Iger back on top in a Disney plot twist that few saw coming
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bob Iger, the enterprising entertainment executive who brought Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel under the Disney marquee and…
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Asian stocks down after Wall St weekly loss on rate fears
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets sank Monday after Wall Street ended with a loss for the week amid anxiety…
Continue Reading Hong Kong leader Lee isolating with COVID-19 after APEC trip
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government says leader John Lee tested positive for the coronavirus after returning…
Continue Reading Company: Leak at Pennsylvania gas storage well plugged
By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press The operator of a natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania says workers have successfully plugged a…
Continue Reading Brazilian economist will lead regional development bank
NEW YORK (AP) — Latin American governments have selected Brazilian economist Ilan Goldfajn to lead the region’s largest development bank. It…
Continue Reading Shells hit near nuclear plant; Blackouts roll across Ukraine
By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Powerful explosions from shelling shook Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia…
Continue Reading As British voters cool on Brexit, UK softens tone towards EU
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government on Sunday denied a report that it is seeking a “Swiss-style” relationship…
Continue Reading Reality TV’s Chrisleys get hefty sentences in fraud case
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms after being…
Continue Reading Justices asked to hear dog toy dispute. Will they bite?
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that makes Jack Daniel’s is howling mad over a squeaking dog toy that…
Continue Reading South Africa faces challenges in transition away from coal
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press MASAKHANE, South Africa (AP) — Living in the shadow of one of South Africa’s largest coal-fired power…
Continue Reading China announces 1st COVID-19 death in almost 6 months
BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday announced its first new death from COVID-19 in nearly half a year as strict new measures are imposed in Beijing and…
Continue Reading Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account after online poll
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has…
Continue Reading Tesla recalls 300K vehicles over taillight software glitch
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tesla is recalling more than 300,000 vehicles in the U.S. because a software glitch can make taillights go off intermittently,…
Continue Reading Collection of love letters written by Dylan sold for $670K
BOSTON (AP) — A collection of touching and sometimes prescient personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been…
Continue Reading Public safety accounts urge caution on Twitter after changes
By STEPHEN GROVES As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department…
Continue Reading Ohio’s Intel project triggers housing fears in tight market
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intel’s announcement earlier this year of a $20 billion manufacturing operation…
Continue Reading VP Harris meets with China’s Xi in bid to ‘keep lines open’
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has spoken briefly with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in another…
Continue Reading Asia-Pacific leaders condemn war, renew calls for open trade
By KRUTIKA PATHI, CHISATO TANAKA AND CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Leaders from around the Asia-Pacific called for an…
Continue Reading China’s COVID-19 restrictions hit historic Beijing theater
BEIJING (AP) — Performances have been suspended at one of Beijing’s oldest and most renowned theaters as part of a new wave of shop and…
Continue Reading Leak at Pennsylvania gas storage well spewing methane
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A vent at an underground natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania has been spewing…
Continue Reading EPA orders Ohio power plant to stop dumping toxic coal ash
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental…
Continue Reading New this week: Lizzo, ‘Criminal Minds’ and ‘The Woman King’
By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday 11/18/2022
The Associated Press Stocks ended higher on Wall Street but still wound up with weekly losses after several days of bumpy trading. Some retailers…
Continue Reading California recovers pandemic job losses amid economic woes
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California said Friday it had recovered all of the 2.7 million jobs it lost at the start of…
Continue Reading Ross Stores, Gap rise; Farfetch, Williams-Sonoma fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Ross Stores Inc., up $9.66 to $107.59. The discount retailer…
Continue Reading Ex-CFO says Trump kids raised pay after learning of scheme
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer has testified that Eric Trump hiked…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery fell $1.56 to $80.08 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for January delivery fell $2.16…
Continue Reading New service union seeks to inspire labor movement in South
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Over 100 service industry workers have gathered in the capital of the…
Continue Reading With Twitter in chaos, some ways to protect your account
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is in chaos. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an…
Continue Reading Environmental groups sue DOT over Mississippi road project
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of environmental and racial justice are suing the U.S.…
Continue Reading US bid to kill American-JetBlue partnership goes to judge
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The government and two major airlines are giving starkly contrasting views about the impact of an alliance between…
Continue Reading Foundations call for cooperation, some new pledges at COP27
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Philanthropic foundations have made some new commitments at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt over the past two…
Continue Reading Lobster rules to protect whale will wait 2 years, judge says
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions designed to conserve…
Continue Reading Finland to start building fence on Russian border next year
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish border guard officials say construction of a planned barbed-wired fence on the Nordic…
Continue Reading Cliffs CEO: Minnesota mine will close without mineral rights
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs says an iron ore mine in northern Minnesota will close in a few years if it doesn’t get…
Continue Reading Biden says inflation help is coming but ‘will take time’
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is cautioning that “it’s going to take time” for…
Continue Reading Pfizer booster spurs immune response to new omicron subtypes
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer said Friday that its updated COVID-19 booster may offer some protection against newly emerging omicron…
Continue Reading Ukraine experts join probe of fatal missile blast in Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Experts from Ukraine have joined Polish and American investigators who are looking into a missile blast that killed two men…
Continue Reading Ford recalling some F-150 vehicles due to wiper motor
By The Associated Press Ford is recalling more than 550,00 F-150 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because the front windshield wiper motor may stop…
Continue Reading US home sales fell in October for ninth straight month
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in October for the ninth consecutive month to the slowest pre-pandemic…
Continue Reading Qatar bans sale of beer at World Cup stadiums in about-face
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal the…
Continue Reading Italian oil workers seek deal for Russian-owned refinery
ORTIGIA, Sicily (AP) — Thousands of workers at a Russian-owned oil refinery in Sicily have protested the facility’s possible closure as…
Continue Reading Russian strikes force Ukraine to face hours-long power cuts
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s electricity grid chief warned of hours-long power outages Friday as Russia…
Continue Reading UN: West Africa next in line for tied-up Russian fertilizer
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official says West Africa is next in line to receive Russian fertilizer that is tied up…
Continue Reading Relief meets fear as UK budget calms economy but brings pain
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government is defending its decision to hike taxes for millions of working…
Continue Reading Lagarde warns ECB may do more to rates than remove stimulus
DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The president of the European Central Bank is warning the bank may have to raise interest…
Continue Reading Sweden: Traces of explosives found at Baltic Sea pipelines
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two natural gas pipelines…
Continue Reading What to know if you’ve applied for student loan forgiveness
By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in federal student loan forgiveness has been…
Continue Reading VP Harris assures Asian leaders US is ‘here to stay’
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is assuring Asian leaders “the United States is here to…
Continue Reading German industrial workers to get pay raises in 2-year deal
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union has agreed with employers on a pay deal that will see millions…
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