India seizes $725 million China’s Xiaomi over remittances
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities have seized $725 million from Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi, accusing it of breaking the country’s…
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Elon Musk wants end-to-end encryption for Twitter DMs. It may not be that simple
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Just two days after he announced he would buy Twitter, Elon Musk sent out a deluge of tweets about his plans for the…
Continue Reading Warren Buffett tells shareholders about spending $51 billion
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett gave Berkshire Hathaway investors a few details of how he spent more than $50…
Continue Reading Biden order to boost mining may not have quick payoff
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is turning to a Cold War-era law to boost production of lithium and other…
Continue Reading Why car shopping is so bizarre in the United States
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The way we buy cars in America is just weird. Just think about it for a moment. When you want to buy a…
Continue Reading Autopsy backlog plagues Mississippi, with worst delays in US
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An Associated Press analysis has found that Mississippi has long…
Continue Reading Back with the banned: Do Twitter’s exiles return under Musk?
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press QAnon loyalists, neo-Nazis and a former American president: The list of people banned from Twitter is long, but…
Continue Reading China manufacturing weakens further as lockdowns continue
BEIJING (AP) — China’s manufacturing activity fell to a six-month low in April as lockdowns continued in Shanghai and other manufacturing hubs in…
Continue Reading Ikea’s restaurants were failing. Then it turned to Swedish meatballs
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Ikea is known for sprawling showrooms, cheap flat-pack furniture and, of course, Swedish meatballs. The retail…
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How AI predicts what you’ll buy
Wicked Reports curated a list of five major ways artificial intelligence predicts what you’ll buy by mining extensive consumer data like location,…
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50 space terms for understanding the universe
In honor of World Space Week, Stacker has compiled a list of key astronomy and astrophysics terms that are out of this…
Continue Reading Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YESICA FISCH Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces are fighting village by village to hold back a…
Continue Reading Dems hone populist appeal with proposed stock trading ban
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Proposals to ban stock trading by lawmakers are gaining ground in Congress and on the campaign…
Continue Reading Thousands likely at Buffett’s meeting but not all are happy
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people are expected to pack an Omaha arena Saturday for Warren Buffett’s…
Continue Reading A longer life for Diablo Canyon? Newsom touts nuke extension
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is raising the possibility that the state’s last nuclear…
Continue Reading Oklahoma parks director resigns, restaurant operator sued
By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The embattled director of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department has resigned and the…
Continue Reading Russia makes last-minute bond payment to avoid default
By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Russia has staved off a default on its debt by making a last-minute payment…
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First Borderland Beerfest is set to take place in Downtown El Paso Saturday
EL PASO, Texas – The local El Paso brewery- Deadbeach Brewery- is throwing a large, free event for the public this weekend. It will be the first-ever…
Continue Reading Electric car startups want to avoid same fate as Britain’s 1890s bike bubble
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Amazon and Ford reported this week they lost a combined $12.3 billion in the last three months due to their…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday
The Associated Press More steep losses for technology stocks pushed major indexes lower on Friday, leaving them with steep losses for April. The…
Continue Reading Amazon, AbbVie fall, Mohawk Industries, Honeywell rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Amazon, AbbVie fall, Mohawk Industries, Honeywell…
Continue Reading Nasdaq wraps its worst month in nearly 14 years as recession fears grow stronger
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US stocks plunged on Friday, with the Nasdaq marking its worst month since October 2008 and the S&P notching…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue Reading Prosecutor: LA funeral home director left remains to rot
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a Los Angeles funeral home owner illegally left the remains of 11 people,…
Continue Reading Inflation spurs record decline in workers’ wages and benefits
By Tami Luhby, CNN Skyrocketing inflation is robbing Americans of their raises. Total compensation costs for civilian workers declined 3.7% over the…
Continue Reading Musk sells $8.5B in Tesla stock as he readies to buy Twitter
Associated Press In the three days after he announced he had a deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk has sold $8.5 billion worth of Tesla to help fund the…
Continue Reading Jury awards nearly $9M to families in fertility fraud case
DENVER (AP) — A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate…
Continue Reading Pilot in botched Arizona Red Bull plane stunt apologizes
ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — The pilot in charge during a forbidden Red Bull plane-swapping stunt is taking full responsibility for the ensuing crash over…
Continue Reading Moderna to open vaccine factory in Canada, its first abroad
MONTREAL (AP) — American pharmaceutical company Moderna says it will build a vaccine factory in Montreal, its first outside of the United States.…
Continue Reading An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns
By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers’ TV…
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