Michigan to destroy some blood spots in fight over consent
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has agreed to destroy more than 3 million dried blood spots taken from babies and…
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FDA bans Juul e-cigarettes tied to teen vaping surge
By MATTHEW PERRONE and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic…
Continue Reading Is ‘learn now, pay later’ just another student debt trap
By ANNA HELHOSKI of NerdWallet Buy now, pay later financing options are increasingly being offered by for-profit credentialing schools and boot…
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Nike is exiting Russia
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Nike is the latest Western brand to leave Russia. In a statement, the clothing manufacturer said that it has…
Continue Reading Mortgage rates rise again, pricing more buyers out of the housing market
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Mortgage rates continue to climb as the Federal Reserve seeks to tame unwieldy inflation. The 30-year fixed-rate…
Continue Reading Average long-term US mortgage rates inch up to 5.81%
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week following last week’s mammoth jump,…
Continue Reading Wall Street’s bubble may be gone, but stocks can still fall
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The good news for stocks is that this year’s sell-off means they no longer look eye-wateringly…
Continue Reading Jeff Bezos’ ship, named for his mom, will no longer be used to catch rockets
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos — the billionaire founder of Amazon and rocket company Blue Origin — made a grand public announcement…
Continue Reading Warren Buffett must really love oil. Berkshire boosts Occidental Petroleum stake
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is betting that the oil boom isn’t going to end any time soon.…
Continue Reading Sanctioned Russian oligarch yacht in Dubai as pressure grows
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A sleek $156 million superyacht belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch and…
Continue Reading Opinion: The heat waves are a wake-up call: The government needs to help low-income families
Opinion by Mark Wolfe for CNN Business Perspectives Last week more than 125 million people in the US were living under heat warning and advisories…
Continue Reading Fewer Americans file for jobless aid
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the U.S. job market remains robust…
Continue Reading Tesla is still battling spying suspicions in China
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Tesla cars are being kept off some roads in China as authorities bar them from sensitive areas, reportedly including a…
Continue Reading Biden teams with East Coast governors to boost offshore wind
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is launching a partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing…
Continue Reading Portugal seizes tons of cocaine hidden in banana shipments
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Portugal have found just over 8 metric tons (8.8 short tons) of cocaine concealed inside banana shipments from…
Continue Reading Why the corporate bond sell-off isn’t as scary as it looks
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Fears of a recession and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes have pushed investors to dump corporate…
Continue Reading Indian officials in Sri Lanka for talks on ailing economy
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMB0, Sri Lanka (AP) — Senior Indian officials are in Sri Lanka for talks on how…
Continue Reading Trains canceled in UK as unions stage 2nd 24-hour walkout
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Britain faced disruption Thursday as railway staff staged their second…
Continue Reading Exec returns to Toyota as adviser after ’15 arrest in Japan
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An American executive who resigned from Toyota after being arrested in Japan in 2015 on suspicion of…
Continue Reading Air France-KLM boss warns travelers: Go to the airport early
PARIS (AP) — The chief of airline alliance Air France-KLM says it will take weeks or months to get new security staff in place to lighten pressure…
Continue Reading Japan high court rejects paternity harassment allegations
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese High Court has rejected an appeal by a former brokerage manager alleging on-the-job…
Continue Reading Russians advance on war’s front line in eastern Ukraine
By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says Russia’s military has captured two villages in eastern…
Continue Reading Norway central bank hikes key policy interest rate to 1.25%
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate from 0.75%  to 1.25%. In a statement on Thursday,…
Continue Reading WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As the World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee to consider if the spiraling…
Continue Reading Germany declares gas crisis as Russia cuts supplies to Europe
By Nadine Schmidt and Mark Thompson, CNN Business Europe’s biggest economy is now officially running short of natural gas and is escalating a…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Why Sri Lanka’s economy collapsed and what’s next
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister says the island nation’s…
Continue Reading European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for EU membership
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU…
Continue Reading Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks
By KELVIN CHAN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After two years of pandemic restrictions, travel demand is back, but airlines and…
Continue Reading Germany faces natural gas ‘crisis,’ raises warning level
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies,…
Continue Reading Turkey battles wind-driven wildfire near resort for 3rd day
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Firefighting crews are battling a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened swaths of pine forest near a popular resort in…
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