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…
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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…
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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
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…
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…
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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…
Continue Reading Bulgaria’s president tries to unlock political crisis
By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has launched talks with all political parties represented in…
Continue Reading Energy saved US markets last quarter. Now the sector is losing power
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US markets took a beating on Thursday as big bank earnings delivered disappointing results. Markets and the economy…
Continue Reading EU takes Hungary to highest court over LGBT, media rules
By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has intensified its legal standoff with Hungary by…
Continue Reading Wells Fargo profit falls buy loan growth buoys investors
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, saw its second-quarter revenue and profit decline as rising…
Continue Reading Italy enters into political uncertainty after 5-Stars balk
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is entering five days of political and financial uncertainty after the 5-Star Movement…
Continue Reading Russian cruise missiles rain down on southern Ukrainian city
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers struck a southeastern Ukrainian…
Continue Reading Buffalo market reopens to debate over healing, sensitivity
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Cariol Horne started her morning outside the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, placing white…
Continue Reading Toyota’s Japan flagship Crown car to debut on global markets
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s flagship model in Japan, the Crown, is going on sale around the world for the first…
Continue Reading Stocks end higher on Wall Street, still down for the week
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a week of losses with a broad rally for stocks Friday, as investors…
Continue Reading G20 finance leaders in Bali to tackle Ukraine, inflation
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are meeting…
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