Mercedes F1 team and firm end deal opposed by fire survivors
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Building materials maker Kingspan says it has agreed with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One…
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City honors nightclub where Ray Charles sang during Jim Crow
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina city is planning to put up a historical marker to commemorate a nightclub that hosted Black musicians and…
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Why Dollar Tree’s price hike to $1.25 could be ‘one of the worst decisions in retail history’
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business In 1986, three retail veterans opened a chain of stores in the southeast named Only $1.00. They were building…
Continue Reading Trying to make sense of the Omicron market? Look at bank stocks
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business If you want to determine where investors think the economy is heading, it makes sense to turn to shares of banks.…
Continue Reading Pfizer says COVID booster offers protection against omicron
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer says a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine appears to offer important protection against the new…
Continue Reading Edmunds: 5 must-have features on new cars
MILES BRANMAN Edmunds (AP) — One of the perks of buying a new vehicle is that it offers features that promise a safer and more convenient driving…
Continue Reading WHO: Weekly COVID cases dip in Europe after weeks of gains
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s European region has recorded a slight drop in both COVID-19 cases and deaths last week after facing…
Continue Reading Parents of the social media generation are not OK
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Video by John General, Janelle Gonzalez & Sofia Barrett, CNN Business Last September, just a few weeks…
Continue Reading Instagram offers ‘drug pipeline’ to kids, tech advocacy group claims
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Instagram says it prohibits drug sales, but accounts advertising the sale…
Continue Reading Thai court affirms tycoon’s prison sentence for poaching
By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Supreme Court has affirmed a three-year, two-month prison sentence for a top…
Continue Reading Avoid going overboard and over budget on kids’ holiday gifts
By AMANDA BARROSO of NerdWallet It’s easy to go overboard on gifts for your kids for the holidays, but the result could be a drained bank account…
Continue Reading Gas prices will tumble below $3 a gallon soon, government forecasts
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Prices at the pump have finally started to creep lower, and that trend should significantly accelerate in the coming…
Continue Reading Scholz replaces Merkel as German chancellor, opening new era
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz has become Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening a new era for the…
Continue Reading End of an era: Germany’s Merkel bows out after 16 years
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel is credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence and working to hold a…
Continue Reading Scholz’s team: Key players in Germany’s new government
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz has taken over as Germany’s new chancellor at the head of a three-party coalition…
Continue Reading Tense nuclear talks with Iran to resume Thursday in Vienna
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The European diplomat chairing nuclear talks between Iran and world powers says negotiations in…
Continue Reading UK’s Johnson apologizes, orders probe of staff lockdown fest
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized and ordered an inquiry after a leaked video…
Continue Reading Facebook broadens ban on military-linked Myanmar companies
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced a new ban on postings linked to Myanmar’s military…
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10 billion-dollar disasters of 2021
Using data collected by NOAA, Stacker listed the top-ten most expensive natural disasters across the U.S. in 2021, totaling over 104.8 billion…
Continue Reading India’s top military chief among 13 killed in air force helicopter crash
By Swati Gupta, Vedika Sud, Laura Smith-Spark and Rhea Mogul, CNN India’s top military official was killed Wednesday when an Indian Air Force…
Continue Reading Sole survivor of India helicopter crash fights for his life as country mourns victims
CNN By Esha Mitra, Vedika Sud and Rhea Mogul, CNN The only survivor of a helicopter crash that killed 13 people including India’s top military…
Continue Reading Germany-wide police raids target alleged worker trafficking
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police and customs officers have conducted dozens of raids and arrested at least nine…
Continue Reading Here’s what people Googled in 2021
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business If 2020 was defined by a spike in people frantically Googling for everything related to the coronavirus, this year saw…
Continue Reading Asian markets rise as investors wait for U.S. inflation
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as investors wait for U.S. inflation data…
Continue Reading ‘Pharma Bro’ firm reaches $40M settlement in gouging case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A company once owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million to settle allegations that it jacked…
Continue Reading Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US
By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, disrupting access to many…
Continue Reading Japan economy contracts 3.6% in 3Q as virus hits spending
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has downgraded its growth estimate for the last quarter, saying weaker consumer spending and trade resulted in a 3.6%…
Continue Reading Japan economy contracts 3.6% in 3Q on weaker spending, trade
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has downgraded its growth estimate for the last quarter, saying weaker consumer spending and trade resulted in a 3.6%…
Continue Reading Zuckerberg, Chan to invest up to $3.4B for science advances
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A spokesperson for the company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife,…
Continue Reading NTSB: Poor planning led to deadly Texas pipeline blast
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Federal investigators say a dredge operator’s inadequate communication, planning, and risk management likely led to…
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