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The major U.S. stock indexes closed mostly higher Friday as health care company gains outweighed losses in technology and other sectors. Despite the uneven finish, the market ended the week with its best weekly gain since early March. Drug makers and other health companies got a boost after plans announced by the White House to rein in drug prices didn't seem to pose immediate threats to health care company profits. On Friday: The S&P 500 index added 4.65 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,727.72.... Читать дальше...

U.S. stock indexes ended mostly higher Friday as the market closed out its biggest weekly gain since March. Drug makers and other health companies climbed after investors sized up President Donald Trump's latest plans to rein in drug prices and concluded any policy changes didn't pose immediate threats to health care company profits. "All of this will have to go through a year-plus regulatory process, and none of it will have immediate impact," Terry Haines, macro research analyst at Evercore ISI, wrote in a research note Friday. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing a key concern for manufacturers, President Donald Trump instructed his administration to explore negotiations with California on achieving a single fuel economy standard for the nation during a meeting with auto industry executives Friday. The president met with top auto executives to discuss the standards and tasked Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to handle the talks with California officials, according to two people briefed on the meeting. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: Symantec Corp., down $9.66 to $19.52 The security software maker gave weak forecasts and disclosed an internal investigation. Yelp Inc., down $3.73 to $44.02 Investors were disappointed with the online business reviews company's forecasts. Nvidia Corp., down $5.60 to $254.53 The chipmaker had a solid quarter but shed some of its recent gains. Biogen Inc., up $8.39 to $282.39 Drugmakers rose as President Donald Trump announced a series of proposals to limit drug prices.

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Health care companies led U.S. indexes modestly higher on Wall Street, closing out the market's biggest weekly gain since March. Drug makers and other health companies ended broadly higher Friday after President Donald Trump announced plans to rein in drug prices that didn't seem to pose immediate threats to health care company profits. CVS Health rose 3.2 percent and Merck climbed 2.8 percent. Those gains outweighed losses in technology companies. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It began with quiet words from State Department officials: Apply for a new passport immediately. You may soon be going to a country for which ordinary U.S. passports are not valid for travel. Vague as it was, the instruction to two reporters last Friday left little doubt about our mystery destination: North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had visited the capital, Pyongyang, in complete secrecy while he was still CIA chief in early April to set the stage for an unprecedented... Читать дальше...

Seattleites and Pacific Northwesterners love Vietnamese food and the warming weather means it's time to wean ourselves off the piping hot comfort of pho and turn to banh mi.

VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on a Hawaii volcano eruption (all times local): 9:35 a.m. Warnings that Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could shoot boulders and ash out of its summit crater are prompting people to rethink their plans to visit the Big Island. But most of the island is free of volcanic hazards, and local tourism officials hope travelers will recognize it's ready to welcome them. Rachel Smigelski-Theiss is among those who have shifted gears. She had intended to visit Kilauea's summit with her husband and 5-year-old daughter. Читать дальше...

U.S. stock indexes veered mostly higher in late-afternoon trading, on track to extend the market's strong gains for the week. Health care stocks climbed as investors sized up new policy remarks from President Donald Trump. Those gains outweighed losses in technology companies. Energy stocks also declined as crude oil prices closed lower. KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index added 2 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,726 as of 3:32 p.m. Eastern Time. The benchmark index is on track for its best weekly gain... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief lobbyist for AT&T is leaving the company after overseeing a $50,000-per-month contract for President Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen to serve as a political consultant. In a memo to employees, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company made a "big mistake" in hiring Cohen as a political consultant. While everything the company did was legal, Stephenson said that the association with Cohen was "a serious misjudgment." Stephenson noted that the company's reputation... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It began with quiet words from State Department officials: Apply for a new passport immediately. You may soon be going to a country for which ordinary U.S. passports are not valid for travel. Vague as it was, the instruction to two reporters last Friday left little doubt about our mystery destination: North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had visited the capital, Pyongyang, in complete secrecy while he was still CIA chief in early April to set the stage for an unprecedented... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 13 this week to 1,045. At this time a year ago there were 885 active rigs. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes reported Friday that 844 rigs drilled for oil this week and 199 for gas. Two were listed as miscellaneous. Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas added eight rigs, Colorado and Oklahoma each gained three, Alaska added two and Louisiana and West Virginia each gained one. New Mexico declined by four rigs and Wyoming lost one.

VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — Warnings that Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could shoot boulders and ash out of its summit crater are prompting people to rethink their plans to visit the Big Island. But most of the island is free of volcanic hazards, and local tourism officials hope travelers will recognize it's ready to welcome them. Rachel Smigelski-Theiss is among those who have shifted gears. She had intended to visit Kilauea's summit with her husband and 5-year-old daughter. Now they've cancelled their trip. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's long-awaited plan to bring down drug prices, unveiled Friday, will mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of "getting away with murder" and instead focus on increasing private competition and requiring more openness about costs. In Rose Garden remarks at the White House, Trump called his plan the "most sweeping action in history to lower the price of prescription drugs for the American people." But it does not include his campaign... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's plan to reduce drug prices (all times local): 2:45 p.m. President Donald Trump and his health secretary are laying out new proposals designed to reduce drug prices, including a requirement that drugmakers disclose the cost of their medicines in television advertisements. The idea is one of many old and new proposals outlined in a White House blueprint unveiled in a long-awaited speech by the president. Under the plan, Health Secretary Alex... Читать дальше...

U.S. stock indexes veered mostly higher in choppy trading Friday afternoon as investors sifted through the latest batch of corporate earnings news. Gains in health care stocks outweighed losses in technology companies. Industrial stocks also helped lift the market. Crude oil prices declined. KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index added 1 point, or 0.1 percent, to 2,724 as of 2:41 p.m. Eastern Time. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 55 points, or 0.2 percent, to 24,795. The Nasdaq fell 15 points... Читать дальше...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a challenge to Seattle's first-in-the-nation law allowing drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize. The city's 2015 measure requires companies that hire or contract with drivers of taxis, for-hire transportation companies and app-based services to bargain with them on issues such as pay and working conditions if a majority show they want to be represented. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's plan to reduce drug prices (all times local): 2:20 p.m. President Donald Trump is launching what he says will be the "most sweeping action in history to lower the price of prescription drugs for the American people." Trump is outlining his administration's long-awaited plan in a Rose Garden speech. He says the plan will lead to tougher negotiations, more competition and much lower prices at the pharmacy counter and will begin to take effect soon. Читать дальше...

BEIJING (AP) — A peace agreement with North Korea will go far toward easing the impoverished nation's chronic food security woes, the head of the United Nations' World Food Program said Friday, a month before President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a historic summit in Singapore. Fresh from a four-day visit to the North, Executive Director David Beasley also told The Associated Press that he detected a "certain degree of euphoria" among the North Koreans... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks has told employees to let anyone use the restroom, even if they haven't bought anything, as it reviews its policies and tries to restore its reputation after the arrest of two black men at a coffee shop in Philadelphia. The coffee chain it wants all customers coming in "to feel welcome" and it's conducting a three-month review of its guidelines. That follows comments from Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn't want people to feel "less than" if they were refused access. Читать дальше...

A line of children's bath toys are being recalled because small parts can break off and pose a choking hazard. Other recalled consumer products this week include go-karts and bicycle components. Here's a more detailed look: BATH TOYS DETAILS: Munchkin's Waterpede bath toys. The one piece multicolored centipede-shaped toy allows water to be scooped from the top, and flows through the chambers of the bottom. The bath toy is 100 percent plastic and is for children six months and up. They were sold at Babies R Us... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told leaders of the world's top automakers on Friday that he wants to see more cars built in the United States as his administration weighs plans to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration. Trump said in a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House that he intended to discuss environmental controls, fuel efficiency standards and the "manufacturing of millions of more cars within the United States, for Michigan... Читать дальше...

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk says he's almost completed a tunnel under a Los Angeles suburb to test a transportation system that would scoot commuters underground on electric sleds. Musk tweeted Thursday that, pending regulatory approvals, free rides will be offered to the public in a few months. He also posted an Instagram video of the tunnel. Last year, the Hawthorne City Council approved an approximately 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) test tunnel from Musk's SpaceX rocket plant to a point east of Los Angeles International Airport. Читать дальше...

An intentional cyberattack and suspicious activity by foreign computers preceded the crash of a website that was reporting results in a Tennessee county's primary elections, a cyber-security firm said Friday. The Knox County elections website suffered the attack, and "a suspiciously large number of foreign countries" accessed the site on May 1, according to the report by Sword & Shield Enterprise Security. The firm hired by the county said those actions were among the likely causes of the crash... Читать дальше...

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The national park around Hawaii's Kilauea was off-limits to visitors Friday for fear the volcano will blow its top in the coming days and hurl ash and boulders the size of refrigerators miles into the air. "If it goes up, it will come down," said Charles Mandeville, volcano hazards coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey. "You don't want to be underneath anything that weighs 10 tons when it's coming out at 120 mph (193 kph)." An explosive eruption could also ground planes... Читать дальше...