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How major US stock market indexes fared on Monday Stocks closed slightly lower on Wall Street after a listless day of trading that left the market just below its record highs set late last week. Energy stocks, technology companies and banks bucked the downward trend.

After the war, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and built up a diverse career onstage and in British film and television. With their old-fashioned stop-motion animation and lightly anarchic British humor, Park's short films, feature and BBC series gained fans around the world. Two of the films, "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave" won Academy Awards.

Homebuilder D.R. Horton offered to buy a 75 percent stake in the real estate and natural resources developer for $16.25 a share. The nutritional supplement company lowered its forecasts because a switch to new sales tactics is affecting its business. Real estate investment trusts and other high-dividend companies slipped as bond yields rose.

Seattle police are looking for a man they believe sexually assaulted a woman in Ravenna late last month.

The state's moderate Republicans, meeting in Leavenworth, grapple with how to win legislative and local elections against a backdrop of President Trump's unpopularity. A key, nationally important State Senate election comes up this fall in the 45th District on the Eastside.

Lucy Sparrow's "8 Till Late" opened to the public in a 1,200-square-foot space at The Standard hotel on Manhattan's west side on Monday and runs through June 30. Sparrow handmade the 9,000 items in the installation, covering practically everything you might find in the small stores that are synonymous with New York City — there are felt jars of peanut butter and jelly as well as packages of white bread; felt pizza slices and pretzels on the felt grill along with felt hot dogs; felt boxes of detergent... Читать дальше...

This year marks the 142nd annual commencement ceremony at the University of Washington. Let's look back at who the most famous graduates have been.

Seattle released Jake Heaps to make room on the roster for Davis, who was signed Monday after spending time with the Rams, Browns and Broncos. Davis is in his sixth NFL season after entering the league as an undrafted free agent out of Southern Mississippi in 2012.

Apple executives demonstrated the use of Macs to produce VR experiences, though they didn't immediately talk about making a headset to view them. VR has often been described as the next big thing, though so far, the interest appears more among content developers and hardware makers than with everyday users. The announcements follow complaints that Apple has let its Mac computers languish in favor of its better-selling products, namely the iPhone. Apple says its Safari browser will try to guard... Читать дальше...

U.S. stock indexes were edging lower in afternoon trading Monday, sending them slightly below record highs set last week. Phone company stocks were down the most, along with materials and health car companies. Forestar Group surged 12.5 percent after homebuilder D.R. Horton offered to buy a 75 percent stake in the real estate and natural resources developer for $16.25 a share. Loxo Oncology vaulted 49 percent after the drug developer received encouraging results from an experimental drug that targets a rare genetic tumor abnormality. Читать дальше...

Dan Aykroyd is criticizing the director of last year's "Ghostbusters" remake for spending too much money to make the film. Aykroyd says he was "really happy with the movie," but says it cost too much for Sony Pictures to make a sequel.

The handover of about 300 airport towers and other flight tracking centers would be one of the largest transfers of U.S. government assets. Some politically influential business aircraft operators, private pilots, small aircraft manufacturers and medium- and small-sized airports fear airlines will dominate the corporation's board, resulting in higher fees for them and less service. The idea is to remove air traffic control from the vagaries of the government budget process, which has limited the... Читать дальше...

MADRID (AP) — Madrid is gearing up to host an international LGBT pride celebration by installing "inclusive" and "gender equal" traffic signals across the city. Figures of women or girls, identified by skirts and ponytails, started going up on Monday at intersections that previously featured the familiar figure of a man in mid-stride to let pedestrians know when to cross.

CSX shareholders vote to pay $84 million related to CEO hire

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): Stocks are edging lower in midday trading as the market pulls back from its latest record highs set last week. Google parent Alphabet traded over $1,000 a share for the first time. Stocks are edging lower in early trading on Wall Street as the market pulls back from its latest record highs. Google parent Alphabet traded over $1,000 a share for the first time.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Religious hospitals don't have to comply with federal laws protecting pension plans, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that affects retirement benefits for roughly a million workers nationwide. Pension plans are required to be fully funded and insured under federal law, but Congress carved out narrow exemptions for churches and other religious organizations. [...] three federal appeals courts had ruled against the hospitals —Illinois-based Advocate Health Care Network... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that's on the rise. Experts at an American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago, where the results were announced Monday, say it's a first for multiple myeloma and rare for any cancer treatment to have such success. Chemotherapy helps 10 to 30 percent of patients; immune system drugs, 35 to 40 percent at best, and some gene-targeting drugs, 70 to 80 percent, "but you don't get to 100," said Dr. Читать дальше...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Officials in Portugal said Monday they have ordered an investigation into claims that one of the country's most cherished historic monuments was damaged during the shooting of a film by director and former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam. The General Directorate for Cultural Heritage said it is looking into a report by public broadcaster RTP that alleged the recent location shoot for "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" left behind chipped masonry, broken roof tiles and uprooted... Читать дальше...

The studio on Monday said the tickets sold on Sunday turned out to be even higher than it estimated over the weekend. The Patty Jenkins-directed film became the biggest opening for a film directed by a woman and, by the far, the most successful female-led superhero release.

The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Monday that its services index slipped last month to 56.9 from 57.5 in April. Sales and new orders grew more slowly, while a measure of employment showed companies stepped up hiring. Economists forecast growth will reach an annual pace of 3 percent, up from just 1.2 percent in the January-March quarter. The report is likely to keep the Fed on track to lift interest rates at its meeting next week, Lee added.

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Wealthy people employ professionals who seek out financial loopholes and aggressively exploit them. Contributions to retirement accounts are typically deductible, which means workers don't have to pay income tax on the money they put into 401(k)s, 403(b)s and in many cases IRAs. The saver's credit can shave up to $2,000 off the tax bill of low- to middle-income workers, but only about a third of U.S. workers are aware the credit exists, according to a 2016 survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. Читать дальше...