What’s in Democrats’ big bill? Climate, health care, savings
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what…
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China July exports rise, with trade surplus at record-high
BEIJING (AP) — China’s export growth continued to rise in July, sending trade surplus to a record high. According to data from China’s customs,…
Continue Reading Demand for grocery delivery cools as food costs rise
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Karen Raschke, a retired attorney in New York, started getting her groceries delivered early in the pandemic.…
Continue Reading Transit woes mount for Boston’s beleaguered subway riders
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — For Boston subway riders, it seems every week brings a new tale of transit woe. Runaway trains.…
Continue Reading Bangladesh seeks China help to repatriate Rohingya refugees
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar…
Continue Reading Shift in war’s front seen as grain leaves Ukraine; plant hit
By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Six more ships carrying agricultural cargo held up by the war in Ukraine received…
Continue Reading Venezuela, Colombia border areas hopeful as reopening looms
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SAN JUAN DE COLON, Venezuela (AP) — Official cross-border trade between Venezuela and Colombia has been…
Continue Reading Biden team, Eli Lilly condemn new Indiana abortion ban
By KEN KUSMER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The administration of President Joe Biden and one of Indiana’s largest employers have…
Continue Reading Musk says Twitter deal could move ahead with ‘bot’ info
Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures…
Continue Reading ‘Quasi-preneurs’ see opportunity, challenges in franchising
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2020, Kelly Jackson and Davina Arceneaux wanted to leave their company jobs and become…
Continue Reading Dems’ climate, energy, tax bill clears initial Senate hurdle
By ALAN FRAM and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic bill toward Senate approval early…
Continue Reading Buffett’s firm reports $44B loss but its businesses thrive
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company reported a $43.76 billion loss in the second quarter as the paper…
Continue Reading Antitrust trial puts book publishing industry in the dock
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department’s effort to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon…
Continue Reading Ukraine grain shipments offer hope, not fix to food crisis
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB, AYA BATRAWY and CARA ANNA Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A ship bringing corn to Lebanon’s northern port of Tripoli normally…
Continue Reading UN food price index dropped in July for fourth month
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency’s global food price index dropped for a fourth straight month in July, but was still…
Continue Reading Hong Kong’s last sawmill faces closure amid development plan
By KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chi Kee Sawmill & Timber is Hong Kong’s last operating sawmill. It has been processing wood in…
Continue Reading Twitter breach exposed anonymous account owners
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Twitter says vulnerability in its software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday 8/05/2022
The Associated Press Stocks are closing mostly lower Friday after new data on the hot U.S. jobs market suggested the Fed won’t soon rein in its…
Continue Reading Zillow, Monster Beverage fall; Yelp, Atlassian rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Zillow, Monster Beverage fall; Yelp, Atlassian…
Continue Reading Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what…
Continue Reading 5 things to consider when looking for a new job
By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — The U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in July, meaning workers who want a new…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 47 cents to $89.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…
Continue Reading Storms ground US air travelers as airlines cancel flights
NEW YORK (AP) — Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers. Airlines canceled about…
Continue Reading Judge: Agency keeps ignoring environment in coal region plan
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has rejected a federal agency’s plans for managing some public lands in the…
Continue Reading Dems change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in…
Continue Reading 5 key takeaways from the July jobs report
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — July’s jobs report was a stunner, in more ways than one. Despite raging inflation and anxiety…
Continue Reading Warner Bros. Discovery Q2 results miss Wall Street’s view
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery, which went public in April, missed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter…
Continue Reading Pipeline developer pleads no contest in pollution cases
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The developer of a major pipeline system has pleaded no contest to criminal charges…
Continue Reading Hourly workers still have leverage as US hiring booms
By CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — As inflation skyrockets, hourly workers keep changing jobs in pursuit of higher wages. And with…
Continue Reading US agency probes Tesla crashes that killed 2 motorcyclists
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal…
Continue Reading Vatican beats deficit projections, gives uncertain outlook
ROME (AP) — The Vatican recorded a 3 million euro deficit last year, far less than the 33 million euros projected. But the Holy See said Friday…
Continue Reading Mall of America reopens following shooting and lockdown
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban…
Continue Reading Greece’s intelligence chief resigns amid spyware scandal
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…
Continue Reading Amazon to buy vacuum maker iRobot for roughly $1.7B
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…
Continue Reading Putin hosts Erdogan for talks on trade, Ukraine, Syria
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with…
Continue Reading 3 more ships with grain depart Ukraine ports under UN deal
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…
Continue Reading Musk countersuit accuses Twitter of fraud over ‘bot’ count
Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…
Continue Reading Pacific rim economies in doldrums, sapped by inflation, war
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…
Continue Reading Farmers’ group: Talks with Dutch govt delivered ‘too little’
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…
Continue Reading Meta quieter on election misinformation as midterms loom
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting…
Continue Reading Indian police block opposition protests over price increases
By RISHI LEKHI and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have detained dozens of lawmakers from the opposition Congress…
Continue Reading ‘What recession?’: US employers add 528,000 jobs in July
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added an astonishing 528,000 jobs last month despite flashing warning signs of…
Continue Reading What Equifax’s credit score errors mean for consumers
By AMANDA BARROSO and LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Credit bureau Equifax announced that a computer coding error resulted in the miscalculation of…
Continue Reading Wall Street falls as jobs data suggests Fed hikes not over
By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes closed mostly lower Friday after a roller-coaster…
Continue Reading India raises interest rate to 5.4%, in 3rd hike since May
ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a half percentage point to 5.4% in its…
Continue Reading Tougher IRS enforcement central to Dem economic package
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a decade of mostly losing out, the Internal Revenue Service may finally get the…
Continue Reading Tesla investors approve stock split; Musk to add factories
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders have approved a three-for-one stock split, a move that will make the company’s shares more accessible to…
Continue Reading Beyond Meat announces layoffs after lower Q2 sales
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat said Thursday it’s laying off 4% of its workforce after a difficult second…
Continue Reading Efforts fail to save historic Alaska theater from demolition
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie…
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