Alaska lawmakers face crunch to pay checks from oil wealth
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska residents don’t know how much money they might get from the state’s oil wealth…
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By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska residents don’t know how much money they might get from the state’s oil wealth…
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has voted to guarantee people can call out their bosses publicly…
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The mayor of Honolulu says the city will soon require patrons of restaurants, bars, museums,…
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in the Buffalo area filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Ida knocked out all eight transmission lines that deliver power to New Orleans,…
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By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The Colorado secretary of state has sued to remove a rural county’s election…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Synaptics, Amazon rise; Entergy, United Airlines…
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By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press The electric utility Griddy Energy has reached a settlement with Texas state officials over crushing electric bills…
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The Associated Press Stocks wound up mixed on Wall Street Monday, with the S&P 500 index managing just enough of a gain to mark another record…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by state pollution regulators to…
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a new health office that will prod hospitals to…
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BERLIN (AP) — A labor union representing German train drivers said its members will launch a third strike this week in an escalating pay dispute…
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By ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The speed limit for most of Paris is now 30 kilometers per hour (less than…
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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters are tackling remaining hot spots in a 20-story apartment building in Milan that…
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The U.N. environment office says Algeria has become the last country in the world to stop selling…
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By SAM METZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Fire is forcing thousands of people to rush to leave…
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BEIJING (AP) — China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The chief contractor at a failed multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina has…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Please disregard US–NYC Subway Disruption, published on Aug. 30, 2021, and datelined in NEW YORK. It was sent when another…
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — PNC Bank is the latest large U.S. financial services company to increase wages in a bid to keep and…
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Before starting advocacy group the Student Borrower Protection Center, Seth Frotman was the Student…
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By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Parliament on Monday failed to elect a new president to the Baltic country…
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By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Video games are made for entertainment, of course, but they give parents opportunities to talk about saving and…
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has recommended that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from…
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BEIJING (AP) — Universal Studios says it will open its first theme park in China in September after six years of construction. The company said…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower in muted trading on continuing concerns about surging COVID-19…
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The Associated Press The Conference Board issues its latest U.S. consumer confidence index Tuesday. The Commerce Department delivers its monthly U.S.…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors interpreted comments from the head of the U.S. Federal…
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By PAUL WISEMAN and DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi having lost…
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PLANO, Texas (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine if there is a connection between a confrontation at a Dallas suburb in which police…
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Candyman” has hooked the top spot at the North American box office. The…
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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline dropped 2 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.23 per gallon. Industry…
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By MICHAEL CASEY and MICHELLE LIU Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — States have begun to ramp up the amount of rental assistance reaching…
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MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say that a passenger ferry has run aground on an islet near the Spanish island of Ibiza and a child and a man…
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By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — Summer tourism has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations in Croatia this year.…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writers As governments, corporations and charity groups rush to get their citizens and employees out…
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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — A Tesla using its partially automated driving system has slammed into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser on an interstate…
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By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Companies evacuated oil and gas platforms south of Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida but a far greater worry was…
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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican efforts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have led to voting…
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By The Associated Press From the Great Wall of China to the picturesque Himalayan mountains of India, Asia’s tourist destinations are looking to…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amazon is teaming with payments company Affirm to offer online shoppers a buy-now-pay-later option that does not involve…
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says it’s fixed a flaw in its cloud computing platform that cybersecurity researchers warned could have enabled…
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina-based Bojangles chain of restaurants says it will close all of its company-owned establishments on two…
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The Associated Press Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Bill.com, Workday rise; Peloton Interactive, Ollie’s…
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The Associated Press Stocks rallied to more record highs Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve said it’s still far from pulling interest…
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tenant advocates and court officials were gearing up Friday for what some fear will be a wave of…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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