California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Giving rivers room to breathe by restoring their floodplains is at the center of…
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Judge rules Amazon must reinstate fired warehouse worker
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic after…
Continue Reading Rare overhaul of powerful US nuclear test reactor completed
By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Scientists in Idaho have completed a rare overhaul of one of the world’s most powerful…
Continue Reading Officials say bird flu found at 3rd Indiana duck farm
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say avian influenza has been detected at a third northern Indiana duck farm. The Indiana State Board of Animal…
Continue Reading Oklahoma governor seeks massive incentives to lure company
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is asking lawmakers to approve a massive package of financial…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Monday
The Associated Press Stocks closed slightly lower after a wobbly day of trading Monday as worries about rising interest rates and high inflation keep…
Continue Reading Southwest Gas, Bank of America rise; Schwab, DiDi fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Southwest Gas, Bank of America rise; Schwab, DiDi…
Continue Reading California store owner charged in errant shooting of girl
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A co-owner of a Southern California shoe store who allegedly wounded a 9-year-old girl while shooting at shoplifters…
Continue Reading US wildlife officials aim to address illegal wolf killings
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prompted by a court order, federal wildlife managers have issued a new draft plan…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue Reading Nebraska law will advance proposed Colorado canal project
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a law Monday that will allow the state to move forward with plans to build a canal in…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What Twitter’s ‘poison pill’ is supposed to do
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover attempt with a “poison pill” — a…
Continue Reading Bahrain confirms firm’s talks to buy AC Milan for $1.1B
MILAN (AP) — Bahrain’s government has announced that a private equity firm based in the country is in “exclusive talks” to buy seven-time…
Continue Reading Yellen to see Ukraine PM, avoid Russians at global meetings
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to meet with Ukraine’s prime minister during this…
Continue Reading Florida judge voids US mask mandate for planes, other travel
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass…
Continue Reading Ukraine rejects Serbian bomb threat claims on Russia flights
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ukraine has rejected as baseless and false the accusations made by Serbia’s president that Ukraine’s secret service is…
Continue Reading Police speak to Scottish leader Sturgeon over mask slip-up
LONDON (AP) — Police said Monday that they spoke to Scotland’s leader to remind her about sticking to coronavirus mask rules after she was filmed…
Continue Reading Natural gas pipeline future in doubt after SCOTUS rejection
By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a St. Louis-based natural gas company’s appeal of a lower court’s decision…
Continue Reading J&J’s Janssen settles with WVa for $99M in opioid lawsuit
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive $99 million in a settlement finalized with Johnson &…
Continue Reading Shareholders await Musk’s next move in Twitter takeover bid
By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — Twitter has dropped a major roadblock in front of Elon Musk’s effort to…
Continue Reading German bosses, unions jointly oppose boycott of Russian gas
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s employers and trade unions have joined together in opposing an immediate European Union ban on natural gas imports from…
Continue Reading Justices reject states’ appeal over cap on tax deductibility
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland to the 2017 tax law that capped…
Continue Reading Spyware use on separatists in Spain “extensive,” group says
By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A cybersecurity rights group says the phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain’s…
Continue Reading Insider Q&A: SAP-CEO-Christian Klein
By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Christian Klein was a teenager the first time he set foot in SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf, Germany as…
Continue Reading Bank of America Q1 profits fall 12%, much less than rivals
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America posted a 12% decline in first-quarter profits from a year earlier, a decline that…
Continue Reading France: EU fraud agency investigating candidate Le Pen
By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the EU fraud agency accusing French far-right…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What does Infowars’ bankruptcy filing mean?
By PAUL J. WEBER and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Infowars has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website’s…
Continue Reading Liz Weston: Find out and fix what big data says about you
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Information about you — things you may have thought were private — is stored in databases operated by consumer…
Continue Reading Biden to require US-made steel, iron for infrastructure
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking a key step to ensure federal dollars will support U.S.…
Continue Reading On Tax Day, an extension may be better than rushing a return
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Monday is Tax Day, the federal deadline for individual tax filings and payments. The IRS…
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