Start of school year fuels California job growth in August
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate declined slightly in August as the state added 104,300…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate declined slightly in August as the state added 104,300…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has funded organizations that received the most money for racial equity in 27…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s prime minister has boasted of barging uninvited into a video conference…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and…
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a host at a popular New York City restaurant was assaulted by three women from Texas…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s incoming finance minister has signed a contract with a New York-based company to…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Boston’s famous Skinny House has sold for a nice fat price. Zillow reports that the home that hit the market in August for $1.2…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations says cuts in greenhouse gas emissions so far pledged by governments…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying to hammer out the world’s next steps…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations says a new report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway”…
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — During his time as Union Pacific’s CEO, Lance Fritz has had to find ways to keep the freight…
Continue ReadingTURIN, Italy (AP) — Juventus has reported a loss of 210 million euros for the 2020-21 financial year. The loss is attributed mainly to the…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press LA PINE, Ore. (AP) — From dusty towns to forests in the West, illegal marijuana growers are taking water in…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential federal advisory panel has overwhelmingly rejected a plan…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s city government says it is buying some 14,750 apartments from two large corporate landlords for 2.46 billion euros ($2.9…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is simplifying its rules for international travel to England during the…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a mock-up of the next generation of greener super high-speed trains, known in France as…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — United Airlines suffered a brief system outage and the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop of…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Facing pressure from the Kremlin, Apple and Google removed an opposition-created…
Continue ReadingBy RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Youth members of India’s main opposition Congress party have clashed with police during a street…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Former officials of the World Bank are under pressure after an investigation found that they pressured staff members to alter…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing Co. will invest $200 million to…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press House Democrats said Friday they planned to take action next week to suspend the cap on the government’s borrowing…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who arguably did more than anyone else to inspire…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A civil trial has opened in Austria over the government’s handling of a coronavirus outbreak…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bronze statue was unveiled in Hungary’s capital on Thursday which its creators say is…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese regulators have set up a platform that allows the public to report on gaming companies they believe are violating…
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, marking a feeble ending to an up-and-down week of…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China has applied to join an 11-nation Asia-Pacific free trade group in an effort to increase its influence over international…
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