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The S&P 500 ended the week at 5,234.18, up 2.3%; the Dow Jones at 39,475.90, up 1.98%; the tech-heavy Nasdaq at 16,428.82, up 2.9%; and the small caps Russell 2000 at 2,072.00, up 1.60%.

City where police killed Mike Brown in 2015 was defendant in class-action suit by plaintiffs detained over inability to pay city fines

Moody’s cuts its outlook on China’s credit rating, while trading in smaller stocks in London is hit by systems problems

Other lives: Academic pharmacist and pharmaceutical microbiologist who specialised in understanding how bacteria respond to antibiotics

Rex Heuermann, charged over deaths of three women on Long Island, speaks briefly as he bids to reclaim 280 guns seized by police

Nearly 6,000 years ago, our ancestors climbed arid rocky outcrops in what is now the Nigerian Sahara and carved spectacularly intricate, larger-than-life renditions of giraffes into the exposed sandstone. The remarkably detailed Dabous giraffe rock art petroglyphs are among many ancient petroglyphs featuring giraffes across Africa – a testament to…

Bailon was most recently the executive editor at KERA, Dallas’s NPR affiliate. Prior to KERA, he spent nearly 15 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A Russian rocket body plunged back to Earth near southern Australia on Monday night (Aug. 7), dazzling and alarming skywatchers.

A Russian rocket body fell back to Earth near southern Australia on Monday night (Aug. 7), putting on quite a show for observers in the region.