Biden announces modest climate actions; pledges more to come
By SEUNG MIN KIM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat…
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German court rejects case against meat industry restrictions
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court says it has thrown out complaints against a ban on the use of subcontractors in slaughterhouses that was…
Continue Reading UK inflation surges to new 40-year high of 9.4%
LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom has accelerated to a new 40-year high, driven by rising food and fuel prices that are contributing to…
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World’s happiest countries
Despite the global pandemic and other recent challenges, happiness abounds around the world. Stacker compiled a list of the world’s happiest…
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States with the highest stroke death rate
Stacker collected information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke to find the…
Continue Reading Asia shares slip on inflation, China fears despite US rally
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly slipped Thursday as optimism over earnings was tempered by persistent concerns…
Continue Reading 4 dead, 13 injured in Tianjin gas explosion in north China
BEIJING (AP) — Four people have died in a gas explosion at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. State broadcaster…
Continue Reading Election of unpopular Sri Lankan PM invites more turmoil
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers have elected the unpopular prime minister as their new…
Continue Reading Putin warns EU that gas supplies could keep dwindling
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it is the West’s own fault that the flow of…
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Daily Harvest identifies ingredient that may have caused mystery illness in customers
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Weeks after Daily Harvest announced the voluntary recall of its French Lentil and Leek Crumbles, the company…
Continue Reading Federal monitor accuses UAW of concealing misconduct probe
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A monitor appointed by a federal judge in the wake of a United Auto Workers bribery and embezzlement…
Continue Reading Elections officials urged to prepare for shortages, delays
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security were urged…
Continue Reading Chipotle permanently shutters store that filed to unionize
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner and Chris Isidore, CNN Business Chipotle permanently closed a restaurant in Augusta, Maine that filed to form a union last…
Continue Reading Deal for $5.5B Hyundai plant in Georgia nears final approval
By JEFF AMY and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia officials are close to finalizing a deal with automaker Hyundai to build a…
Continue Reading Netflix Q2 subscriber loss widens, but not as much as feared
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix shed almost 1 million subscribers during the spring amid tougher competition…
Continue Reading Apple agrees to pay $50 million to settle issues related to its ‘butterfly’ keyboards
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit from customers who say they experienced…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday 7/19/2022
The Associated Press Wall Street rallied Tuesday to its best day in three weeks as more reports pour in on how much profit companies made during the…
Continue Reading Simon & Schuster publisher steps down to work on book
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, Dana Canedy, is stepping down to…
Continue Reading NCR, Hasbro rise; IBM, Signature Bank fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: NCR, Hasbro rise; IBM, Signature Bank…
Continue Reading Netflix loses subscribers, but stops the bleeding
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix reported Tuesday that it lost 970,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2022 — a number far lower than…
Continue Reading Home building stalls as the real estate market cools. That won’t help affordability
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home builders are hitting the brakes as building costs rise and prospective buyers get priced out of the market. June…
Continue Reading Netflix’s vision for the future of streaming: More expensive or less convenient
CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix lost roughly a million customers last quarter — the most in the company’s 25-year history. But it…
Continue Reading He went to orbit on a SpaceX rocket. Now, he’s working for its archrival
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business One of four passengers who joined SpaceX’s first-ever space tourism mission last year and who spent months…
Continue Reading CDC endorses more traditional Novavax COVID shot for adults
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax — a…
Continue Reading Starbucks CEO on store closings: ‘There are going to be many more’
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Starbucks may not be done closing stores over safety concerns. “We are beginning to close…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery rose $1.62 to $104.22 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for September delivery rose…
Continue Reading Chipotle closes store in Maine, thwarting union efforts
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain. Employees at the Augusta,…
Continue Reading Highway safety agency running ads in effort to curb speeding
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency says it will spend $8 million on ads aimed at stemming the rising number of traffic…
Continue Reading Amazon sues administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups that allegedly brokered fake online reviews
By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon said Tuesday it has sued the administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups allegedly responsible for facilitating the…
Continue Reading Biden administration pushes to close the growing cybersecurity workforce gap
By Brian Fung, CNN Business The Biden administration is pushing to fill hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs in the United States as part of a…
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