California Democrats to investigate cause of high gas prices
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With California drivers paying more than $6 for a gallon of gas and state officials…
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Puerto Rico law to boost private sector worker benefits
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has signed legislation that will award more rights to…
Continue Reading JetBlue raises offer again in bidding for Spirit Airlines
NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue is boosting its offer to buy Spirit Airlines, raising the stakes again in the bidding war over the nation’s biggest…
Continue Reading Stallone, Costner, Chastain help launch Paramount+ in UK
LONDON (AP) — Paramount+ flexed the star power of its shows as it prepares to launch in the United Kingdom with an event attended by Sylvester…
Continue Reading Crypto investors’ hot streak ends as harsh ‘winter’ descends
By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The wealth-generating hot streak for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has…
Continue Reading California eyes banning loitering for prostitution arrests
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Monday finally sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a hot potato of a bill…
Continue Reading Colorado guilty plea a first for US election task force
DENVER (AP) — A Nebraska man has pleaded guilty in federal court to making death threats against Colorado’s top elections official. Officials say…
Continue Reading East African leaders send regional force to eastern Congo
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — East Africa’s leaders have responded to the threat of war between Rwanda and Congo by instructing a new regional force to…
Continue Reading Brazil’s Petrobras CEO resigns amid pressure over gas prices
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The chief executive of Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras resigned amid political…
Continue Reading Biden says decision on gas tax holiday may come this week
By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he will decide by the end of the…
Continue Reading Marcos to serve as agriculture chief amid food crisis fears
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has expressed concern about rising food prices caused in part by the war…
Continue Reading Lithuania defends ban on some goods to Russia’s Kaliningrad
By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is defending its decision to bar rail transit from Russia to a Russian Baltic…
Continue Reading Despite Western arms, Ukraine is outgunned in the east
By ANDREA ROSA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Holed up in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian troops keep a…
Continue Reading Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on cryptocurrency market turmoil
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Circle is the company behind USD Coin, the second-largest so-called “stablecoin” in the crypto…
Continue Reading Germany sticks to 2030 coal exit target amid energy worries
BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries…
Continue Reading German officials seize apartments of Russian lawmaker, wife
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have seized three apartments and a bank account owned by a Russian lawmaker and his wife under European…
Continue Reading France reshaped: Election emboldens Le Pen, undercuts Macron
By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France faced an ecstatic Marine Le Pen on Monday after her party’s far-right…
Continue Reading Liz Weston: Is medical debt vanishing from credit reports?
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet The three credit bureaus have promised to remove nearly 70% of medical debts from consumer credit reports within the next…
Continue Reading ‘It’s just hell there’: Russia still pounds eastern Ukraine
By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military machine is persevering in its ferocious effort to…
Continue Reading For K-pop supergroup BTS, questions remain about its future
By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The surprise announcement by BTS last week that they were taking a break to focus on…
Continue Reading UK set for national railway strike as last-ditch talks fail
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes in decades after last-minute talks between a union and…
Continue Reading How much for gas? Around the world, pain is felt at the pump
By DANIEL NIEMANN, PAOLA CORONA, JADE LE DELEY and HAU DINH Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany,…
Continue Reading World shares mixed; bitcoin holds steady near $20,000
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European benchmarks were higher Monday after most Asian markets retreated, while the price of…
Continue Reading This Week: Powell testimony, FedEx results, May home sales
The Associated Press Fed Chair Jerome Powell begins two days of Congressional testimony on Wednesday. FedEx reports quarterly results on Thursday.…
Continue Reading Starbucks head of North America business leaving company
By The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Rossann Williams, Starbucks’ North America president who’s been a prominent figure in the company’s…
Continue Reading Bitcoin inches up above psychological threshold of $20,000
OAKLAND, California (AP) — The price of a bitcoin has inched above $20,000 after the broader crypto selloff dragged it below the psychological…
Continue Reading Juneteenth celebrations emphasize ending racial disparities
By JAMIE STENGLE and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — After Opal Lee led hundreds in a walk through her Texas hometown to celebrate…
Continue Reading New US Lego factory raises concerns about North American HQ
ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Connecticut say the decision of Lego Group to build a new factory in Virginia won’t affect the company’s…
Continue Reading Bitcoin-boosting Salvadoran leader asks for patience
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency…
Continue Reading Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives
By The Associated Press Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. Here’s a look at…
Continue Reading Prada mixes nostalgia and grunge for summer 2023 menswear
By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons offered a nostalgia play for next season, mixing gingham, coming from…
Continue Reading ‘Lightyear’ stays earthbound, ‘Jurassic World’ holds No. 1
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Lightyear” did not go to infinity (or beyond) in its first weekend in theaters: Pixar’s first major theatrical…
Continue Reading Yellen: Recession not inevitable, gas tax holiday weighed
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that she expects the U.S. economy to slow…
Continue Reading Macron alliance projected to lose parliamentary majority
By SYLVIE CORBET and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance was projected to lose its…
Continue Reading Spain, Germany battle wildfires amid unusual heat wave
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in Spain and Germany area struggling to contain wildfires amid an unusual…
Continue Reading Inflation taking bite out of new infrastructure projects
By DAVID A. LIEB and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The price of a foot of water pipe in Tucson, Arizona: up 19%. The cost of a ton of asphalt in a…
Continue Reading Greek coast guard rescues 108 migrants; 4 missing
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have rescued 108 migrants from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the…
Continue Reading Zelenskyy Father’s Day post spotlights family ties amid war
By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One photograph shows a kneeling soldier kissing a child inside a subway…
Continue Reading Germany to limit use of gas for electricity production
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says the country will limit the use of gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible…
Continue Reading Maryland Apple workers face hurdles after vote to unionize
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — The historic vote by employees of a Maryland Apple store to unionize — a first for the technology giant — is a significant…
Continue Reading New park in central Bangkok gives Thais needed green space
By JERRY HARMER and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Bursting with trees, ponds, plants and birdlife, a new inner-city park is…
Continue Reading Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a…
Continue Reading Buttigieg: US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread…
Continue Reading US opens COVID vaccine to little kids; shots begin this week
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. on Saturday opened COVID-19 vaccines to infants, toddlers and preschoolers. The shots…
Continue Reading Warren Buffett’s final charity lunch draws record $19M bid
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An anonymous bidder has shelled out a record $19 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet at a steakhouse in…
Continue Reading Milan designers invoke joy, nostalgia in menswear
By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Denim, fringe and chunky rubber sliders. These are the elements of next year’s summer wardrobe…
Continue Reading EU: Turkish Cypriots must curb migrants arrivals to Cyprus
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior European Union official says breakaway Turkish Cypriots on ethnically…
Continue Reading Georgia cooperatives move to freeze nuclear costs at $8.1B
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One of the owners of a nuclear power plant being expanded in Georgia says it’s shifting costs to…
Continue Reading Big crowds take to London streets to protest soaring costs
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people have marched through central London in a protest over the soaring cost of living in Britain. Huge crowds flooded…
Continue Reading Biden, mulling tariff decision, will talk soon to China’s Xi
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he plans to talk to Chinese leader Xi Jinping soon as he…
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