Man gets nearly 22 years for $60M film finance fraud scheme
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man claiming to be a film financier has been sentenced in Florida to nearly 22 years in federal prison for…
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Mexican telephone union back to work, government to mediate
MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 30,000 workers at Mexico’s largest fixed-line telephone and internet company have agreed to go back to work while the…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $1.65 to $94.70 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for September delivery fell 66…
Continue Reading Jay Carney, Amazon’s top policy exec, leaves for Airbnb
By HALELUYA HADERO and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The top policy and communications executive at Amazon and a…
Continue Reading Volkswagen CEO, facing series of setbacks, will step down
VIENNA (AP) — Herbert Diess, the Volkswagen CEO whose image had been tarnished in the fallout from the German automaker’s emissions-cheating…
Continue Reading In your debt: 3 times debt can be a helpful tool
By SARA RATHNER NerdWallet You may have learned that all debt is bad, but sometimes debt can make the things you need or want possible. A loan can…
Continue Reading Hyundai exec vows to improve company’s safety track record
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Clogged oil ports, electrical shorts and leaks of brake fluid are only some of the safety problems…
Continue Reading Democrats widen scrutiny of tech over abortion data privacy
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in…
Continue Reading Poland’s leader seeks to assure public of energy security
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has sought to reassure the public that the country will have sufficient winter supplies of natural…
Continue Reading Russia’s central bank slashes rate, saying inflation slows
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian central bank diverged from its Western counterparts by slashing its key interest rate just a month after dropping it to…
Continue Reading Lululemon workers in DC file for a union election
Associated Press Lululemon workers in Washington, D.C. are filing to hold a union election, joining workers at other major companies aiming to…
Continue Reading UK blames France as travelers face hours-long port delays
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Truck drivers and Britons heading off on holiday by ferry faced hours-long waits at the port of…
Continue Reading Twitter, in Musk fight, posts surprising drop in revenue
By KELVIN CHAN and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — Twitter is reporting a quarterly loss as revenue slipped even as user…
Continue Reading EU drug regulator recommends clearing vaccine for monkeypox
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic should also be authorized against monkeypox as an…
Continue Reading AmEx 2Q profits fall 14% despite higher cardmember spending
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Express’ profits fell 14% in the second quarter, the company said Friday, as higher…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka president gets long-sought win, faces challenges
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new president has always aspired to the…
Continue Reading ‘A beacon of hope’: Ukraine, Russia sign grain export deal
By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United…
Continue Reading Japan OKs preparation step for Fukushima plant water release
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved methods and facilities for the release of treated…
Continue Reading Barcelona sells 2nd package of Spanish league TV rights
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona has sold a second package of its television rights to an American investment firm for an undisclosed amount as…
Continue Reading German government agrees on bailout for energy supplier
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government will take a roughly 30% stake in energy supplier Uniper as part of a rescue…
Continue Reading Tomorrow’s ‘Top Gun’ might have drone wingman, use AI
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Maverick’s next wingman could be a drone. In the movies, fighter pilots are…
Continue Reading Slump for tech chops off chunk of Wall Street’s winning week
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped Friday, giving back some of their gains from earlier in the week as worries brewed…
Continue Reading Sri Lankan troops forcefully clear protesters; new PM named
By KRISHAN FRANCIS, RAFIQ MAQBOOL and RISHI LEKHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan forces have violently cleared the main…
Continue Reading US files another labor complaint against Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has filed its fifth labor complaint about alleged violations of union organizing rights in Mexico.  The…
Continue Reading Drought drives Las Vegas to cap size of home swimming pools
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial…
Continue Reading Georgia spaceport land deal is off, site owner says
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell…
Continue Reading YouTube to remove videos spreading abortion falsehoods
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — YouTube will begin removing misleading videos about abortion in response to falsehoods being spread about the procedure…
Continue Reading Events in disappearance of former Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa
By The Associated Press A chronology of events in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters union: July 30, 1975 — Hoffa…
Continue Reading Feds issue guidance on cleanup plan for abandoned coal mines
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued guidance for nearly $725 million in funding available this fiscal year for…
Continue Reading Gov seeks to salvage aluminum mill deal promised to Kentucky
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has made a pitch to a company that took over plans to build an aluminum…
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