Obama criticizes rioters...Mayor defends school closings...Stocks end mostly higher

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BALTIMORE (AP) — They aren't protesting -- they're just stealing. That's how President Barack Obama sees the looters who took to the streets in Baltimore yesterday, after the funeral for a black man who died in police custody. The manager of a looted CVS store says the destruction doesn't make sense. He says, "This is where people actually make a living." Baltimore has been generally calm today, a day after the unrest that police say left at least 20 officers hurt.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The mayor of Baltimore says she had no choice but to close the city's schools today. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says a lot of teachers had called and said they wouldn't work on the day after yesterday's riots. Some churches today were providing meals to children who normally depend on school for their food.

GORKHA, Nepal (AP) — Even amid efforts to bring aid to survivors of Saturday's earthquake in Nepal, there's word of a new disaster. Officials say a mudslide near the quake's epicenter has left as many as 250 people missing. Across central Nepal, hundreds of thousands of people are still living in the open -- without clean water or sanitation -- more than three days after the quake. It rained heavily in the capital today, forcing people to find shelter wherever they could. More than 4,600 people were killed in the quake.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jeb Bush isn't shying away from one of the Republican Party's touchiest debates. He told an audience in Puerto Rico that conservatives should be proud that America is an "immigrant nation" -- and should value the contribution that immigrants make to the country. The former Florida governor delivered a speech partly in Spanish on economic opportunities. Several of Bush's potential rivals favor a harder line than Bush does on those who come to the U.S. illegally.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have finished the day mostly higher as investors pore over a big batch of earnings reports. Shares in Twitter plunged 18 percent after its revenue came in lower than analysts' forecasts. Trading in the stock was temporarily halted because the results were released before the closing bell, earlier than investors were expecting. The Dow industrials climbed 72 points, while the S&P 500 gained five. The Nasdaq composite fell four points.