Driver must stand trial for deadly Tesla crash in California
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a Tesla operating on autopilot must stand trial for a crash that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb, a…
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China becomes wild card in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, KRUTIKA PATHI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — China says its initiative to build ports and…
Continue Reading Hyundai announces $5.5B electric vehicle plant in Georgia
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — Hyundai Motor Group officials confirmed Friday the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge…
Continue Reading Biden: SKorean chip plant a model for deeper ties to Asia
By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden opened his trip to Asia on Friday by touring a…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka closes schools, limits work amid fuel shortage
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities closed schools and asked public officials not to come to…
Continue Reading Disinformation board’s ex-leader faced wave of online abuse
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nina Jankowicz, like so many millennials, was excited to share a social media post announcing…
Continue Reading Russia claims to have taken full control of Mariupol
By ELENA BECATOROS, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol…
Continue Reading N. Korea’s low death count questioned amid COVID-19 outbreak
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that nearly 10% of its 26 million people have fallen ill and 65 people…
Continue Reading Proposed Nebraska mine has sizeable deposit of rare elements
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The mining company that wants to extract a rare heat-resistant element from the ground under…
Continue Reading Boeing crew capsule launches to space station on test redo
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the…
Continue Reading Arizona developer’s lawyer wants to rebut US House charges
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney for an Arizona real estate developer who was referred to the Department of Justice for…
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Carbon removal technologies to get $3.5B federal investment
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government is investing in machines that suck giant amounts of carbon dioxide out…
Continue Reading Parents convicted in college scam remain free during appeal
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two men convicted of buying their kids’ way into top universities will stay out of prison…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Thursday
The Associated Press Stocks ended another volatile day lower on Wall Street Thursday, bringing the market closer to its first bear market since the…
Continue Reading Canada bans China’s Huawei Technologies from 5G networks
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Wireless carriers in Canada won’t be allowed to install Huawei equipment in their high-speed 5G…
Continue Reading Cisco, Monro fall; BJ’s Wholesale Club, Synopsis rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Cisco, Monro fall; BJ’s Wholesale Club, Synopsis…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $2.62 to $112.21 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for July delivery rose $2.93 to…
Continue Reading Relics and militants: Vatican fraud trial sprawls the globe
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s financial trial has taken a surreal turn with a defendant asserting she…
Continue Reading WhatsApp adds messaging tools to attract businesses
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer WhatsApp parent Meta is moving forward with its push to attract businesses to its popular chat app, part its…
Continue ReadingCourt tosses $300,000 hospital bill for promised $1,300 tab
The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a woman who expected to pay about $1,300 for spinal fusion…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: ESG investing and the debate surrounding it
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After starting as a niche corner of the finance world, ESG investing has since exploded to become a…
Continue Reading GOP directs culture war fury toward green investing trend
By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republicans are coming out swinging against Wall Street’s growing efforts to consider…
Continue Reading Biden forest plan stirs dispute over what counts as “old”
By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s order to protect the nation’s oldest…
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Harley-Davidson suspends production for 2 weeks, shares fall
Associated Press Harley-Davidson is announcing a two-week suspension of vehicle assembly and most shipments, citing a regulatory compliance issue…
Continue Reading 2022 is the year of all-inclusive travel, and here’s why
By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Many major hotel chains are embracing all-inclusive offerings. For example, Hyatt recently announced an integration…
Continue Reading House passes bill to crack down on gasoline ‘price gouging’
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A closely divided House has approved legislation to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil…
Continue Reading New Twitter policy aims to pierce fog of war misinformation
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is stepping up its fight against misinformation with a new policy cracking down on…
Continue Reading 20 years after spate of hospital deaths, ex-worker accused
By JIM SALTER Associated Press In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri…
Continue Reading Finland brewery launches NATO beer with ‘taste of security’
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A small brewery in Finland has launched a NATO-themed beer to mark the Nordic country’s bid to…
Continue Reading Pro-Russian hackers spread hoaxes to divide Ukraine, allies
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press As Ukrainian refugees flooded into Poland to escape Russia’s invasion, a hacking group aligned with the…
Continue Reading Lawmakers want Ohio State’s 2010 football season restored
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — House lawmakers have approved a symbolic resolution calling for the restoration of…
Continue Reading Home sales tumble again as mortgage rates surge
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in April for the third month in a row as mortgage rates surged,…
Continue Reading Lebanon receives Interpol notice for auto tycoon Ghosn
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese judicial officials say Beirut has received from Interpol a wanted notice for disgraced auto…
Continue Reading Fed nominee Michael Barr calls inflation ‘far too high’
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to be the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator…
Continue Reading Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates edge down to 5.25%
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates retreated modestly this week, but interest on the key…
Continue Reading FDA head: Baby formula factory could reopen by next week
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner says a shuttered baby formula factory…
Continue Reading Kohl’s cuts annual forecast, as it gets stung with inflation
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s Corp. cut its earnings forecast, as the department store joins a string of…
Continue Reading More buyers opt for adjustable-rate mortgages as rates rise
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rising interest rates are making adjustable-rate mortgages a more attractive alternative to…
Continue Reading McDonald’s era in Russia coming to a close, restaurants sold
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is selling all of its restaurants in Russia 30 years after the burger chain became a powerful…
Continue Reading ‘Twitter philanthropy’ reveals chasms in social safety net
By R.J. RICO Associated Press Practically every minute of every hour, someone sends a tweet to Bill Pulte, a 33-year-old private-equity investor and…
Continue Reading More Americans apply for jobless benefits last week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for jobless aid last week, but the total number of Americans collecting…
Continue Reading WHO clears China’s CanSino COVID vaccine for emergency use
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has granted an emergency use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by China’s CanSino…
Continue Reading Pakistani rupee drops to record low amid talks with IMF
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s currency has plummeted to an all-time record low in intraday trading against the U.S. dollar amid uncertainty about…
Continue Reading Italian tugboat sinks in the Adriatic Sea; 5 crew missing
MILAN (AP) — An Italian tugboat with six people aboard capsized and sank in the Adriatic Sea, leaving five crew members missing, Italian…
Continue Reading Indonesia lifts ban on cooking oil export as supply improves
By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is lifting a monthlong ban on palm oil export, citing improvements in the…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka limits foreign currency holdings amid crisis
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s central bank says it will lower the maximum amount of foreign…
Continue Reading Spirit tells shareholders to reject hostile bid from JetBlue
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Spirit Airlines is advising shareholders to reject a tender offer for shares from JetBlue three days after it…
Continue Reading UK freezes assets on Russian airlines, preventing slot sale
LONDON (AP) — Britain has frozen the assets of three Russian airlines, preventing them from selling landing slots at U.K. airports that are worth…
Continue Reading Park outdoors: Ford recalls SUVs due to engine fire risk
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is asking the owners of 350,000 vehicles in to take them to dealers for repairs in three recalls, including about 39,000 that…
Continue Reading Inflation, Russia-Ukraine war draw G7 finance leaders’ focus
By FATIMA HUSSEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press KOENIGSWINTER, Germany (AP) — Finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies are…
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