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NBC News
7 hours ago
- NBC News
Family desperate for answers after New York man Jared Oswald's May disappearance
'We choose faith, and we choose hope,' Esther Kwong told Dateline. 'He will come home.' Esther's brother, Jared Oswald, vanished on May 19. The 50-year-old was last spotted in Rochester, New York. 'He would never do this,' Esther said. Jared, affectionately known as 'Bear' by his family, grew up in Palmyra, New York, the youngest of seven siblings. 'He was just a big little boy, and that's what stuck,' Esther said of her brother's nickname. Esther says the siblings had a very religious upbringing. 'Very good Christian household,' she said. 'We had good parents with really honest, clean values.' The tight-knit family was raised in a big white house with trails, woods, and snakes. 'We were country kids,' she said. 'We were just doing all sorts of things outside, which was wonderful. We were inseparable.' That sibling bond extended into adulthood. Esther says she lives just five minutes away from her baby brother, his wife, and their young son. 'He's not shy, but he's more quiet,' Esther said. 'If you're in a conversation, he's very smart and educated, but he's not going to be the loud voice at the gathering.' Esther says she and Jared bonded over fitness—something he takes very seriously. 'He started bodybuilding when he was like 12 or 13,' she said. 'We're very active people.' She says she last spoke to her brother on Friday, May 16. 'I probably spoke with him about 40 minutes on the phone — just shooting the breeze,' Esther recalled. Then, on the morning of May 19, Esther says she received multiple calls from Jared. 'He had called me around 7:11 a.m., and because I was reading my Bible, I had my phone on Do not Disturb,' she explained. 'He called me again around 7:14 a.m. I didn't see them.' Esther says she checked her phone around 7:30 a.m. and called her brother back, but he didn't answer. 'He did not return my call.' Esther assumed Jared was on his way to work at the time and would call her back later — until she got a concerning message in their family group chat. 'One of my older brothers, who owns the business that my little brother works for, he texted our family,' she said. 'He said, 'Has anyone talked to Bear today? He didn't show up for work.'' Esther says her brother would never miss a day of work. 'We decided as a family right around 11 a.m. to call 911 immediately because for Bear not to go to work — that's so out of character for him,' she said. The Rochester Police Department is investigating Jared's disappearance. Dateline spoke with Captain Greg Bello, who says Jared was last seen on May 19 when he left his house on Harding Road in Charlotte, a neighborhood in Rochester. Security footage last captured him that morning at Turning Point Park, not far from his home. Esther says it's a park Jared went to often. 'So, for him to go to the park frequently was normal, but not when he had to go to work. That would never happen,' she said. Captain Bello says the search has been focused on that park. 'We've conducted multiple searches throughout the park using different technology,' he said. 'We were down there yesterday with some of our rope teams that were down there checking along an embankment. We've checked a few different places along the park, pretty exhaustively, and unfortunately, we haven't located him.' When asked if foul play is suspected in Jared's disappearance, Bello said it's too early to say. 'It's under investigation by detectives from our criminal investigation unit,' he said. 'We don't believe any criminality at this point.' Esther says the family and Jared's friends have been conducting their own searches. 'He has hundreds of friends that he would consider good friends,' she said. 'They were taking off work. They were at my house. We had 420 people show up for his search.' But they have found no sign of him, something that has left them all confused. 'We're all baffled because my brother would never just not contact us in any situation in his life,' she said. 'He's the baby, and he absolutely has contact with his family daily.' Esther believes her brother is still out there and has a message for her baby Bear: 'I want him to know that his family loves him unconditionally. There's nothing that could separate our love from him.' Jared is 5'8' and weighs 175 lbs. He has dirty blond hair and blue eyes. 'He has beautiful sparkling blue eyes,' Esther said. He was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, a green shirt, and blue jeans.
Daily Record
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Kings of Leon singer's 'freak accident' causes cancellation of UK tour
Caleb Followill suffered a painful injury and shared an emotional message online, announcing the cancellation of the Kings of Leon UK and European tour dates. Kings of Leon have announced the cancellation of all of their upcoming UK and European shows, as lead singer Caleb Followill posted a heartfelt message to the band's fans, revealing that he is injured and cannot perform. The band were set for several UK dates this summer. Frontman Caleb said: "Hello to everyone out there, especially our European fans that are preparing to come and see us this summer. Unfortunately, I regret to inform you that those shows will have to be cancelled due to a freak accident that happened the other day. "I broke my foot pretty bad when playing with my kids," he said. "It was pretty gnarly and I will spare all the details. We are fortunate enough to have some great doctors here in Nashville that gave me emergency surgery." The singer continued: "I am on the mend but they told me that I can't be on my feet or travelling for the next eight weeks or so. It is a big bummer man, we were so excited. We were preparing for a long time." Caleb added: "In the meantime we are going to do whatever work we can while I have these limitations. Exciting things are coming. I know this isn't what people want to hear and it isn't the message I want to be sending." He ended his message: "Wish us luck," before showing his foot in a large cast. The music legends were due to perform at Newcastle's Come Together Festival and Portsmouth's Victorious Festival. They were also set to play in Cardiff and Lytham Festival in Lancashire, reported the Mirror. Kings of Leon were also to play in Europe included dates in Paris, Madrid and Lisbon. Brothers Caleb, Jared and Nathan Followill along with cousin Marrow Followill make up the iconic rock band. They have been on the music scene since 2003, topping the charts in the UK six times with their albums and with their huge Number One hit single Sex on Fire in 2008. During their past stint in the UK, the band hinted at an unexpected feud with fellow American band The Killers. They have been around for a similar amount of time - landing on the music scene in 2004 with all seven of their albums to date reaching Number in the UK, but they have never topped the UK singles chart. Caleb and Jared appeared on The One Show and took an unexpected swipe at their fellow Americans. Asked if they ever play unreleased tracks to fans before the release date, Jared told hosts Alex Jones and Roman Kemp that he does sometimes test out new material on unsuspecting members of the public. He said: 'You can't let the cat out of the bag too much. So I'll sneak it on in, like, an Uber or at a party or something. You put the aux on and just play a new song. And it's a good way to get boots on the ground intel.' The musician then smirked: 'If they think it's good I'll tell them after 'Maybe that was us.' And if they don't like it, I'll tell them it's the new Killers song.' Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
S&P 500 jumps 2% on EU tariff delay, consumer confidence data
All three of the major indexes (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) closed higher thanks to a delay in a 50% tariff on goods from the EU and upbeat consumer confidence data. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre recaps the action at the close. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. We're going to start this week off in the green rally mode. Of course we had that consumer confidence report this morning, a rebound, that helps. The US EU tariff reprieve, that helps. Uh, rallying global bonds, the bounce we saw in the JGBs, Japanese government bonds all added up, got the Dow up about 740 points. The S&P 500, your broad gauge, tacking on more than 2%, and the Nasdaq adds 2 and a half percent in today's trade. Now to Jared for a closer look at today's sector action. Thank you, Josh. Uh, let's check out the YFi interactive here. We are closing at the highs of the day. This is a Dow right here. Good for 740 points. Uh, not quite 2% here, but the Nasdaq exceeding that 2 and a half percent up on the day. And there's another market up at the close, at the highs of the day. Finally, here's the S&P 500 a little bit less than that 2.05%, a very similar looking chart. By the way, these are the best days in the market since May 12th. So that's over two weeks. And we can also see some of the risk on action in the VIX, which is going the opposite way. Uh, lower VIX usually, uh, concurrent with a rising stock market, and that's what we saw today back below the 20 mark. And we can also take a look at the 10 and 30 year T-bond yields. Uh, here's the 10 year T-note yield. That was down seven basis points to 4.43%. And the 30 year, as I've been talking about all today, down below 5% again, down about nine basis points. Uh, also, real quick, US dollar index up just a little bit off of those lows, pretty close to three year lows. So that's an important development as well. Here is the sector action. Everything in the green led by consumer discretionary, led by tech. Those were the only two out performers, but don't count out industrials, financials, materials. Those are on the top rows as well, up over one and three quarters of a percent. And you can really see the strength of the market, especially in the tech sphere, on this Nasdaq 100 heat map, where we have Tesla up 7%, Broadcom up 3%, uh, Pinduoduo, uh, bad earnings report there. That's not it. Pinduoduo, uh, soft sales, 13.64% down on the day. Looking at China real quick, that was another kind of sore spot, but you're not going to see a lot of red like this on most of the other boards. We can look at the Dow. We can look at, uh, the Dow transports. Those were just the industrials. Everything in the green here, United Airlines, Delta Airlines up, almost 5%, 3% respectively. And then we can take a look at our leaders as well. So a couple things didn't work today. I already pointed out China, cannabis, and emerging markets, not so good. But Ark Innovation Fund, uh, we'll take a peek at that in a second. Also the MAG seven, also the chip trade, and small caps. So pretty broad base of US based assets looking good today. And I'll just close on this. This is the Ark Innovation Fund. You can out Tesla. Most of these are smaller names. Shopify up 5%, Hood up 4 and a half percent. So all around the tech sphere looking pretty bullish today. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow fall after Trump threatens new tariffs
US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) close Friday's session in the red, all three of the major market indexes ending the trading week by over 2% lower. Market Domination Overtime host Julie Hyman and Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre recap the day's market and sector reactions to President Trump's latest tariff threats against the European Union and Apple (AAPL). To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. There's the closing bell on Wall Street. And now it's market domination overtime. We're going to be joined by Jared Blickre in just a moment to get us up to speed on the details from today's session. Let's start with the major averages here. We did see a down day for all three major averages, but not down nearly as much as it was this morning when we first woke up to news that President Trump was sort of ramping up the rhetoric on the EU, talking about imposing new tariffs of 50% there. And taking aim at Apple, talking about 25% tariffs on the iPhone maker on iPhones imported into the US. Later in the day during taking questions from reporters, he also put Samsung in that bucket in terms of phones made by that company. All of that said, perhaps markets not taking it seriously unless he signs somewhere on the dotted line to impose these tariffs. The Dow still finishing the day down though, by about 256 points, almost half of 1%. The S&P 500 down about two-thirds of 1%. And the NASDAQ Composite off by 1%. Jared's got a closer look at the action. Hey Jared. Thank you, Julie. If I recall Monday, we woke up to some bad news that day too. Managed to claw back the losses, but I'll tell you what, this week has been the worst week for most of the markets we're looking at since the beginning of April. That was liberation day week. Here's the NASDAQ down about 2 and a half percent. Not a disaster, but S&P 500 down a little bit more. And the Dow just off about two and a half percent as well. I had the VIX on my radar today because it spiked up. It had the biggest spike up in about six weeks. It is off of those highs, well off those highs. So it rejected the 25 level, but we are back again against we are back over 20. So that's something I'm going to be keeping an eye on. Here's a look at bond market volatility. We only get one quote at the end of the day. And you can see that is ticking down from the high that we had earlier in the week. And let me just show you the 30-year because that has been a source of contention for the risk markets. Potentially, it's been above 5% all week long. And it's drifted up, it's drifted down, but still holding above that big 5% mark. And meanwhile, the US dollar index has slid to the lows of the week. Here's a year to date. You can see it is not at the year's lows, but it's getting pretty close there. So that's another thing we're going to keep an eye on next week, but starting Tuesday, not Monday, because we will be off air for the Memorial Day holiday. Here's a sector action, utilities, staples, energy, and real estate in the green. So kind of a defensive setup for some of these sectors in the green. Tech, the biggest loser on the day, down over 1%. Here's the weekly totals, energy, and tech down the most real estate, discretionary, and financials also underperforming. And let's take a look at the NASDAQ 100 for the week. Google Alphabet is a standout up 1.4% in the middle, but Apple down 7.6%. A lot of these stocks like Tesla down 3%, a lot of these stocks having their worst week also since liberation day. I want to show you what's going on with my leaders, and I'll close out here. Bitcoin is the exception. That risk market has been hitting all-time highs, 110, 111,000. It's backed off of that. But to the downside, chip stocks, home builders, and solar having some pretty bad price action this week, 5 to 10% down. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Newsweek
5 days ago
- General
- Newsweek
A Memorial Day Song for the Ages
Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the interpretation of facts and data. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. It's a day Paul Monti will never forgot. The day he got the news military parents dread: His 30-year-old son, Jared, was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan in 2006. Paul instantly joined the ranks of a club no one chooses to be a part: He was a Gold Star parent. Paul didn't know what to do or say when he got the news, or how to process his grief. A few months later, on his first Veterans Day visit to his son's gravesite at the Massachusetts National Cemetery, he noticed something strange: There wasn't a flag on display near any of the 78,000 graves in the cemetery. Not one. The flags weren't there because the cemetery ground crews complained the flags made it too hard to cut the cemetery's grass. Paul, upon hearing that news, did what any Gold Star parent would do: He fought the Department of Veterans Affairs until the rule was changed. But this Gold Star dad's mission had just begun. He launched Operation Flags for Vets, an organization dedicated to placing flags on every grave at the Massachusetts National Cemetery on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. During the organization's first ceremony on Memorial Day of 2011, an army of volunteers adorned 62,000 graves with flags. Flags fly at grave markers in Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne on May 24, 2014. Flags fly at grave markers in Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne on May 24, 2014. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Paul was interviewed later that day on the national radio show Here and Now, fighting back tears as he told stories about his deceased son, including one about a new kitchen set Jared and his Fort Bragg Army pals purchased for their home, only to give it away. "One day his buddies came home and the kitchen set was missing," Paul recalled. "They asked him where it was, and Jared said, 'Well, I was over at one of my soldier's houses and his kids were eatin' on the floor, so I figured they needed the kitchen set more than we did.' And so the $700 kitchen set disappeared. That's what he did." His son was a man who didn't crave attention. "All of his medals went in a sock drawer," Paul said. "No one ever saw them; he didn't want to stand out." In 2009, his son Jared posthumously received the highest commendation any American soldier can be awarded: the Congressional Medal of Honor. But the most powerful part of Paul's story revolved around his son's truck. Why he didn't sell it. And why he still drove it. "What can I tell you? It's him," he explained. "It's got his DNA all over it. I love driving it because it reminds me of him, though I don't need the truck to remind me of him. I think about him every hour of every day." Paul shared details of his son's Dodge 4x4 Ram 1500 truck adorned with decals, including the 10th Mountain Division, an American flag and a "Go Army" decal. Then came the most emotional part of the interview. "When you lose your child you've lost your future," he lamented. "And I think that's why so many Gold Star parents drive their children's trucks. Because they have to hold on." I'll never forget that interview because I was listening to it on a sunny Memorial Day back in 2011 in a Walmart parking lot in my hometown, unable to get out of my SUV because I was crying. Crying like I used to cry when I was a child. Crying as if I'd just lost my child. I wasn't the only one sitting alone in my car crying that Memorial Day. Nashville songwriter Connie Harrington was in her car listening to the story, too. Moved to tears, she did what writers do: She pulled over and scribbled down details of the story so she wouldn't forget them. When she got home, one part of Paul's story kept tugging at her: the story of that truck. With the help of two songwriter friends (Jimmy Yeary and Jessi Alexander), Harrington turned Monti's story—and all of that emotion—into a song. Not long after, country singer Lee Brice recorded it, and I Drive Your Truck made its way quickly to No. 1 on Billboard's country chart. The official video has since been viewed 55 million times. But the story didn't end there. Not long after the song became a hit, Paul was contacted by a woman he knew who'd lost her son in the same battle that took his son's life. "She sent me a message that she'd heard the song and that I had to listen to it," Paul said. "She knew I drove Jared's truck, and she drove her son's truck, too." He was unable to make it through the song. "I'd get into it a few bars or so and kind of welled up," he explained. What Paul didn't know was that it was his story that inspired the song. The writers eventually tracked him down to celebrate the song's success: It won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year in 2013. The song did what country music does best: tell sad, beautiful stories. Here's the opening verse and chorus: Eighty-nine cents in the ashtray Half-empty bottle of Gatorade Rollin' on the floorboard. That dirty Braves cap on the dash Dog tags hangin' from the rearview Old Skoal can and cowboy boots And a "Go Army" shirt folded in the back. This thing burns gas like crazy But that's all right People got their ways of copin' Oh and I've got mine. I drive your truck I roll every window down And I burn up Every back road in this town. I find a field, I tear it up Till all the pain is a cloud of dust Yes, sometimes I drive your truck. The grave of Medal of Honor recipient Jared Christopher Monti is bathed in the autumn sunlight at the Massachusetts National Cemetery as the nation approaches Veterans Day weekend in Bourne on November 8, 2013. The grave of Medal of Honor recipient Jared Christopher Monti is bathed in the autumn sunlight at the Massachusetts National Cemetery as the nation approaches Veterans Day weekend in Bourne on November 8, 2013. AP Photo/Stephan Savoia What we don't learn from the song were the circumstances of Jared's death. In June 21, 2006, Sergeant First Class Monti was leading a 16-man patrol in the Nuristan Province, part of the 10th Mountain Division, when his patrol was ambushed by enemy fighters. One soldier who served under him was wounded badly. Despite a wicked firefight, Jared tried three times to help his fallen comrade. The third attempt got him killed. No one who knew Jared was surprised. "It's what he did," Paul said of his son. "Jared didn't give up on people, and always, he tried to do the right thing." What led Jared to become the man he was? One need not look far to figure it out. His father had the same passion for serving others, for doing the right thing—and doing hard things. In 2022, Paul died at the age of 76 from cancer. He taught earth sciences at a local high school for 35 years and rarely talked about himself: He was too busy taking care of people around him. Paul's daughter Niccole told reporters her dad, one of nine kids growing up, worked hard throughout his life. He delivered newspapers and worked all kinds of odd jobs growing up, and worked two and three jobs to support his family. He didn't complain about it. Or take credit for it. It was who he was. "Paul relentlessly pursued a life of helping others, always leading by example," his colleagues wrote on the Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Facebook page. "He left us to join his son Jared in heaven." It's a sublime final image of two lives beautifully lived, and God's just reward for doing so. It's why the story of Paul and Jared Monti is one for the ages, memorialized by a song for the ages. A song everyone should listen to this, and every, Memorial Day.
