Governments ramp up demands for user info, Twitter warns
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove…
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Last year’s backpack: Tapped out families are struggling to pay for back to school purchases
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Shopping for back-to-school essentials is becoming a real struggle for families whose household budgets are…
Continue Reading Congress OKs bill to aid computer chip firms, counter China
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific…
Continue Reading Facebook ends funding for US news partnerships program
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in…
Continue Reading Feds: $401M will add high-speed internet to rural US places
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is pledging $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve…
Continue Reading 2nd state in Mexico begins avocado exports to U.S. market
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. consumers are finally getting the chance to try avocados from a second state in Mexico…
Continue Reading Georgia county files suit to force land sale for spaceport
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on…
Continue Reading Russia fines WhatsApp, Snapchat over data storage
LONDON (AP) — Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers as part…
Continue Reading PBS series, AP detail toll of Russian invasion of Ukraine
By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two documentaries detailing the punishing effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine will air on…
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Tiny birth control stock soars following Roe v. Wade overturn
CNN By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business There’s a saying on Wall Street that traders often sell the news. Well, that hasn’t been the case…
Continue Reading Tiny birth control stock soars following Roe v. Wade overturn
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business There’s a saying on Wall Street that traders often sell the news. Well, that hasn’t been the case with…
Continue Reading UAW rescinds strike pay increase at annual convention
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Members of the United Auto Workers union have rescinded an increase in strike pay that had been approved earlier in…
Continue Reading Why Apple can’t quit China
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business For close to two decades, Apple and China have been inextricably linked. The world’s most populous country not…
Continue Reading Southwest posts record revenue but warns of rising costs
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines’ second-quarter profit doubled to $760 million on record revenue, but the…
Continue Reading China backs away from growth goal, sticks to virus controls
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won’t hit its official 5.5%…
Continue Reading Gov’t: US Bank workers opened fake accounts for sales goals
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers’…
Continue Reading Mortgage rates fall as fears about the US economy loom
By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates dropped last week as fears grow that the US economy is entering a recession. The 30-year fixed-rate…
Continue Reading Biden hails economic bill amid signs of broad Dem support
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care…
Continue Reading Average US long-term mortgage rates retreat to 5.3%
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates retreated this week just as the Federal Reserve announced…
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JetBlue announces a deal to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion
QUEENS, New York — JetBlue Airways announced on Thursday that it would purchase Spirit Airlines, a combination that would create America’s…
Continue Reading Pfizer’s Comirnaty, Paxlovid push Q2 sales to new heights
By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers Sales of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and treatment in the second quarter propelled the…
Continue Reading Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but the previous week’s number was…
Continue Reading Cyprus, Greece, look to EU if Turkey renews gas search
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The foreign minister of Cyprus says his government and Greece will consult with…
Continue Reading In a 3rd test, Facebook still fails to block hate speech
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya, according to a new report from…
Continue Reading 1st Trader Joe’s union approved at Massachusetts store
By MARK PRATT Associated Press Employees at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Massachusetts on Thursday became the latest workers at a major company to…
Continue Reading German inflation rate slips again in July from month before
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate has declined slightly for the second consecutive month, but July’s pace of 7.5% is still within…
Continue Reading US economy contracts again, fueling recession fears
By Martha White and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank again in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday.…
Continue Reading US economy contracts again, fueling recession fears
CNN By Martha White and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank again in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said…
Continue Reading US economy shrinks for a 2nd quarter, raising recession fear
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at…
Continue Reading Spain’s govt wants windfall tax on banks, energy companies
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government wants large energy companies and banks to pay a windfall tax, which officials hope will…
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