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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas made a significant mark on the…
Continue ReadingBy MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Three bright and driven women with ground-breaking ideas made a significant mark on the…
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Official figures show that Turkey’s yearly inflation has climbed by the fastest pace in 19 years, jumping to 36.08% in…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The Labor Department issues its latest monthly snapshot of U.S. job openings Tuesday and its December tally of hiring by nonfarm…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed as worries about the omicron variant of coronavirus tempered…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of duping investors into believing her startup…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN, BRITTANY PETERSON and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Investigators looking for the cause of the Colorado…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are on 2022′s first trading day after Wall Street ended last year with a double-digit gain. Hong Kong…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Verizon and AT&T have rejected a request by the U.S. government to delay the rollout of next-generation wireless technology.…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla says it delivered a record 936,000 vehicles last year, up 87% from its 2020 delivery count. The electric vehicle company…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood closed out 2021 with more fireworks at the box office for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,”…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it’s banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FULLER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has been making contingency plans in case hospitals, schools and other workplaces…
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Suez Canal says its annual revenues reached $6.3 billion last year, the highest in the crucial waterway’s history.…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong online news site says it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms,…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS PEIPERT, BRITTANY PETERSON and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Search teams are looking for two missing people in…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The new year is bringing more of the same old misery that air travelers in the United States have been enduring…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Colorado officials say nearly 1,000 homes and other structures were…
Continue ReadingBy CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America LAS VEGAS (AP) — Organizers of the CES tech convention in Las Vegas say it will run from…
Continue ReadingStocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Moderna, Signature bank rise; GameStop, PayPal…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The airline industry is trying to delay next week’s scheduled rollout of 5G wireless service near dozens of major U.S.…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks ended 2021 on a weak note Friday, but still managed to end the year with big gains. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3%. It…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingBy DARKO VOJINOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Boisterous New Year’s Eve celebrations have kicked off in Serbia’s capital of…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy It was a healthy year for big gifts to charitable causes in 2021, a year…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Flight cancellations surged again on the last day of 2021, with airlines blaming it on crew shortages related to…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — New post-Brexit custom rules for goods arriving from the European Union to Britain are taking effect on Saturday. A leading food…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public. A.A. Milne’s children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French customers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Wall Street ended 2021 on a weak note Friday, but still managed to end the year with big gains. The S&P 500…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity edged higher in December as supply disruptions eased and export demand weakened. The monthly…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON, PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Coloradans driven from their…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian countries are looking to a China-centered trade bloc encompassing about a third of…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a…
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and…
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With a guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what…
Continue ReadingStocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Biogen, Norwegian Cruise Line fall, R.R. Donnelley…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press A late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street Thursday, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to go on cruises, regardless of their vaccination status, because of…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis. Jurors…
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers The arts industry has been battered during the past 21 months, as organizations furloughed…
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press The forces that have scrambled thousands of flights since Christmas Eve could ease in January, but…
Continue ReadingBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press MARLY-LE-ROI, France (AP) — The increasingly fraught fight in France against an unprecedented surge in…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla is recalling certain Model 3s because a coaxial cable for its backup camera can…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates moved slightly higher in the final week of 2021.…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell below 200,000, more evidence…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese officials are promising steady deliveries of groceries to residents of Xi’an, an…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have…
Continue ReadingLAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Officials at the Publix grocery store chain says that they will start offering paid parental leave to employees who are new…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada casinos set a record in November, reporting a ninth straight month of $1 billion or more in…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published December 29, 2021, about California’s Medicaid overhaul, The Associated Press erroneously reported…
Continue ReadingStocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Victoria’s Secret, Darling Ingredients rise; FuelCell…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas isn’t canceling or scaling back plans for big New Year’s gatherings amid concerns…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks ended another wobbly day mostly higher, enough for the S&P 500 to notch another record high. The benchmark index…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a Los Angeles business manager whose clients had included Nicki Minaj and the Kardashians has been killed, and…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — William Alvin Moncrief Jr., a Texas wildcatter who helped build a father-son venture into an oil…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due…
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a new pipeline to Germany has been fully filled…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have allowed for the reopening of cinemas, theaters and concert halls. The…
Continue ReadingGEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge has kept lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family who own it on hold…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of flights are being cancelled as the omicron variant creates havoc both for travelers and for…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Indigenous leaders are concerned about a proposed multimillion-dollar…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Stand News online media outlet says it is ceasing operations following a police raid and arrests of…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says the country’s coronavirus infection rate is likely two to three times higher than statistics…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL THEIS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy While NFT technology was created to give artists more control over their…
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Voter-approved rules kicking in Jan. 1 have prompted concerns about possible shortages…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s government is forging ahead with efforts to increase pressure on…
Continue ReadingGreece’s health minister says music will be banned at all commercial venues for New Year’s celebrations as part of new restrictions announced in…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A semitruck guided by technology from the company TuSimple completed an 80-mile route in Arizona with no human…
Continue ReadingA key part of the car buying process is familiarizing yourself with some of the key terms you’ll encounter on automaker websites or on the…
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Many adults find themselves helping their aging parents sign up for Medicare, a complex process with many steps and…
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is lifting its ban on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft, three years after one…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China is urging the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street hit a high and new daily U.S. coronavirus cases…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China is calling on the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ENIWA, Japan (AP) — Japan has been building up its defenses to counter strategic threats, but its arms industry…
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The attorney representing the private company that oversaw the Arizona Senate’s partisan review…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Twenty people were injured when a Greyhound bus headed to Las Vegas veered off a highway and rolled over in central Utah late…
Continue ReadingStocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Vista Outdoor, PulteGroup rise; Kiniksa, Pfizer…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Wall Street closed mixed Tuesday, leaving the S&P 500 just shy of its latest record high set a day earlier. After wavering…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it will allow cruise ships carrying people infected with the coronavirus to dock. The announcement…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage in several locations in the Denver…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials’ decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — An advisory body in Belgium has suspended a government-ordered closure of part of the cultural sector. The Council of State said…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s main opposition party is calling for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate…
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