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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Ted Lerner, the billionaire real estate developer whose family bought the Washington Nationals in 2006, has died, the team announced Monday. He was 97. A Nationals spokesperson said Lerner died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Lerner’s group purchased the

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican senator is introducing legislation that calls on the federal government to step up research and prevention efforts for a pest that could jeopardize the state’s wild blueberry crop. Maine is the only state in the country with a significant harvest of wild blueberries, which

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The CEO of a nonprofit that helps people with medical debt wants to expand the amount of debt her organization buys, especially from hospitals. RIP Medical Debt CEO Allison Sesso also wants to draw more attention to the system that generates the bills. The organization uses donations to buy

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Walt Disney Co. is planning to add an Avatar experience to Disneyland and explore other opportunities at its theme parks as it looks for more ways to appeal to its guests. CEO Bob Iger said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call that the success of the latest Avatar

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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has offered a monologue of praise for the United Arab Emirates, seeking to repair a rift between Cairo and the Gulf Arab states that have supplied billions of dollars in aid to his nation. Gulf nations now say they

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Following a family budget is challenging, especially when unexpected costs pop up, including those related to the high prices at the grocery store and rising interest rates. Financial experts say you can overcome those obstacles by creating a flexible approach to managing your money. Start by tracking your spending, leaving

TEL AVIV, Israel — Check Point: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

BERLIN (AP) — The former CEO of payments company Wirecard has denied having known anything about false accounting at the firm as he testifies at his trial over its collapse in 2020.  Wirecard was long the darling of Germany’s fintech scene until it filed for insolvency, saying that 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion) that had

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For years, some New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would ban smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos. But those measures went nowhere. However, on Monday a state Senate committee will hold the first discussion on a bill that would close a loophole in New Jersey’s indoor

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Koji Sato, appointed the next president at Japan’s top automaker Toyota, has outlined a management team that he says will lead an aggressive push on electric vehicles. Sato said Toyota will develop a next-generation Lexus brand electric vehicle by 2026. Toyota also plans to beef up

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fourteen years after a financial crisis nearly brought Dubai to its knees, several major abandoned real estate projects are finally showing signs of life as part of a new economic boom in the city-state. As with previous upturns in Dubai, war is a driving

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic city-state on the Arabian Peninsula. On Monday, it offered its firmest details yet for a pledged launch by 2026. Since 2017, the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates has offered

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation. The tech giant plans to release a series of short videos highlighting the techniques common to many misleading

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Advertisers bet big that viewers were turning to the Super Bowl for a comforting escape, and delivered a series of advertisements that relied on familiar celebrity faces, light humor, and plenty of cuddly dogs. This wasn’t a year for edgy humor or experimentation. After the

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It has been nearly two years since the United States began pressing Mexico over labor rights violations by using rapid dispute resolution methods contained in the U.S.-Mexico Canada free trade agreement. The administration of President Joe Biden has brought six such complaints and brags that, for

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Federal workplace safety authorities have fined a central Pennsylvania confectionary factory more than $14,500 following an accident last year in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Mars Wrigley in the June accident at the Elizabethtown M&M/Mars factory, saying the workers were

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The operator of a pipeline facility in California that was forced to shut down deliveries of gasoline and diesel from the Los Angeles area east to areas including Las Vegas and Phoenix due to a leak says it resumed operations on Saturday afternoon. Pipeline operator Kinder Morgan said Saturday that the

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A website that tracks vintage motorcycle sales says a rare Harley-Davidson motorcycle built in 1908 has become the most expensive motorcycle ever sold at auction. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that data on vintagent.com shows that the Strap Tank Harley-Davidson sold for $935,000 after auction fees last month at the Mecum Auction

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Humanitarian groups working in southern Turkey and northwest Syria warn that Monday’s earthquake will have a “long tail” — a wide range of needs that will require donations for months, or even years, after the rescue and recovery missions end. Among the worst in recent history,

HELSINKI (AP) — The Finnish president said in an interview published Saturday that he wants Finland and Sweden to be admitted into NATO as full members no later than by the military alliance’s summit in Lithuania in July. He also hinted that he wants the United States to put pressure on Turkey to approve their

By WANJOHI KABUKURU, BRIAN INGANGA and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — On the packed streets of Nairobi, Cyrus Kariuki is one of a growing number of bikers zooming through traffic on an electric motorbike, reaping the benefits of cheaper transport, cleaner air and limiting planet-warming emissions in the process. “Each month one

BEIJING (AP) — The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace. The economic restrictions announced Friday followed the Biden administration’s pledge to consider broader efforts to address Chinese surveillance activities and will

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The IRS announced Friday that most relief checks issued by states last year aren’t subject to federal taxes, providing 11th hour guidance as tax returns start to pour in. A week after telling payment recipients to delay filing returns, the IRS said it won’t challenge the taxability of payments related

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A leak in a fuel pipeline facility in California has forced a shutdown of deliveries of gasoline and diesel from the Los Angeles to areas including Las Vegas and Phoenix. But officials said Friday they believed supplies would not immediately be affected. Houston-based pipeline operator Kinder

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX railroad has promised to give more of its workers the paid sick time they demanded in contract negotiations last fall. CSX is the only major freight railroad so far to agree to give its employees sick time in the wake of the contentious negotiations

By ARIJETA LAJKA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An altered video that shows President Joe Biden making comments that attack transgender people was created with a new generation of artificial intelligence tools. With just a few seconds of sample audio, anyone can use these tools to generate audio that mimics a person’s voice. While

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The Associated Press Stocks drifted to a mostly higher close on Wall Street but still closed out their worst week since December. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Friday. Weakness in tech stocks pulled the Nasdaq composite lower, while the Dow gained ground. Energy companies rose with the price of crude oil. Stocks have been struggling

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he is sending a controversial new law on judicial accountability for constitutional review instead of rejecting it, because it could help unfreeze billions in European Union funds earmarked for Poland. Brussels has suspended payment of the pandemic recovery funds to Warsaw saying the government’s policies of

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: PayPal Holdings Inc., up $2.38 to $80.80. The digital payments platform gave investors a strong profit forecast. DexCom Inc., up $10.65 to $117.89. The medical device company reported strong fourth-quarter financial results. Cloudflare Inc., up $1.93 to $60.10. The San Francisco-based

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal investigators said Friday they issued subpoenas to force the pilots of an American Airlines jet to sit for recorded interviews about a close call with a Delta plane on a runway at New York’s Kennedy Airport last month. The National Transportation Safety Board said it attempted to interview

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas lawsuit with a key deadline this month is posing a threat to the nationwide availability of medication abortion, which now accounts for the majority of abortions in the U.S. The case filed by abortion opponents who helped challenge Roe v. Wade seeks to reverse a

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery rose $1.66 to $79.72 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for April delivery rose $1.89 to $86.39 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for March delivery rose 5 cents to $2.50 a gallon. March heating oil rose 4 cents to $2.86 a gallon. March natural gas rose 8

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — It’s been nearly a decade since “Breaking Bad” was on the air. But according to Aaron Paul, the iconic series is still “one of those gifts that just keeps on keeps on giving,” thanks to steaming services that allow it to continue to find new fans.

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to four former staffers who accused him of corruption in 2020, igniting an ongoing FBI investigation into the three-term Republican. Under terms of a preliminary lawsuit settlement, Paxton made no admission

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Sports betting is now legal in two-thirds of the country, and more Americans than ever before have an opportunity to place a legal bet on Sunday’s Super Bowl. With sports betting ads blitzing the airwaves with come-ons and promotions, things might be a bit confusing,

Associated Press Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink is being probed over its shipping methods after an animal rights group contacted the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said that public records show untrained Neuralink employees transported “contaminated” devices that were removed from the brains of “infected” monkeys without safely packaging them.

By KEN SWEET and MAE ANDERSON The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — How the mighty have fallen. Cryptocurrency companies grabbed the spotlight during the 2022 Super Bowl, with commercials from a handful of newcomers to advertising’s biggest stage: FTX, Coinbase, Crypto.com and eToro. Some marketing experts dubbed it the “Crypto Bowl.” A year later,

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least 6 people were killed and 27 were injured when an apartment building collapsed in the country’s north. The office of the country’s public prosecutor said the four-story building collapsed after cooking gas cylinders packed in a storage room in the basement of the property exploded. Search efforts

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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeowners are increasingly tapping their home equity, taking advantage of big gains following years of soaring prices. Home equity loan originations surged 47% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the most on records going back to 2010, according to TransUnion. Home equity lines

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BERLIN (AP) — A state-owned Dutch company that is Germany’s biggest electricity grid operator says it plans to hold talks on selling its entire German business to the government in Berlin. Germany welcomed the announcement Friday. TenneT, which is one of four transmission network operators in Germany, pointed to the need to find a “structural

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By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl ads are more than just breaks between gameplay during the biggest sporting event of the year: They offer a glimpse of the country’s zeitgeist, along with how major industries are faring. This year, crypto ads and automakers are advertising less since those industries

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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to a mostly higher close on Wall Street but still closed out their worst week since December. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Friday. Weakness in tech stocks pulled the Nasdaq composite down 0.6% while the Dow closed 0.5% higher. Energy companies rose with

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda is reporting a 27% jump in its October-December profit, despite headwinds like shortages of computer chips and rising costs of raw materials. Tokyo-based Honda’s profit in the last quarter totaled 244.6 billion yen, or $1.9 billion. Quarterly sales rose 20% as Honda sold more motorcycles

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British economy has stagnated in the final three months of last year amid cost-of-living crisis that’s squeezing household budgets, crimping business investment and fueling labor unrest. The Office for National Statistics said Friday that gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, failed to grow

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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — About $1 billion of Major League Baseball’s revenue is at risk if a cable television company fails to make payments for local broadcasting rights to 14 teams, and the sport is preparing to take over telecasts. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says “think you should

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company has now sold nearly 95 million of its original 225 million shares of Chinese electric carmaker BYD’s stock, but it remains a significant shareholder. Berkshire Hathaway said in a filing with the Hong Kong stock market Thursday that it had sold another

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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Chicken producers want to do their part to bring down current soaring egg prices. They’re offering to sell their 400 million surplus eggs to food producers if they can convince the FDA to change the food safety rule that prevents that. U.S. egg prices have

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s inflation rate rose in January to 7.91%, leading the country’s central bank to boost its principle interest rate to 11%. The Bank of Mexico said inflation was not going down as expected, and was likely to remain high for some time. The bank said Mexico’s inflation rate it is not

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