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Richly valued U.S. stocks are leaving investors with little tolerance for disappointment, raising the stakes ahead of a week in which two more technology and growth giants are set to report. Strong reports from Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet on Thursday helped propel the S&P 500 to its biggest weekly gain since early November following its first 5% pullback of the year. The S&P 500 is up about 7% in 2024 and some 24% since late October. But investors punished a disappointing forecast from Meta Platforms. The Facebook parent’s stock tumbled over 10% on Thursday after its report. A sales…

Chicago police have identified a suspect who they believe shot and killed Officer Luis Huesca last week, as the manhunt enters its seventh day on Sunday.An arrest warrant was issued Friday for Xavier L. Tate Jr., a 22-year-old man who resides in Aurora, the Chicago Police Department said.Tate faces a first-degree murder charge for the April 21 shooting that unfolded just before 3 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 56th Street in the Gage Park neighborhood.Tate remains at large and police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPUTY DIES FOLLOWING MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT STATION, SHERIFF’S…

The US Federal Reserve is highly likely to keep interest rates unchanged later this week, as policymakers contend with a recent uptick in inflation that has sharply cut the chance of a summer start to interest rate cuts. The Fed’s decision to hike interest rates and then hold them at a 23-year high has helped to significantly lower elevated inflation, although it remains stuck firmly above the US central bank’s long-term target of two percent. Since the start of this year, the Fed’s favored inflation measure has actually accelerated, hitting an annual rate of 2.7 percent in March, while economic…

A high school student who murdered two Dartmouth professors in their own home in a bizarre plot to rob them and move to Australia has been granted parole after spending his adult life behind bars.James Parker, now nearly 40, was 16 when he and Robert Tulloch convinced Half and Susanne Zantop they were conducting a survey on climate issues in 2001. After the Zantops invited the two teenagers into their New Hampshire home, Tulloch stabbed Half and allegedly instructed Parker to stab Susanne. The boys did not know the couple and chose their house because it looked expensive and was surrounded…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a surprise visit, where he is expected to meet senior officials to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving software and permission to transfer data overseas, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The U.S. electric vehicle maker rolled out Full Self-Driving, or FSD, the most autonomous version of its Autopilot software, four years ago but has yet to make it available in China, its second-largest market globally, despite customers urging it to do so. Musk said this month Tesla may make FSD available to customers in China “very…

A measure to reform California’s crime referendum that downgrades penalties for petty theft and drug possession will be on the ballot in November after garnering an “unheard of” number of signatures. The 2014 law in question, Proposition 47, reclassified several felonies, including retail and property theft, as misdemeanors. Under Prop 47, petty theft of goods valued under $950 is classified as a misdemeanor, even for multiple offenses. It also took a broad swath of narcotics possession offenses that were previously felonies and converted them to misdemeanors.But a ballot initiative to amend Prop 47, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, secured…

One of the mothers of three Kansas City Chiefs fans found frozen in their friend’s snowy Missouri backyard after a January NFL watch party said “some charges” are warranted in her son’s death, though police have stated they do not suspect foul play.”There’s no information being released, even though the police are still working from my understanding on the case,” Jennifer Marquez, mother of 37-year-old David Harrington, told Fox News Digital. “Of course, any family is going to be frustrated. We were warned that it would take a while, but it’s so hard not having any information.”Harrington; Clayton McGeeney, 36;…

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Chris Hansen, former host of “To Catch a Predator,” investigated a fentanyl fencing operation outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco and spoke to Fox News about the crisis that previously led the feds to recommend government employees work from home.Hansen, now host of “Takedown” on TruBlu, followed a retired undercover detective named Elmore who told him the trade of the controlled substance abounds in the area of the federal building, but is difficult to detect when it is smuggled across the border.Hansen noted a fence had to be constructed around the federal building because of the drug…