Pandemic, inflation keeps need for assistance for El Paso families
EL PASO, Texas — Inflation has been hitting many people hard with rising gas and food prices, driving more people to go to food banks. But the El…
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Reports: Musk demands months for trial prep in Twitter suit
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk fired back Friday at Twitter’s lawsuit seeking to force him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the…
Continue Reading Fired Southwest flight attendant wins $5.1 million verdict
DALLAS (AP) — A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sparring with her union president over abortion and other issues won…
Continue Reading Reporter settles with newspaper over plagiarism accusation
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A journalist has settled a lawsuit arguing she was treated unfairly when she lost her job at a North Carolina newspaper amid a…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday 7/15/2022
The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday following some encouraging economic data on consumer sentiment and inflation…
Continue Reading Pinterest, Citigroup rise; Innovative Industrial falls
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Pinterest, Citigroup rise; Innovative Industrial Properties…
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Biden averts freight railroad strike – for now
By Chris Isidore and Betsy Klein, CNN Business Worried about supply chain problems that are already causing problems for the nation’s economy,…
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CNN By Chris Isidore and Betsy Klein, CNN Business Worried about supply chain problems that are already causing problems for the nation’s…
Continue Reading Biden intervenes in railroad contract fight to block strike
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday blocked a freight railroad strike for at least 60 days by naming a…
Continue Reading Hertz faces lawsuit from 47 customers claiming false arrests
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business 47 Hertz customers have filed a lawsuit against the rental company that describes horror stories after they were…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell $1.81 to $97.59 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for September delivery rose $2.06…
Continue Reading 5-letter word for fun? Hasbro, NYT create Wordle board game
By MARK PRATT Associated Press The company that makes some of the world’s most iconic board games including Scrabble, Monopoly, and Clue is…
Continue Reading Stocks end tumultuous week with a rally
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US stocks surged Friday as an end-of-week rally gained momentum and sent the Dow up over 600 points. A new batch of…
Continue Reading SpaceX rockets to fly Russian cosmonauts with new NASA deal
By Jackie Wattles and Uliana Pavlova, CNN Business American and Russian astronauts will once share space aboard the same spacecraft after NASA and…
Continue Reading Moldova gets support from partners amid series of hardships
By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press SIGHISOARA, Romania (AP) — Moldova received about 600 million euros in pledges at a donors…
Continue Reading Israeli policy on ‘kosher cellphones’ outrages Haredi rabbis
By EETTA PRINCE-GIBSON Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) — Shmuli looks outside the windows of his cellular phone store fearfully. He pulls at…
Continue Reading UK issues 1st-ever ‘red’ warning for hot weather next week
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early next week,…
Continue Reading This supercharged tree might help fight climate change
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The problem with trees is that they are too slow. Part of the issue with catastrophic climate change is that, by some…
Continue Reading This supercharged tree might help fight climate change
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The problem with trees is that they are too slow. Part of the issue with catastrophic climate…
Continue Reading Mega Millions jackpot tops half a billion dollars after Friday night’s drawing
By Alisha Ebrahimji and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Mega Millions jackpot has swelled to more than half a billion dollars after nobody drew the winning six…
Continue Reading Americans are feeling slightly better about the economy, but inflation still bites
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Americans are feeling slightly better about the economy, but painfully high inflation is still keeping consumer…
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Putin reshuffles top officials, names new space agency head
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has reshuffled his top officials, naming a new head of the…
Continue Reading Employers who want workers in the office more often may be in for a fight
By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Many employers have made it clear that they want their workers to return to the office — at least part of the…
Continue Reading Some schools build affordable housing to retain teachers
By JANIE HAR Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she…
Continue Reading This one thing is pushing up the price of almost everything you buy
Martha C. White Although prices at the pump serve as one of the most prominent symbols of rampant inflation, economists are more worried about the…
Continue Reading This one thing is pushing up the price of almost everything you buy
CNN, CNN BUSINESS Martha C. White Although prices at the pump serve as one of the most prominent symbols of rampant inflation, economists are more…
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West Virginia officials to appeal opioid lawsuit decision
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia county plan to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in favor of three major U.S. drug…
Continue Reading Dock workers’ strike hits cargo handling at German ports
BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports are on strike in the latest of several walkouts that have added to pressures on shipping…
Continue Reading Retail sales up 1% in June, easing fears of a recession
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending from May to June,…
Continue Reading Growing enrollment, Optum Health propel UnitedHealth in 2Q
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer…
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