Peloton is burning through cash and borrowing from Wall Street to stay afloat
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Peloton’s turnaround plan can’t happen fast enough: The at-home fitness company continues to lose money…
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Judge to decide how much pharmacies owe over opioid crisis
By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A hearing began Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland that will help a judge determine how much…
Continue Reading Pfizer to spend $11.6B on migraine treatment maker Biohaven
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Pfizer is starting to put its COVID-19 cash influx to use by spending $11.6 billion to venture deeper into a new…
Continue Reading Putin urges stronger action to prevent wildfires
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged authorities to take stronger action to prevent wildfires and increase coordiation between…
Continue Reading Two Russian journalists appear to defy Putin, slamming the war in Ukraine
CNN By Henry Klapper, CNN Two Russian reporters appeared to post at least 30 articles on Monday that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s…
Continue Reading Two Russian journalists appear to defy Putin, slamming the war in Ukraine
By Henry Klapper, CNN Two Russian reporters appeared to post at least 30 articles on Monday that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s invasion…
Continue Reading Millennial Money: Save on family travel without stressing
By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Traveling with kids is expensive — and hard. You need to budget for extra airfare, a bigger rental car and…
Continue Reading Gas prices jump to fresh record highs
CNN By Matt Egan, CNN Business In another blow to the US economy, prices at the pump soared to fresh record highs. The national average price for…
Continue Reading Gas prices jump to fresh record highs
By Matt Egan, CNN Business In another blow to the US economy, prices at the pump soared to fresh record highs. The national average price for regular…
Continue Reading Donors fall well short of UN target for Syria aid
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — International donors have pledged $6.7 billion to help Syrians and neighboring countries hosting…
Continue Reading Dubai delivery workers go on second rare strike this month
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Food-delivery workers across Dubai are protesting meager pay and inadequate…
Continue Reading Spain fires intelligence chief amid phone hacking scandals
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s government has fired the director of the country’s top intelligence agency…
Continue Reading Egypt’s inflation rate continues to surge amid Ukraine war
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s annual inflation rate has continued to surge since the beginning of the year amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine that has…
Continue Reading Danish inflation hits 6.7%; highest since 1984
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government says the country’s inflation rate has increased to 6.7% in April in its highest level since…
Continue Reading Nintendo’s profit dips slightly as Switch console sales slow
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo’s profit for the fiscal year ended in March was little changed from the previous year,…
Continue Reading Sony’s profit surges on healthy film, game, music growth
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s fiscal fourth quarter surged 67% to 111.1 billion yen, or about $850 million, compared to…
Continue Reading UK govt sets out big plans, but little cost of living relief
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government has set out its agenda for the next year, with sweeping promises…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka orders troops to shoot those involved in violence
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s defense ministry has ordered security forces…
Continue Reading Shanghai re-tightens on COVID, frustrating trapped residents
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The city of Shanghai is doubling down on pandemic restrictions after a brief period of loosening…
Continue Reading Crucial NATO decisions expected in Finland, Sweden this week
By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Key decision-makers in non-aligned Finland and Sweden are set to announce their positions on NATO…
Continue Reading Xi promotes Communist Party youth wing ahead of key congress
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is promoting the role of the ruling Communist Party’s youth wing ahead of a key party congress…
Continue Reading Asian stocks mixed, China gains ahead of US price data
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mixed in Asia with Chinese benchmarks pressing higher after a rally in technology companies helped…
Continue Reading Watery graves recall early Las Vegas’ organized crime days
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Stories about long-departed Las Vegas organized crime figures are surfacing after a second set of…
Continue Reading 2 make deal, leaving just Kim Dotcom facing US extradition
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two men charged by U.S. prosecutors with racketeering and other crimes for their…
Continue Reading Warhol’s ‘Marilyn’ auction nabs $195M; most for US artist
NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” has sold for a cool $195 million. That makes the iconic portrait of actress Marilyn…
Continue Reading Cleanup underway after trees topple into Alaska road, bay
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Efforts are underway to clear a road where dozens of fully grown evergreen trees as well…
Continue Reading Laos reopens to visitors after 2-year closure to fight virus
BANGKOK (AP) — The landlocked Southeast Asian nation of Laos has reopened to tourists and other visitors more than two years after it imposed tight…
Continue Reading Elon Musk says he is ‘exactly aligned’ with Europe’s sweeping new rules for social media platforms
By Brian Fung, CNN Elon Musk appeared to endorse a key European law regulating social media on Monday when he appeared in a video with Thierry…
Continue Reading Lam says Hong Kong now has China patriots firmly in charge
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says Chinese patriots are now firmly in charge of the city following the election of its new leader,…
Continue Reading Bodies surfacing in Lake Mead recall mob’s time in Las Vegas
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lake Mead is receding and Sin City is awash with mob lore after a second set of human remains…
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