Woman charged after 1,000 pigs found dead at Iowa site
SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman is facing criminal charges after more than 1,000 pigs were found dead on a property. KCCI-TV reports that the…
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Stuck bags add to tangles at Paris airports amid travel boom
Airlines worked Saturday to deliver luggage to passengers around the world after a technical breakdown left at least 1,500 bags stuck at Paris’…
Continue Reading From AM to PM, the fickle force of government is with you
By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When you groggily roll out of bed and make breakfast, the government edges up to your kitchen…
Continue Reading With hospitalizations up, France weighs return to masks
By BARBARA SURK and JADE LE DELEY Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — Tourism is booming again in France — and so is COVID-19. French officials…
Continue Reading Regulator urges Germans to prepare for possible gas shortage
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency…
Continue Reading Virgin Orbit rocket launches 7 US defense satellites
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven U.S. Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the…
Continue Reading Trump social media firm subpoened by feds, stock regulators
By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s social media company and some of its employees received subpoenas from a…
Continue Reading California man will plead guilty in cannabis pen fraud
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who once competed on the Philippines national decathlon team has agreed to plead guilty to bilking…
Continue Reading Air France-KLM latest airline to settle US mail allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle charges that it falsified records about international deliveries of U.S.…
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Chip shortage keeps driving up auto prices, cutting sales
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new vehicle sales tumbled more than 21% in the second quarter compared with a year ago as the…
Continue Reading Amazon bars off-duty warehouse workers from its buildings
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon is barring off-duty warehouse workers from the company’s facilities, a move organizers say can hamper…
Continue Reading Mexico launches new oil refinery, denies solar permits
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s office says the new Gulf coast refinery is “a dream come true” for…
Continue Reading Biden offshore drilling proposal would allow up to 11 sales
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday 7/1/2022
The Associated Press Stocks shook off a morning slump and ended higher Friday, but not enough to erase their losses for the week. It was the fourth…
Continue Reading Micron, Kohl’s fall; NextEra, Teleflex rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Micron, Kohl’s fall; NextEra, Teleflex…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery rose $2.67 to $108.43 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for September delivery rose…
Continue Reading California adds laws targeting ghost guns, sales to minors
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, which already has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws, has added…
Continue Reading EU prepares emergency plan to do without Russian energy
PRAGUE (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has pledged to draft an emergency plan aimed at helping member countries do without Russian…
Continue Reading Venice unveils mandatory day-trippers’ reservation and fee
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to…
Continue Reading Germany wants ads, influencers to note use of beauty filters
BERLIN (AP) — German state officials said Friday that they want advertisers and social media influencers to label any photos that have used…
Continue Reading Julian Assange appeals to UK court against extradition to US
By FRANK GRIFFITHS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed against the British’s government decision…
Continue Reading Holiday-travel chaos: Airlines brace for huge weekend crowds
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019,…
Continue Reading Peter Schiff trying to save Puerto Rico bank under probe
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. financial analyst Peter Schiff says he will fight to be able to sell a bank he…
Continue Reading WVa opioid trial verdict still pending nearly a year later
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Last July, a federal judge in West Virginia heard closing arguments in the first lawsuit to…
Continue Reading Chip shortage leaves 95K GM vehicles unfinished in storage
DETROIT (AP) — The global shortage of computer chips forced General Motors to build 95,000 vehicles without certain components during the second…
Continue Reading Vatican closes London property sale at a loss after scandal
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican said Friday it had finalized the sale of a London property that is the focus of a…
Continue Reading Dutch central bank chief apologizes for links to slavery
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The chief of the Dutch central bank has apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest…
Continue Reading Russia seizes control of partly foreign-owned energy project
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has handed full control over a major oil and natural gas project partly owned by Shell and two…
Continue Reading New Zealand leader makes 1st trip to UK since trade deal
LONDON (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made her first visit to the U.K. since both countries signed a free trade agreement.…
Continue Reading Kohl’s sale falls apart in shaky retail environment
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The potential sale of the Kohl’s department store chain has fallen apart in a shaky…
Continue Reading UK government faces new boozy scandal as deputy whip quits
By FRANK GRIFFITHS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is dealing with another boozy scandal after…
Continue Reading Volvo to build $1.25 billion electric car plant in Slovakia
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Swedish luxury vehicle maker Volvo Cars plans to build a new European plant in eastern Slovakia. The country’s…
Continue Reading Inflation hits record 8.6% for 19 countries using the euro
By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge…
Continue Reading Ex-Alibaba employee says ex-boss should be charged with rape
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has accused her then-manager of trying…
Continue Reading Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle and Voice of America
ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s media watchdog has banned access to the Turkish services of U.S. public service…
Continue Reading After two pandemic years, a summer travel bounce — and chaos
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Summer travel is underway across the globe, but a full recovery from two years of coronavirus…
Continue Reading French airport workers strike for higher pay amid inflation
By OLEG CETINIC and BOUBKAR BENZEBAT PARIS (AP) — Flights from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and other French airports are facing disruptions…
Continue Reading Hong Kong fishermen keep old ways, 25 years after handover
By The Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Ng brothers, fishermen living in the remote Hong Kong village of Tai O, have carried on with their…
Continue Reading Wall Street closes higher but still ends week in the red
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks on Wall Street shook off a downbeat start and ended broadly higher Friday, though the…
Continue Reading Cups, straws, spoons: India starts on single-use plastic ban
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan…
Continue Reading New York officials rule against bitcoin-mining power plant
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has denied required air permit renewals to a bitcoin-mining power plant on the grounds that it was a threat to the…
Continue Reading El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting leader buys $1.5 million more
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president is back at it, doubling down on his country’s losing investment…
Continue Reading American offers to boost pilot pay 17% by the end of 2024
DALLAS (AP) — Airlines facing a pilot shortage are boosting pay. The CEO of American Airlines said Thursday that his airline has offered to raise…
Continue Reading McConnell warns Dems of fallout for reviving Biden bill
By KEVIN FREKING and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened Thursday to derail a bill…
Continue Reading Alabama bond sale for mega prisons falls $200 million short
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons…
Continue Reading Agency clears way for Oakland Athletics $12B ballpark plan
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California agency on Thursday cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue…
Continue Reading High court declines to take up fight over airline crew rest
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up a case involving a state law that gives California-based flight crews more…
Continue Reading Family of boy killed in Adventureland accident sues park
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The family of an 11-year old boy who died on a water ride at the Altoona, Iowa amusement…
Continue Reading To avoid blackouts, California may tap fossil fuel plants
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to the one energy source…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Thursday 6/30/2022
The Associated Press Stocks fell again on Wall Street Thursday, closing out the worst quarter for the market since the onset of the pandemic in early…
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