Delta: Flight to Shanghai turned back because of COVID rules
BEIJING (AP) — Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent…
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Chinese tech stocks are climbing on the last day of the year. But 2021 has been a bloodbath
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Diksha Madhok and Jill Disis, CNN Business Chinese tech stocks got a big boost in Hong Kong on the last day of the year, but…
Continue Reading China plans to tighten rules on overseas IPOs
By Jill Disis, CNN Business China is planning to tighten restrictions for Chinese companies that want to list overseas. And while Beijing won’t…
Continue Reading Asian shares mixed as omicron worries crimp market optimism
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed, as optimism set off by a rally on Wall Street was dampened by…
Continue Reading Holmes jury ends fourth inconclusive day of deliberations
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes…
Continue Reading This Week: Home prices, wholesale stockpiles, jobless claims
The Associated Press S&P issues its latest monthly CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index Tuesday. The Commerce Department reports its November…
Continue Reading Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The metrics are ugly for many television, digital and print news organizations: after…
Continue Reading Asian stocks mixed in quiet end of year trading
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares are mixed at the outset of the last trading week of the year as countries…
Continue Reading The pandemic pushed nearly 100 million people in poverty. They’re struggling to escape
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Dipali Roy couldn’t afford to eat. She and her husband, Pradip Roy, were garment workers in Bangladesh when the…
Continue Reading The pandemic pushed nearly 100 million people in poverty. They’re struggling to escape
CNN By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Dipali Roy couldn’t afford to eat. She and her husband, Pradip Roy, were garment workers in Bangladesh when…
Continue Reading Nancy Keating, matriarch of influential family, dies at 94
CINCINNATI (AP) — Nancy Keating, matriarch of a large family with deep and philanthropic ties to the Cincinnati area, has died at age 94. Her son…
Continue Reading ‘Spider-Man’ surpasses $1B globally in second weekend
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Even with some mighty competition from new Matrix and Sing movies and rising concerns over the omicron variant,…
Continue Reading Thousands of flights canceled on Christmas weekend
CNN, KARE, WJLA, KUSA By Pete Muntean, CNN Business Major US airlines canceled hundreds more flights Sunday, the third day in a row of mass…
Continue Reading COVID-19 variant disrupts holiday travel but not shopping
By BRYAN GALLION and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The latest COVID-19 variant is upending holiday plans for tens of thousands…
Continue Reading Despite supply issues and omicron, holiday sales rise 8.5%
By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with…
Continue Reading ‘No culture, no future’: Belgian artists decry virus rules
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian artists and event organizers have joined together to protest the government’s decision to close down most concerts,…
Continue Reading Federal program offers cash to cover COVID-19 funeral costs
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Families who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 can apply for reimbursement from the federal…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: New easy-to-use COVID-19 pills come with a catch
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Newly infected COVID-19 patients have two new treatment options that can be taken at home. But that convenience comes…
Continue Reading The next Tesla is proving hard to find
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Finding the next Tesla among electric vehicle stocks is proving to be difficult. A number of upstart electric vehicle…
Continue Reading 2021: The revolutionary year in pickup trucks
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The great American pickup truck has been basically one thing for quite awhile now: a big — and always…
Continue Reading Flight cancellations snarl holiday plans for thousands
By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines canceled hundreds more flights Saturday because of staffing issues tied to COVID-19,…
Continue Reading Albert Bourla of Pfizer is the CNN Business CEO of the Year
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over. But life in many ways has returned to something resembling normal for…
Continue Reading Judge orders New York Times to return Project Veritas memos
By Reuters A New York state judge on Friday ordered the New York Times to return internal documents to the conservative activist group Project…
Continue Reading Thousands line up for ‘jingle jabs’ on Christmas in England
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people across England are spending a few minutes of Christmas Day to line up under…
Continue Reading Webb telescope successfully unfurls its tennis court-size sunshield in space
The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s premier space observatory of the next decade, successfully launched from French Guiana. Webb will peer into…
Continue Reading Three key numbers that explain America’s labor shortage
By Anneken Tappe and Allison Morrow, CNN Business Twenty-one months into the pandemic, America is no longer struggling with an astronomically high…
Continue Reading Omicron is messing with the economic recovery
CNN By Matt Egan, CNN Business Thousands of flights canceled. Back-to-the-office plans shelved. College football bowl games and Broadway shows called…
Continue Reading Business owners leave big tip for Albuquerque servers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two servers at an Albuquerque restaurant got a big surprise when a group of business owners left a $5,555 tip. It was the…
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Airlines cancel hundreds of Christmas Eve & Christmas Day flights due to Omicron
NEW YORK, NY — As pre-pandemic level crowds hit the airports for the holidays, some major U.S. airlines were forced to proactively cancel more…
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New cleaning contract ok’d for El Paso airport as it struggles with staff shortages
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso City Council approved a new contract with a large increase for cleaning services at the airport to help with staff…
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