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Longtime bar in Niagara back open with new name, look

NIAGARA, Wis. — Who's Alibi, a bar with new name but a long history in Niagara, has been reopened after getting a refreshed look. The bar at 716 Vine St. was purchased in January 2025 by Gibby and Crystal LaFave and Crystal's mother, Wendy DeClark. The building was originality a ...

Payout after Maduro’s capture puts prediction markets in the spotlight

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The latter is drawing renewed scrutiny into this murky world of speculative, 24/7 transactions. ...

Fed’s Powell: DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens indictment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed's building renovations. The move represents an unprecedented ...

Wall Street rises to records after unemployment rate improves

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks hit records Friday following a mixed report on the U.S. job market, one that may delay another cut to interest rates by the Federal Reserve but does not slam the door on it. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% and topped its prior all-time high set earlier in the ...

Trump brushes off early posting of confidential jobs figures

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unusual move, President Donald Trump posted a graph Thursday night on social media that reflected jobs data from December that weren't supposed to be released until the Labor Department issued the monthly employment report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern. The ...