Today in History

Today is Monday, June 24, the 175th day of 2019. There are 190 days left in the year.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Toy Story 4" brought the box office to life with a $118 million opening weekend after a three-week slump of underperforming sequels, but the Pixar film's below-expectations debut...

NEW YORK (AP) — H&M is set to kick off a series of workshops and training this fall for thousands of its employees at its more than 500 North American stores aimed at addressing unconscious...

BRISTOL, Vt. (AP) — An ash tree-killing pest has been found in a sixth Vermont county.

Vermont Public Radio reports that the emerald ash borer was discovered in a tree in the town of Bristol...

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — Johnie Perryman retired to Clairton 12 years ago, hoping to settle into a cheap home near an old friend in Pittsburgh.

With a wide front porch and oversize windows, the...

CHICAGO (AP) — An energetic Mick Jagger skipped, spun, sprinted and pranced Friday night as the Rolling Stones launched their North American tour at Chicago's Soldier Field.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to demonstrate a united front Thursday in the uphill effort to get a replacement for the North American...

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S&P 500 index closes at record high as stock rally continues

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped a broad rally for stocks Thursday by driving the S&P 500 index to an all-time high....

NYKOPING, Sweden (AP) — School's out for summer and Swedish lawyer Pia Bjorstrand, her husband and their two sons are shouldering backpacks, ready to board the first of many trains on a...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The artifacts in a new exhibit tracing four centuries of black history in Virginia range from the painful to the poignant: leg shackles and chains used during slavery, a...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to ratify a new free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, making it the first of the three countries to gain...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — Kellogg Co. is cutting 150 salaried jobs across North America as part of the previously announced sale of its cookie and fruit snack businesses.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming boasts that it is home to North America's largest, most technologically advanced center to train the petroleum engineers of the future with a new...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation is reminding Vermonters to be on the lookout for elder financial abuse.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Learning to fly airplanes was the best way Ray Atkins knew to get to Alaska so he could go hunting and fishing. That was 50 years ago.

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Washington next week to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss the ratification of the new North American trade agreement...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Baby Shark Live" is set to launch a 100-city tour in North America this fall.

It is inspired by the children's song whose dance video has generated nearly 3 billion views...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling over 1.3 million vehicles mainly in North America to fix rear suspension and transmission control software problems.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials say 15 threatened eastern indigo snakes have been released in northern Florida.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission news release...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Mark Gordon has appointed eight members of a new advisory group that will develop recommendations to improve state policies related to big game migration on lands that...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After nearly 20 years and a dozen films, the current manifestation of X-Men movies is going out with a whimper.

Scorched by poor reviews, the $200 million "Dark Phoenix"...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Slava Fetisov called Vladimir Tarasenko midway through the second round of the playoffs to deliver an important message.

"I said, 'Listen, you've got a good chance to win...

GEORGETOWN, Colo. (AP) — The highway leading to the top of Mount Evans west of Denver is open for the summer.

Colorado Department of Transportation officials say the road opened Friday...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis officials have canceled meetings of city employees segregated by race to mark the 400th anniversary of slavery in North America.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Riot Games has named John Needham its new global head of League of Legends esports, putting him in charge of the world's most popular competitive video game and its 13...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones are getting some company on their North American tour.

The rockers announced Wednesday they'll be joined by an eclectic group of guest artists as the No...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to a Wisconsin company to repair five Mississippi River locks and dams in the region where western...

PARIS (AP) — After years of turmoil for FIFA, Gianni Infantino this week will get a fresh four-year presidential term to lead world soccer in relative calm.

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) — The century old flower company FTD is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a rough Valentine's Day and will break the business into...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest iteration of the Godzilla franchise took over the top spot from "Aladdin" and roared louder than Elton John at the weekend box office, but it still left a notably...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The momentum that supporters have tried to build for a new North American trade deal has run into some Trump turbulence.

The Trump administration had taken steps in recent...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff's office is mourning the loss of its longest-service K-9 officer.

The Greenville County Sheriff's Office held a last call ceremony Friday for...

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — It is near the peak of double-crested cormorant nesting season, but federal biologists have yet to see a single egg on a Columbia River island that once hosted the largest...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's vow to impose new tariffs on Mexican imports risks sabotaging not just his drive to forge more favorable trade deals but also a U.S. economy that he says...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exasperated by reports of a flood of illegal border crossings, President Donald Trump summoned his top immigration advisers to demand action. Responding to his mounting concern,...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — With Burning Man three months away, organizers are still waiting for permits and decisions by U.S. land managers that could reshape the counterculture festival in northern...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio City Council has approved about $10 million in incentives in hopes of luring Toyota to bring a $392 million upgrade to a truck plant there.

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that President Donald Trump is a "great friend of the Canadian people" and that the U.S.-Canada relationship has "never been...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two peregrine falcon chicks that hatched earlier this month atop a 12-story building in Topeka have been given metal identification bands to help track their...

ST. ANDREWS, New Brunswick (AP) — A group that advocates for the conservation of Atlantic salmon says the North American catch has hit an all-time low, and signs are mixed about the salmon...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his government is beginning the process of ratifying the new North American trade agreement.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia state regulators are seeking public comments on a new area code in the southeastern part of the state as the 757 code runs out of new numbers.

KEMMERER, Wyo. (AP) — A labor union official says he's confident miners in Wyoming will keep their jobs after a coal mine changes ownership.

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other state officials have issued a "mobility challenge" designed to attract new automotive technology for display and use during the 2020...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Moviegoers voted with their dollars and chose the familiar over the new this Memorial Day weekend. The Walt Disney Co.'s live-action remake of "Aladdin" crushed the competition...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard crews are searching for a small airplane that crashed hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida shortly after it was approached by U.S. military...

Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer is leaving the competitive video game circuit to oversee esports competition for Fortnite publisher Epic Games.