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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A lawsuit over a deadly explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory says the candy-maker ignored warnings of a…
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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A lawsuit over a deadly explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory says the candy-maker ignored warnings of a…
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company has increased its investments in five major Japanese…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while…
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By The Associated Press Boeing is edging out European rival Airbus in the latest figures on orders and deliveries for new airline planes. Boeing said…
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NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue says it’s adding another European destination this summer. The New York-based airline said Tuesday that it will start…
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it will spend $1.34 billion ($1.8 billion Canadian) to convert an SUV factory in suburban Toronto so it can…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry says it has signed contracts worth $2.8 billion with the country’s top…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Tupperware Brands, which experienced a resurgence during the pandemic, is now pursuing investors to keep it afloat and…
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By PAUL WISEMAN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The outlook for the world economy this year has dimmed in the face of…
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By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Picture May 17, 2001. In the final seconds of the season seven finale of “Friends,” Jennifer…
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BY MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer President Joe Biden’s administration wants stronger measures to test the safety of artificial…
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By The Associated Press Moderna shares slipped Tuesday morning after the COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study…
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By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has signed new agreements to ensure its continued access to Russian energy. The…
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s top defense body has approved buying an unspecified number of American-made F-35 fighter jets, as the…
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By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A risk management company says pirates have boarded a Chinese-run oil tanker in West…
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RICHMOND, Va. — CarMax: Fiscal Q4 Earnings…
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By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet Investing in the stock market isn’t the only thing that may bring a financial return: Studies have found that seeking…
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By MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — When Nat West, owner of cider-making company Reverend Nat’s Hard…
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s parliament has opened a special session to scrutinize the state-imposed takeover of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s second-largest bank is pursuing a potential merger with its smaller rival, potentially creating a…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, as markets watched for key inflation data likely to…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has suspended a complaint to the World Trade Organization in a bid to reopen…
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By TOM KRISHER, MATTHEW DALY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City for a deposition Thursday in New York…
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BY DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press The California Civil Rights Department has voluntarily dismissed its case alleging caste discrimination against…
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Three years after the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Atlantic City’s casinos are…
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NEW YORK (AP) — An electric bicycle powered by a lithium ion battery is being blamed for a fatal fire in New York City that killed two children.…
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By TOM KRISHER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will propose strict new automobile pollution limits…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Apple Inc., down $2.63 to $162.03. Global PC shipments slid in…
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CHRISTIANA, Del. (AP) — Authorities are searching for three suspects in a shooting at a Delaware mall that wounded three people and prompted an…
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SAN DIEGO — PriceSmart: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
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By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A battle over a $1 billion transmission line that won regulatory approvals only to be…
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KENDLETON, Texas (AP) — Kansas City Southern Railroad says three of its tank cars derailed but remained upright in a Southeast Texas rail yard. A…
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By AMY TAXIN Associated Press During California’s prolonged, wet winter, beekeeper Gene Brandi said he had to spend twice as much money on a…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Hostess Brands President and CEO Andy Callahan knows that his company __ the maker of Twinkies, HoHos and other…
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LONDON (AP) — Britain is bracing for a four-day walkout by tens of thousands of doctors at the state-funded health care system. One official said…
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The Labor Department delivers its monthly index of inflation at the consumer level on Wednesday, followed by its report on wholesale prices Thursday.…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The new governor of Japan’s central bank has signaled, once again, that he plans no drastic…
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By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Scam artists often target older adults because they hold significant levels of wealth, but family and friends can…
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LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. — Greenbrier: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s central bank says that Pakistanis living abroad sent $2.5 billion home in March,…
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By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. For 16 years, she had been a…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday after a mixed session on Wall Street dominated by speculation…
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst…
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say electric car maker Tesla Inc. plans to build a factory in Shanghai to produce power-storage devices for sale…
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CHRISTIANA, Del. (AP) — A Delaware mall shooting left three people injured and forced shoppers to evacuate as police investigate. Delaware State…
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SANTA ROSA, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico wildlife managers say they will have fewer rainbow trout to stock in lakes and rivers around the state this…
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Gadiel Galvez learned that the owner of his mobile home park south of…
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LONDON (AP) — The British public health system is warning that a planned four-day strike by tens of thousands of doctors could lead to the…
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By JARI TANNER and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says her center-right Reform…
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By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine (AP) — Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the…
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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A legal battle over a dress code for bikini baristas at coffee stands is ending after a city north of Seattle agreed to pay…
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin sentenced a Minnesota man on Friday to two years in prison for aiming a laser at a Delta Air…
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains. The call…
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top sanctions officials from the U.S. Treasury Department are set to make a series of…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Medicaid program will continue to pay Walgreens about $1.5 billion each year. That’s despite…
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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition…
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani will be heading to prison later this month. That’s…
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. road safety regulators have sent a team to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that may have…
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By HAVEN DALEY and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — This Easter, Americans will devour more than 1 billion Peeps — those…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Regulators are worried that faucet leaks in Boeing 787 jets could pose a safety hazard by water seeping into the…
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla cut prices on its entire U.S. electric vehicle model lineup for the third time this year in an…
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit recalled 300 robotaxis to update software after one of them rear-ended a municipal…
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By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime…
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By R.J. RICO Associated Press Over the past few months, many streaming companies have started eliminating some of their own shows from their library.…
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By R.J. RICO Associated Press Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with one of her shows being canceled. For a performer, it’s a painful,…
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Police in Cambodia say 19 Japanese men detained on suspicion of taking part in organized phone and online scams will be…
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By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A group of fish farmers wants to be the first to bring offshore aquaculture to the…
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By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet More than half of older taxpayers (57%) are worried they’ll have to pay more taxes this year because of the 5.9%…
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yields rose in the U.S. bond market Friday following a highly anticipated report on the U.S. job…
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposal designed to thwart environmentally and socially conscious investing has cleared…
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By AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or…
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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in March, suggesting that the economy…
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By JULIE WATSON and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California officials say they want federal disaster relief for the state’s…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A lawsuit over a salad has been tossed. Sweetgreen said Thursday it will change the name of one of its salads in…
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is changing a half-century-old land-use law to make room for semiconductor development…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending his administration’s actions on clean water, President Joe Biden on Thursday…
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Medicure: Q4 Earnings…
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WESTWOOD, Mass. — Chase: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Costco Wholesale Corp., down $11.15 to $485.98. Investors…
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The Associated Press Stocks were mixed on Wall Street Monday in their first trading after a report heightened speculation the Federal Reserve may tap…
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SAN DIEGO — WD-40: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
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DALLAS (AP) — The CEO of Southwest Airlines is seeing his compensation nearly double after getting promoted to the top job. A Southwest spokesman…
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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts gambling regulators have denied a request to allow legal betting on this year’s Boston Marathon, citing concerns by…
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The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery rose $1.79 to $81.53 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for June delivery rose $1.43 to…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block what they say would be one of the largest gold mines in the world. They…
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MOSCOW (AP) — The ruble has fallen against the U.S. dollar to the value it held just before Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than a year ago.…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS released details Thursday on how it plans to use an infusion of $80 billion for…
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By MATT O’BRIEN and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Details of how tech executive Bob Lee came to be fatally stabbed in…
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By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The first comprehensive poll to measure public attitudes on foundations…
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By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that documents from a child pornography investigation into billionaire…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate dipped for the fourth straight week, a good sign for potential home buyers…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has unveiled what it calls the largest community solar effort in U.S.…
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By ED WHITE Associated Press The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in…
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is ordering an unproven drug intended to prevent premature…
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By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Boston city councilor has proposed barring city liquor stores from selling the single-serve bottles…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund chief warns the world economy is expected to…
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