Firehouse Subs being bought by Canadian fast-food company
Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-based company that owns the Firehouse Subs chain is in contract to be purchased by a Canadian…
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OSHA, South Dakota pork plant settle coronavirus complaint
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal safety regulators reach an agreement with Smithfield Foods to settle a…
Continue Reading Employers eye shifting health care needs during pandemic
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Health care costs rise every year, but the nation’s biggest employers still see insurance coverage as an important…
Continue Reading US: Oil, gas leases on hold around New Mexico’s Chaco park
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior says oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of…
Continue Reading Key reason for supply shortages: Americans keep spending
By TOM KRISHER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — Take a step back from the picked-over store shelves, the stalled container ships…
Continue Reading Energy summit in UAE after COP26 stresses fossil fuel demand
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Energy ministers from across the developing world gathered in the emirate of…
Continue Reading Justices turn away VW appeals over emissions scandal suits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015…
Continue Reading E-commerce mattress maker Casper sold for about $308 million
NEW YORK (AP) — The e-commerce mattress maker Casper is being acquired and taken private for about $308 million. Shares of Casper Sleep Inc. spiked…
Continue Reading Reports: Trump selling DC hotel to investment firm for $375M
The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s opulent hotel near the White House that drew lobbyists and diplomats seeking favor with the…
Continue Reading Data center REITs fetch big money; CyrusOne sold for $11.5B
CyrusOne is being acquired for $11.5 billion, the second big sale in recent months of a real estate investment trust focused on data centers. In…
Continue Reading UAE bans some Mideast travelers from flights to Belarus
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has banned travelers from several Middle Eastern countries from…
Continue Reading Liz Weston: How to talk money with your parents this holiday
By LIZ WESTON OF NerdWallet Before you bring up money at a holiday gathering, family and caregiving experts recommend researching options so you can…
Continue Reading Shell wants to move headquarters amid cleaner energy shift
By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell proposed moving its headquarters from the Netherlands to the…
Continue Reading Airbus strikes 2nd major aircraft deal of Dubai Air Show
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airbus has clinched a major deal valued into the billions of dollars to sell…
Continue Reading India opens to vaccinated foreign tourists after 18 months
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular…
Continue Reading Jeffrey Epstein faces trial by proxy: Ghislaine Maxwell
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on…
Continue Reading This Week: Tyson Foods, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret earnings
The Associated Press Tyson Foods reports fourth-quarter results Monday. Walmart reports third-quarter results on Tuesday. Victoria’s Secret…
Continue Reading Japan-US launch talks to resolve dispute over tariffs
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to launch talks aimed at settling a dispute over American…
Continue Reading Cambodia reopens 2 weeks early, buoyed by high vaccine rates
By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers two weeks earlier…
Continue Reading Asian stocks rise as Biden, Xi hold video summit
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are higher as President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping hold a summit…
Continue Reading Biden signs $1T infrastructure deal with bipartisan crowd
By JOSH BOAK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal…
Continue Reading Democrats push for paid family leave ahead of critical votes
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised advocates, and even many of her Democratic…
Continue Reading Washington seeks over $38 billion from opioid distributors
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has taken the state’s case against the nation’s three…
Continue Reading China stock exchange for entrepreneurs launches in Beijing
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A stock exchange set up in the Chinese capital to serve entrepreneurs has opened trading with 81…
Continue Reading Japan’s economy contracts on shrinking consumption, exports
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy shrank at a 3% annual rate in the July-September quarter, as private consumption…
Continue Reading Former New Orleans mayor Landrieu to manage Biden’s $1T plan
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has chosen a former New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to supervise his $1…
Continue Reading ‘Watered-down hope’: Experts wanted more from climate pact
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — While world leaders hail the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a…
Continue Reading White House confident Biden’s bill will pass House this week
By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser is expressing confidence the White House’s $1.85…
Continue Reading UK’s Johnson: Climate deal sounds ‘death knell’ for coal
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow as a “game-changing agreement” that sounded…
Continue Reading Champion race car driver, top instructor Bob Bondurant dies
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver and founder of a high-performance driving school that taught many…
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