Spring break crackdown puts focus on future of South Beach
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach officials have spent recent years trying to control the raucous crowds,…
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Affordable housing, long overlooked, getting federal boost
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — States and localities are increasingly tapping federal funds to help finance efforts to build more…
Continue Reading California unemployment rate falls to 5.4% in February
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate has fallen to 5.4% after employers added a surprising…
Continue Reading Ga. gov applauds completion of Savannah harbor expansion
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is celebrating what he calls a “once in a generation milestone” _…
Continue Reading Amid gas woes, NYC ride-hail drivers seek fuel surcharges
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With fuel prices approaching $5 a gallon at some New York City gas stations, drivers for…
Continue Reading Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto
By SAM METZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP lawmakers in Utah have pushed through a ban on transgender youth…
Continue Reading Crews remove snow from damaged Alaska pipeline oil tanks
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Workers at the end point of the trans-Alaska pipeline are using saws to cut up large chunks of snow on top of oil storage…
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Inflation is so hot the Fed may have to hike interest rates like it’s 1994
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Inflation is so hot that Wall Street banks are falling over each other to predict the dramatic moves the Federal Reserve…
Continue Reading Instacart slashes its valuation to $24 billion
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Instacart’s valuation doubled twice to $39 billion in the first year of the public health crisis,…
Continue Reading US ready to auction wind energy rights off Carolinas coast
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The federal government plans to auction off the rights to produce power from wind energy in two areas offshore of North…
Continue Reading Rudy Giuliani associate pleads guilty in fraud scheme
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge alleging that he…
Continue Reading EU officials agree on sweeping new rules targeting Big Tech
By Brian Fung, CNN European officials have reached agreement on a sweeping set of competition rules for Big Tech that could mark a global turning…
Continue Reading White House and EU reach agreement on trans-Atlantic data sharing
By Brian Fung, CNN The White House has hammered out a new agreement with the EU that could again allow businesses to transfer data and personal…
Continue Reading White House and EU reach agreement on trans-Atlantic data sharing
CNN By Brian Fung, CNN The White House has hammered out a new agreement with the EU that could again allow businesses to transfer data and personal…
Continue Reading US consumer sentiment fell again amid rising rates, war and inflation
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Consumer sentiment slumped again in March, hitting its lowest level since August 2011, the University of Michigan…
Continue Reading Chip shortage forces GM to pause production at Indiana plant
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is shutting down its pickup truck factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for two weeks next month because the company has…
Continue Reading US, EU sign data transfer deal to ease privacy concerns
By KELVIN CHAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong…
Continue Reading Mining group: ‘Attack’ on Alabama pipeline prompts reward
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) — A late-night explosion at a natural gas pipeline in rural west Alabama is under investigation by federal agents. And a…
Continue Reading West African leaders make demands after coups in the region
By FRANCIS KOKUTSE and BABA AHMED Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — West African leaders on Friday said they would uphold the regional sanctions…
Continue Reading Greece: Independence Day parade held with spectators allowed
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people have lined the streets in central Athens as fighter jets flew overhead and tanks rolled down the street…
Continue Reading Europe can’t live without Russian gas. Can this tiny Middle East country help?
By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN “It’s always nice to be wanted,” Qatar’s energy minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi said in jest during an…
Continue Reading Why ‘free college’ programs don’t always deliver on promise
By DREW LINDSAY of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Pete Kadens, who made the bulk of his fortune as CEO of a billion-dollar…
Continue Reading Two Amazon warehouses are vying to make history with company’s first union, but they’re very different
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After going 27 years without a US union, Amazon now faces a test from elections at not one but two of its…
Continue Reading Two Amazon warehouses are vying to make history with company’s first union, but they’re very different
CNN By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After going 27 years without a US union, Amazon now faces a test from elections at not one but two of…
Continue Reading Deleted Joker scene hints at big plans for ‘The Batman’ franchise
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business DC is taking a page from Marvel’s playbook comic book. Warner Bros. on Thursday released a deleted scene from…
Continue Reading Can America fix Europe’s gas problem?
By Charles Riley, CNN Business North Atlantic shipping lanes are going to be very busy this year as an armada of US natural gas shipments heads to…
Continue Reading Togo executive to lead UN labor agency, 1st African in post
GENEVA (AP) — The governing body of the U.N.’s labor agency has picked a Togo executive to be the agency’s new leader and the first…
Continue Reading Small businesses face tax headaches on top of pandemic woes
By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have…
Continue Reading EU agrees on new digital rules to rein in Big Tech dominance
By KELVIN CHAN and SAM PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union set the stage for a stepped-up crackdown on tech companies…
Continue Reading Deepfakes are now trying to change the course of war
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business In the third week of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video, dressed in a dark green…
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