
The stock rebound continues even as claims for unemployment benefits rise again
CNN
Wall Street continues to rebound on Thursday, shrugging off both the Federal Reserve's intention to soon roll back its massive monetary stimulus and another uptick in weekly jobless claims.
The ongoing debt crisis surrounding Chinese real estate business Evergrande and America's debt ceiling debate also didn't seem to faze investors Thursday: Stocks opened higher and kept adding onto the prior sessions' rally.
At midday the Dow (INDU) was up 1.5%, or about 530 points, while the S&P 500 (SPX) rose 1.3%. The Nasdaq Composite (COMP) climbed 0.9%.

Oregon authorities are investigating a shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Portland that wounded two people federal authorities say are tied to a violent international gang – an incident that renewed questions about the Trump administration’s handling of its immigration crackdown in the city and across the US.

Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.

Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is “protected by absolute immunity” drew immediate pushback from experts who said the legal landscape around a potential prosecution is far more complicated.










