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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Weather has long been a fickle farmhand, devastating fields one year while delivering bountiful harvests the next.…
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By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds The Toyota bZ4X is the automaker’s first mass-market electric vehicle. Though it’s about the same size as a RAV4, the…
Continue Reading China’s Xi visits Kazakhstan ahead of summit with Putin
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic. Xi’s stop…
Continue Reading As monkeypox drops in the West, still no vaccines for Africa
By MARIA CHENG and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — With monkeypox cases subsiding in Europe and parts of North America, many…
Continue Reading EU court largely upholds $4B Google Android antitrust fine
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld a huge fine issued to Google by the…
Continue Reading German government sells its last shares in Lufthansa
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has sold its last shares in the country’s biggest airline, Lufthansa, which it stepped in to rescue at the…
Continue Reading Energy crisis: EU chief wants to tap excess producer profits
By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to cap the revenue of…
Continue Reading South Korea fines Google, Meta over privacy violations
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Google and Meta a combined 100 billion won…
Continue Reading UK inflation dips slightly in August to 9.9%
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom slowed slightly in August as a drop in gasoline and diesel fuel…
Continue Reading China grants gaming license to NetEase, 1st since crackdown
By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China has granted a game license to its second largest gaming firm, NetEase, the first in over a…
Continue Reading A London diaspora district remembers a queen — ambivalently
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In a church in a West London district known locally as Little India, a book of condolence for Queen…
Continue Reading Markets steady after worst day for US stocks since June 2020
By Michelle Toh and Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Markets steadied early Wednesday after US stocks logged their worst day since June 2020, plunging on…
Continue Reading ‘Car guy’ Biden touts electric vehicles at Detroit auto show
By COLLEEN LONG and TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden, a “car guy” with his own vintage Corvette, showcased his…
Continue Reading Driven by consumers, US inflation grows more persistent
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation is showing signs of entering a more stubborn phase that will likely…
Continue Reading Asian shares mostly higher after wobbly gains on Wall St
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday after a wobbly day of trading yielded modest gains on Wall…
Continue Reading China keeps West guessing about economic pressure on Russia
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is keeping the West guessing about whether Beijing will cooperate with…
Continue Reading California 1st to make firms disclose social media policies
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will impose first-of-its-kind requirements on social media companies to…
Continue Reading Queen’s death renews interest in UK memorabilia in Hong Kong
By ALICE FUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The death of Queen Elizabeth II has sparked a wave of nostalgia and renewed interest in British…
Continue Reading Russian businessman’s body found in latest mysterious death
By Uliana Pavlova, CNN Russian businessman Ivan Pechorin, the top manager for the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, has…
Continue Reading Businesses, White House plan for possible rail strike Friday
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Business and government officials are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike at…
Continue Reading Amtrak suspends some long haul routes ahead of potential freight rail strike
By Ross Levitt and Chris Isidore, CNN Amtrak announced Monday that it is preemptively suspending service on some of its long range routes, mostly out…
Continue Reading Railroad strike averted after marathon talks reach tentative deal
CNN By Chris Isidore, Vanessa Yurkevich and Jeremy Diamond, CNN Business Unions and management reached a tentative deal early Thursday that averts a…
Continue Reading Railroad strike, and the economic damage it would cause, looms closer
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business A freight railroad strike, and the economic upheaval it could cause, is getting closer and…
Continue Reading No women or minorities now run Atlantic City casinos
By WAYNE PARRY The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With the departure of the head of the Tropicana, none of Atlantic City’s nine…
Continue Reading Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to be deposed in Twitter v. Musk case
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey will be questioned on Tuesday morning by lawyers for the…
Continue Reading Twitter is unable to catch and remove foreign agents in its ranks, whistleblower testifies
By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter lacks the resources and motivation to search for and remove foreign intelligence threats within…
Continue Reading Lowry Mays, founder of largest U.S. radio group, dies at 87
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Lowry Mays, whose accidental purchase of a San Antonio radio station propelled him into the nation’s largest owner of radio…
Continue Reading Emmys reach record-low audience of 5.9 million people
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Emmy Awards reached a record-low audience of 5.9 million people on NBC Monday night. The…
Continue Reading ‘The Crown’ viewership surged on Netflix after Queen Elizabeth’s death
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Netflix viewers tuned into the show about her life. Season 1 of “The…
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