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…
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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…
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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…
Continue Reading Recession risks are ‘uncomfortably high and moving higher,’ Mark Zandi says
By Matt Egan, CNN Business The war in Ukraine. Red-hot inflation. And rapid interest rate hikes. The economic recovery that began two years ago faces…
Continue Reading Spain’s truckers get gas price cut but some keep striking
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government and the country’s main trucking federations have reached an agreement on financial help for an industry hurt…
Continue Reading German business confidence drops sharply on war worries
BERLIN (AP) — A survey shows that German business confidence has dropped sharply as company managers’ outlook for the coming months darkens…
Continue Reading Activists stage global climate protest, slam Ukraine war
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists have staged a 10th series of worldwide protests to demand that leaders take…
Continue Reading UK transport chief vows to reverse illegal ferry firings
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s transport secretary has vowed to force a ferry operator to reverse the illegal firing of…
Continue Reading Ukraine war drives US, EU deal to undercut Russian energy
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is offering a major expansion of natural gas shipments to Europe amid the…
Continue Reading US stocks end mostly higher after another up-and-down day
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks wound up mostly higher on Wall Street Friday after another day of bouncing around as…
Continue Reading As NY preps pot market, sales grow on Native American land
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ST. REGIS MOHAWK RESERVATION, N.Y. (AP) — As New York inches toward launching a retail marijuana market, sales are…
Continue Reading 5 days after crash, 2nd black box eludes China searchers
By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — Five days after the crash of a passenger jet in mountainous southern China, the…
Continue Reading These fossil fuel companies sent more than $15B in taxes to Russia since it annexed Crimea, NGOs say
By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN Nine European and US fossil fuel companies have paid a collective $15.8 billion to Russia in…
Continue Reading AP-NORC poll: Low marks for Biden on economy as prices rise
By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say they don’t blame President Joe Biden for high…
Continue Reading China Eastern Airlines grounds 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft after crash
By Laura He, CNN Business China Eastern Airlines is grounding dozens of aircraft after a deadly crash earlier this week. The airline and its…
Continue Reading California’s Hearst Castle to reopen after pandemic, damage
SAN SIMEON, Calif. (AP) — California’s famous Hearst Castle will reopen to the public in May after a two-year closure due to the pandemic and…
Continue Reading EU officials agree on rules to rein in Big Tech dominance
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials agreed Thursday on a landmark provisional agreement aimed at clamping down on the biggest online…
Continue Reading Searchers in China find wing, engine parts after plane crash
By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — People in rain gear and rubber boots are searching muddy, forested hills in southern China for…
Continue Reading 5 charged in Georgia-to-California black market gun scheme
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say five people illegally trafficked more than 500 guns from Georgia to California, where they would…
Continue Reading Ukrainian crew member who tried to sink a yacht linked to an oligarch: ‘It was my first step for the war with Russia’
CNN By Bob Ortega, Al Goodman, Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Jeff Winter, CNN For 10 years, Taras Ostapchuk worked at what many might consider a dream…
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