5 things to consider when looking for a new job
By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — The U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in July, meaning workers who want a new…
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 47 cents to $89.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…
Continue Reading Storms ground US air travelers as airlines cancel flights
NEW YORK (AP) — Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers. Airlines canceled about…
Continue Reading Judge: Agency keeps ignoring environment in coal region plan
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has rejected a federal agency’s plans for managing some public lands in the…
Continue Reading Dems change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in…
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A jury finds Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A Texas jury has decided to penalize Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the…
Continue Reading A jury finds Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim
CNN By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A Texas jury has decided to penalize Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the…
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New Mexico breaks record in cannabis sales
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico –New Mexico’s Cannabis Control Division revealed a record-breaking $40 million in sales of cannabis for the month of July.…
Continue Reading 5 key takeaways from the July jobs report
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — July’s jobs report was a stunner, in more ways than one. Despite raging inflation and anxiety…
Continue Reading Warner Bros. Discovery Q2 results miss Wall Street’s view
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery, which went public in April, missed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter…
Continue Reading Pipeline developer pleads no contest in pollution cases
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The developer of a major pipeline system that connects the Marcellus Shale gas field in…
Continue Reading Hourly workers still have leverage as US hiring booms
By CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — As inflation skyrockets, hourly workers keep changing jobs in pursuit of higher wages. And with…
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Inflation takes a bite out of your back-to-school shopping
Editor’s note: Submit your back-to-school photos here. EL PASO, Texas– Parents and students are getting ready for the new school year… but…
Continue Reading US agency probes Tesla crashes that killed 2 motorcyclists
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal…
Continue Reading Vatican beats deficit projections, gives uncertain outlook
ROME (AP) — The Vatican recorded a 3 million euro deficit last year, far less than the 33 million euros projected. But the Holy See said Friday…
Continue Reading Gas prices are falling. So is interest in electric cars
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business As gas prices rose in the the first three months of 2022, interest among car shoppers in hybrid and electric…
Continue Reading Mall of America reopens following shooting and lockdown
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban…
Continue Reading Greece’s intelligence chief resigns amid spyware scandal
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…
Continue Reading Amazon to buy the company behind the Roomba in a $1.7 billion deal
By Jennifer Korn Amazon has agreed to buy iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuum, in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.7 billion, including…
Continue Reading Amazon to buy vacuum maker iRobot for roughly $1.7B
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…
Continue Reading Putin hosts Erdogan for talks on trade, Ukraine, Syria
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with…
Continue Reading First, they banned facial recognition. Now they’re not so sure
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Over the past few years, a number of cities and some states enacted rules banning or restricting local police use of…
Continue Reading America has fewer open jobs. Is that reason to worry?
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For the past year, America has had a glut of open jobs. Restaurants, airlines and retail stores have raced to recruit…
Continue Reading Workers in these two industries are the only ones coming out ahead right now
By Tami Luhby, CNN At first glance, it looks like many Americans got big pay raises since the Covid-19 pandemic started. But in reality, only workers…
Continue Reading 3 more ships with grain depart Ukraine ports under UN deal
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…
Continue Reading Musk countersuit accuses Twitter of fraud over ‘bot’ count
Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…
Continue Reading Pacific rim economies in doldrums, sapped by inflation, war
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…
Continue Reading Farmers’ group: Talks with Dutch govt delivered ‘too little’
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…
Continue Reading Meta quieter on election misinformation as midterms loom
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting…
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