguments in the trial. Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, does not dispute that she killed the children. But he says the jury should not hold her criminally responsible because she had a rare mental illness called postpartum psychosis.
Prosecutors argue that Clancy planned the killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house.