This is a Test from PR Newswire
Sunday, March 13, 2022 12:04 PM

Market news:

• NY spree suspect told cops: I had 'doozy of a day' Mar 15, 2022 05:02 PM
  
  • NEW YORK - A man accused of killing four people and wounding four others in a 28-hour rampage told police he had cancer, lamented his family life, said he wished police had shot him and declared he had experienced "a doozy of a day," authorities said in a court document released Tuesday.
  • Meanwhile, a lawyer entered Gelman's not-guilty plea for him in a subway stabbing.
  • Police tackled Gelman and arrested him on a subway train beneath Times Square.

  • Bahrain king clamps down; 3 dead as unrest spreads Mar 15, 2022 04:43 PM
    
    • MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency Tuesday to quell a Shiite uprising, as clashes spread through the capital and surrounding villages in a showdown that drew in the region's major powers and splintered along its main sectarian faultlines.
    • At least two Bahrainis and a Saudi soldier died, and hundreds of protesters were injured by shotgun blasts and clubs.
    • A force of more than 1,000 Saudi-led troops expanded to defend the Sunni monarchy; Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah denounced the presence of foreign soldiers; and Washington feared for its main naval base in the Gulf.

    • Japan disaster another worry for global economy Mar 15, 2022 04:24 PM
      
      • Japan's earthquake and nuclear crisis have put pressure on the already fragile global economy, squeezed supplies of goods from computer chips to auto parts and raised fears of higher interest rates.
      • Japan's Nikkei average lost 10 percent, and the Dow Jones industrials fell so quickly after the opening bell that the stock exchange invoked a special rule to smooth volatility.
      • If Japan's infrastructure doesn't get rebuilt quickly enough, Japanese companies may transfer production overseas to pick up the slack, Rea added.

      • Japan works to contain nuclear threat after quake Mar 15, 2022 04:14 PM
        
        • SOMA, Japan - A nuclear power plant damaged by fire and explosions emitted a burst of radiation Tuesday, panicking an already edgy Japan and leaving the government struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami.
        • The troubles cascaded Tuesday at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where there have already been explosions at two reactor buildings since Friday's disasters.
        • In a nationally televised address, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation had seeped from four of the plant's six reactors.

        • House votes 3-week stopgap federal spending bill Mar 15, 2022 03:57 PM
          
          • WASHINGTON - The House Tuesday passed a measure blending $6 billion in budget cuts with enough money to keep the government running for an additional three weeks.
          • The measure would buy additional time for talks between Capitol Hill Republicans and the Obama administration on a bill to fund the day-to-day operations of the government through the end of September.
          • The $6 billion cut by the measure includes many items that the Obama administration and Democrats agree can be axed.

          More news