Electric battery maker to locate factory in northern WVa
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The energy startup SPARKZ said Tuesday it will locate an electric battery factory in…
Continue ReadingAP National Business
Groundbreaking advances emerging vehicle battery production
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Kentucky has reached another stage in developing an electric vehicle battery sector. State and local officials…
Continue Reading In quiet TV week, ’60 Minutes’ lead the Nielsen ratings
NEW YORK (AP) — “60 Minutes” leads for Aug. 22-28 in television’s prime-time ratings as measured by the Nielsen company, in another quiet…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday 8/30/2022
The Associated Press Stocks fell again on Wall Street, posting their third loss in a row as traders worry that high interest rates are here to stay…
Continue Reading Building collapses in Nigeria; 8 people pulled from rubble
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A three-story building under construction has collapsed in Nigeria’s northwestern…
Continue Reading Photronics, Conn’s fall; Best Buy, Big Lots rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Photronics, Conn’s fall; Best Buy, Big Lots…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell $5.37 to $91.64 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for October delivery fell $5.78…
Continue Reading NYC announces debt relief plan for struggling taxi drivers
By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City taxi drivers who owe hundreds of thousands of dollars on loans they took out to…
Continue Reading Angolan opposition UNITA rejects ruling party’s election win
Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Angola’s opposition party has filed a complaint against the election victory of the ruling MPLA party in…
Continue Reading Maine supreme court breathes new life into power project
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s highest court is breathing new life into a $1 billion transmission line project…
Continue Reading FDA chief says long-awaited opioid review still in the works
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration says a government review of prescription opioid…
Continue Reading Sale of Warren Buffett portrait can’t match $19M lunch bid
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The auction of a high-tech portrait of Warren Buffett couldn’t come close to matching the…
Continue Reading Former Westwood College students get federal debt canceled
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through…
Continue Reading US asks farmers: Can you plant 2 crops instead of 1?
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of…
Continue Reading Job vacancies rose in July, dashing Fed hopes for cooling
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of…
Continue Reading US consumers more confident in August as gas prices dip
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Following three straight monthly declines, U.S. consumer confidence rebounded in August as…
Continue Reading Google becoming FIBA’s 1st women’s-only hoops global partner
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Google is increasing its investment in basketball, becoming the first women’s-only global partner with…
Continue Reading On Mexico’s Caribbean coast, mountains of seaweed grow
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Scraping the smelly sargassum seaweed off some beaches on Mexico’s resort-studded…
Continue Reading Danube drought reveals parts of hidden World War II history
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press PRAHOVO, Serbia (AP) — The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn’t only scorched farmland and hampered…
Continue Reading Yankees, LeBron James to invest in AC Milan soccer team
By RONALD BLUM and ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s elite are getting involved with one of Europe’s most celebrated…
Continue Reading Russian prosecutors ask for 24-year sentence for ex-reporter
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors at the trial of a former journalist asked the court Tuesday to hand him a…
Continue Reading German inflation back at near-half-century record after dip
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate rose to 7.9% in August, returning to its highest level in nearly half a century after it dipped in…
Continue Reading Greece: 30 migrants picked up from islet off Crete
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have picked up a group of 30 people from a wooden boat that…
Continue Reading Best Buy Q2 results fall amid softening demand for gadgets
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy posted declines in fiscal second-quarter profits and sales as the nation’s…
Continue Reading Arizona governor to focus on semiconductors in Taiwan visit
By HUIZHONG WU and JOE McDONALD Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for a visit focused on…
Continue Reading Musk cites whistleblower as new reason to exit Twitter deal
By KELVIN CHAN and TOM KRISHER The Associated Press Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Twitter lobbed more accusations at each other Tuesday in the latest round…
Continue Reading Millennial Money: Don’t let money ‘rules’ get you down
By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Money rules of thumb can be useful guardrails, helping you allocate spending and determine what’s affordable. They…
Continue Reading Germany upbeat on energy security; Baltics count on wind
By FRANK JORDANS, BARBARA SURK and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted Tuesday that his country was…
Continue Reading Heavy fighting rages in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied south
By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed to have destroyed bridges and ammunition depots and pounded command posts in a…
Continue Reading Podcast leads to Australian’s conviction in wife’s murder
SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man has been convicted of murdering his wife 40 years ago after a renewed police investigation that was triggered by a…
Continue Reading Almost all Dutch trains halted by strike around Utrecht
UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Almost the entire Dutch railway network has been shut down as workers affected by soaring inflation and staff shortages…
Continue Reading EU split over Russia visa ban, weighs Ukraine army training
By LORNE COOK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — European Union nations are divided over whether to slap a broad visa ban on Russian citizens over the…
Continue Reading Cargo ship beached after collision in Bay of Gibraltar
By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar authorities say they have beached a cargo ship to prevent it from sinking after it…
Continue Reading Japanese business pioneer, philanthropist Inamori dies at 90
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuo Inamori, founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera who also became a…
Continue Reading Volunteer sniper embodies Ukraine’s versatile military
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before taking a shot, Ukrainian sniper Andriy buries his face in a…
Continue Reading Asian stocks follow Wall Street lower after US jobs data
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after strong U.S. jobs data fueled expectations…
Continue Reading Women race political clock, cross state lines for abortions
By LINDSEY TANNER AND PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press DAYTON, OHIO (AP) — In the dim light of a clinic ultrasound room, Monica Eberhart reclines…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka’s president says IMF talks nearing successful end
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says his bankrupt country’s talks…
Continue Reading Indiana refinery fire not expected to hit gas prices much
By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A major Midwestern oil refinery shut down by a fire should reopen in the next…
Continue Reading Catalent, Bristol-Myers fall; Napco, Exxon Mobil rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Catalent, Bristol-Myers fall; Napco, Exxon Mobil…
Continue Reading Labor board rules Tesla must let workers wear union clothing
DETROIT (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has reversed a Trump-era decision by finding that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Monday 8/29/2022
The Associated Press Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, adding to their recent losses as traders realized how determined the Federal Reserve is to…
Continue Reading FTC accuses data broker of selling sensitive location data
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose $3.95 to $97.01 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery rose $4.10…
Continue Reading 3 of 12 rail unions announce tentative deal with 24% raises
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three of the 12 unions negotiating with the nation’s biggest freight railroads have reached a…
Continue Reading Fed’s real-time payment system coming as early as May ’23
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Federal Reserve official says that the central bank’s new real-time payments system known…
Continue Reading Walmart seeks to dismiss lawsuit by FTC over money transfers
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission that…
Continue Reading Elon Musk subpoenas Twitter whistleblower ahead of trial
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding to hear from Twitter’s whistleblowing former security chief, who could help…
Continue Reading Supreme Court climate ruling could impact nuclear waste case
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of…
Continue Reading EU, German leaders pledge reform to cut electricity prices
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the European Union’s executive branch and Germany’s chancellor have pledged a reform of the continent’s…
Continue Reading