Wall Street closes worst week since 2020 with slight gain
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its most punishing week since the 2020 coronavirus…
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WTO ministers reach deals on fisheries, food, COVID vaccines
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — World Trade Organization members have reached a string of deals and commitments aimed to limit…
Continue Reading Takeaways from AP interview: Biden on inflation, US psyche
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sat down with The Associated Press to discuss the state of the…
Continue Reading Costa Rica chaos a warning that ransomware threat remains
By ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers unable to get paychecks. Tax and customs systems paralyzed. Health…
Continue Reading Montana governor under fire for vacationing during flood
By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — As punishing floods tore through Yellowstone National Park and…
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Rare interview by Biden reveals at least nine insights about his presidency
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business President Biden has given very few interviews this year. That fact makes his half-hour sit-down with Associated Press…
Continue Reading Flight cancellations create a bad travel day across the US
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Airlines are canceling more than 1,500 flights across the U.S. in one of the worst days yet in the summer travel…
Continue Reading Lyft agrees to $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over allegations that it failed to…
Continue Reading Bird flu outbreak waning but threat of virus lingers
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A bird flu outbreak in the U.S. that led to the deaths of more than 40 million chickens and…
Continue Reading Heat stress blamed for thousands of cattle deaths in Kansas
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of cattle in feedlots in southwestern Kansas have died of heat stress due to…
Continue Reading Kentucky court delves into use of cell phones for tracking
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky’s Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Thursday
The Associated Press Stocks slumped again on Wall Street Thursday, erasing another 3.3% from the S&P 500 and bringing the index 23.6% below the…
Continue Reading Abbott, Allstate fall; Procter & Gamble, NexTier rise
Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Abbott, Allstate fall; Procter & Gamble, NexTier…
Continue Reading AP Interview: Biden says a recession is ‘not inevitable’
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are “really, really down” after a…
Continue Reading Biden signs new shipping law he says can cut consumer costs
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to make shipping goods across oceans…
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Doña Ana County residents frustrated by commercial cannabis grow in neighborhood
DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico – A few dozen residents of the GreyFox subdivision north of Las Cruces approached Doña Ana County commissioners with…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for July delivery rose $2.27 to $117.58 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for August delivery rose $1.30…
Continue Reading Avenatti pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges in California
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti has pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and a…
Continue Reading New Jersey sues Ford over mining that tainted tribal land
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials are suing Ford Motor Co. because they say the automaker contaminated the…
Continue Reading VP Harris launches task force on online harassment, abuse
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials on Thursday launched a task force…
Continue Reading New Mexico reaches $32M settlement over 2015 mine spill
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico and the U.S. government have reached a $32 million settlement over a…
Continue Reading Dutch airport Schiphol to cut flights over busy summer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Travelers beware: The Netherlands’ busiest airport is reining in flight departures over its busy summer period.…
Continue Reading Petco is launching stores for a new group of customers: cows, goats and horses
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Horses, cows, goats, pigs and sheep have food and grooming needs, too, and Petco is stepping up to deliver its…
Continue Reading USA Today removes 23 stories after probe finds reporter apparently ‘fabricated’ quotes
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business USA Today on Thursday said that it had removed 23 stories from its website after an internal investigation found that…
Continue Reading Elon Musk addresses layoffs, remote work and ‘free speech’ during his first meeting with Twitter employees
By Clare Duffy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Elon Musk on Thursday doubled down on his desire to relax content restrictions on Twitter…
Continue Reading The best cure for high gas prices could be — high gas prices
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business There’s not a lot that Joe Biden, Congress or the Federal Reserve can do to bring down the record high gas…
Continue Reading How to recession proof your portfolio
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at a Bloomberg event earlier this month that he thinks the ridesharing and food…
Continue Reading Swiss raise interest rate by 1/2 point amid inflation fears
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s central bank has announced a one-half of a percentage point increase to a key interest rate Thursday, the first…
Continue Reading Shoppers are buying less and switching to store brands, Kroger says
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Decades-high inflation is changing US consumers’ grocery habits. Kroger, the nation’s largest…
Continue Reading Production at bedeviled baby formula factory halted by storm
By TOM MURPHY and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that…
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