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How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 9/5/2025

3:25 PM on Friday, September 5

U.S. stocks wobbled lower as Wall Street questioned whether the U.S. job market has slowed by just enough to get the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to help the economy, or by so much that a downturn may be on the way

President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

US and EU plan to discuss new Russia sanctions: What could be next for Putin?

3:22 PM on Friday, September 5

European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions

FILE - Correctional Officer Jose Sandoval inspects one of the more than 2,000 cell phones confiscated from inmates at California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville, Calif., April 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signals

3:12 PM on Friday, September 5

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

Gov. Brian Kemp speaks before signing the budget bill at the Capitol in Atlanta on Crossover Day, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Arvin Temkar /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Georgia sends troops to DC in sign that Trump's policing push will continue

1:09 PM on Friday, September 5

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

Firefighters and sheriff's deputies are seen responding to the scene of a deadly plane crash in suburban Denver in on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Greenwood Village, Colo. (Deborah Takahara/Douglas County Sheriff's Office via AP)

2 people die in small plane crash near suburban Denver airport

10:44 AM on Friday, September 5

Officials say two people died when a small plane crashed and caught on fire in an industrial office park in suburban Denver

FILE - A Bay Area Rapid Transit train approaches a BART station in Daly City, Calif., Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

San Francisco Bay Area commuter trains shut down for 7 hours because of computer issue

10:33 AM on Friday, September 5

A regional commuter rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area that shut down all its trains because of a computer issue has resumed service

FILE - The Google logo sits on the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., July 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case

10:19 AM on Friday, September 5

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services

This frame grab from a video shows the second of two projectiles the Israeli army fired in quick succession at a stairwell outside Nasser Hospital, just minutes after an initial round of attacks hit the building in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (UGC via AP)

AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital

9:12 AM on Friday, September 5

Associated Press reporting into an Israeli attack that killed 22 people at a Gaza Strip hospital, including five journalists, raises questions about Israel’s rationale for the attack and the way it was carried out

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2020, file photo, the Charging Bull stands in Manhattan's financial district in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Stocks wobble as Wall Street wrangles with whether the job market is too weak

11:47 PM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. stocks wobbled lower as Wall Street questioned whether the U.S. job market has slowed by just enough to get the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to help the economy, or by so much that a downturn may be on the way

People walk near the site where a tourist streetcar derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Most of those killed in Lisbon streetcar derailment were foreigners, police say

11:16 PM on Thursday, September 4

Police in Portugal say that 11 of the 16 people killed when a streetcar derailed in the capital Lisbon were foreigners

ADDS NAMES: Emmalynn Lytal, center, points to a photo button of her sister, Kellyane Lytal, as she and other family of children who died at Camp Mystic visit with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, before he signed camp safety bills into law, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

New Texas laws ban youth cabins in floodways, require camp safety plans

11:04 PM on Thursday, September 4

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing

FILE - Commuters walk past the New York Stock Exchange, April 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

US hiring stalls with employers reluctant to expand in an economy grown increasingly erratic

4:04 PM on Thursday, September 4

The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies

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