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How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 9/17/2025

2:21 PM on Wednesday, September 17

U.S. stocks churned between gains and losses, but they ultimately remained near their record levels

Supervisor Joel Engardio, second left, hugs his husband, Lionel Hsu, as supporters applaud after Engardio lost recall election in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Voters oust San Francisco supervisor who turned a coastal highway into a car-free park

11:51 AM on Wednesday, September 17

A San Francisco supervisor has been recalled after he successfully pushed to turn part of a coastal highway into a car-free park

New Jersey governor signs human composting bill as alternative to burial and cremation

11:03 AM on Wednesday, September 17

New Jersey has become the 14th state to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation

A collapsed beach cottage sits in waves on the shore Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, Buxton, NC. (Cape Hatteras National Seashore via AP)

Another beachfront stilt house collapses into the surf on the Outer Banks

10:52 AM on Wednesday, September 17

The Atlantic Ocean has claimed another beach house on the fragile Outer Banks

FILE - A home sits near the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant, April 14, 2025, in Point Pleasant, W.Va. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

National Academy of Sciences rebuffs Trump EPA's effort to undo regulations fighting climate change

10:41 AM on Wednesday, September 17

The National Academy of Sciences says evidence supporting a 2009 U.S. government finding that climate change threatens public health is “beyond scientific dispute” and that evidence supporting that finding has only grown stronger

FILE - In this March 5, 2012, file photo, consumer credit cards are posed in North Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

What the Fed rate cut will mean for your finances

10:30 AM on Wednesday, September 17

The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nine months

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine reviewing recent events at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and implications for children's health on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Fired CDC chief Susan Monarez warns senators that RFK Jr. is endangering public health

8:07 AM on Wednesday, September 17

Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Susan Monarez is warning senators America’s public health system is headed to a “dangerous place” under Health Secretary Robert F

Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City by foot and vehicles, carrying their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest: Israeli military presses on with its new ground offensive on Gaza City

1:05 AM on Wednesday, September 17

Israeli forces are pressing on with a new ground offensive in Gaza City as strikes overnight across the Palestinian territory killed at least 16 people, including women and children

FILE - White House national security adviser Mike Waltz speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, on Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Delays to Mike Waltz's UN bid make it all but impossible he's in the role for a major world meeting

10:13 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Mike Waltz almost certainly will not make his debut as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during a gathering of world leaders next week

Waymo's robotaxi expansion will get a Lyft in Nashville next year

3:34 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Robotaxi leader Waymo's driverless vehicles will begin transporting passengers in Nashville, Tennessee, next year with Lyft instead of its recent ride-hailing partner Uber

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Pentagon says troops can only be exempt from shaving their facial hair for a year

2:50 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service

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