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Judge loosens Apple’s grip on app store in Epic decision
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Reporter SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive…
Continue Reading Giuliani associate pleads guilty in campaign donation case
By JIM MUSTIAN, LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida businessman who gained notoriety for helping Rudy…
Continue Reading CONMEBOL, Klopp and Nagelsmann decry biennial World Cup push
By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — South American football’s governing body has joined Europe in opposing FIFA’s push for…
Continue Reading US investigating airlines over slow refunds during pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Department is detailing efforts it’s making to help airline customers who didn’t get refunds after…
Continue Reading Harvard University will divest itself from fossil fuels
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will divest itself from holdings in fossil fuels. President Lawrence Bacow said Thursday that the university has…
Continue Reading India seeks Australian investment in defense industry
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India is seeking investment from Australia’s defense industry as the two countries discuss ways…
Continue Reading Policy center says debt limit could be hit in mid-October
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A think tanks says the government will likely face an unprecedented default on its debt…
Continue Reading US producer prices jump an unprecedented 8.3% in August
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month from August 2020, the biggest annual…
Continue Reading DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC over pandemic fee caps
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Three of the nation’s largest food delivery companies are suing New York City over a limit on fees it put in…
Continue Reading EU approves funds to Italy’s ITA, lifts Alitalia burden
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission has cleared an injection of Italian funds into new airline ITA and says the…
Continue Reading For new hires, remote work brings challenges, opportunities
By UROOBA JAMAL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Many young workers around the world have entered the workforce during the past 18 months without…
Continue Reading White House competition council seeks lower consumer prices
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press At the first meeting of a new White House council on U.S. economic conditions, participants are highlighting at least…
Continue Reading Russia says construction of Nord Stream 2 completed
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom says it has completed the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, a…
Continue Reading Britain’s economic growth slowed more than expected in July
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s economic growth slowed more than expected in July as concern about the spread of the highly contagious delta variant of…
Continue Reading ‘Homecoming’ to a ghost town sparks Greek Cypriot anguish
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press VAROSHA, Cyprus (AP) — There’s a groundswell of anger among thousands of Greek Cypriot refugees who…
Continue Reading Tech slide pulls S&P 500 down for its 5th straight loss
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended an up-and-down day lower on Wall Street, giving the S&P 500 its fifth…
Continue Reading New Orleans gets some Ida relief, but rural pain will linger
By STACEY PLAISANCE and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is showing signs of making a comeback nearly two weeks after…
Continue Reading Vaccine mandate spawns new fear: finding and keeping workers
By TOM KRISHER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will…
Continue Reading UN report: Afghanistan teeters on brink of universal poverty
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations development agency says Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of…
Continue Reading Endo latest company to settle with New York over opioids
NEW YORK (AP) — The drugmaker Endo International is the latest company to settle a New York case over opioids. The Dublin-based company will pay…
Continue Reading ‘Paradise’: Australian states free of COVID resist opening
By TRISTAN LAVALETTE and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press PERTH, Australia (AP) — Anyone could be forgiven for forgetting a pandemic ever happened on…
Continue Reading DOJ: San Francisco trash company to pay $36M for bribery
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s trash disposal company has agreed to pay $36 million in criminal penalties for its role in a…
Continue Reading California may require menstrual products in public schools
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California public schools and colleges would have to stock their restrooms with free…
Continue Reading Oil-soaked birds found near oil spill at refinery after Ida
By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana wildlife officials say they have documented more than 100 oil-soaked birds after…
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U.S. jobless claims reach a pandemic low as economy recovers
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to…
Continue Reading Amazon to pay hourly worker’s college tuition
By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Thursday that it will pay the full college tuition for hourly workers starting next…
Continue Reading Former Kansas legislator charged with COVID relief fraud
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted former Kansas state Rep. Michael Capps on 19 counts alleging that he tried to defraud…
Continue Reading $6 billion project to untangle O’Hare runways completed
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Government and airline officials are celebrating the conclusion of a 16-year, $6 billion project to…
Continue Reading McDonald’s introducing McPlant vegan burger in UK, Ireland
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s will begin selling a vegan burger in the United Kingdom and Ireland this month. The McPlant burger,…
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