Earth gets hotter, deadlier during decades of climate talks
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has…
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Here to stay or gone in 30 years? Inside the fight over the future of the oil industry
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The people who made their fortunes in the oil capital of Europe need a new plan. For decades, Aberdeen, a port city…
Continue Reading LA, Long Beach ports will issue fines for backlogged cargo
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex will begin fining shipping companies if they let cargo containers stack up as the…
Continue Reading Texas and 10-state coalition file lawsuits challenging Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors
By Amy Simonson, Rebekah Riess and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Texas on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its Covid-19 vaccine…
Continue Reading Chinese firm to pay $91M over dangerous dehumidifiers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese company that sold millions of faulty dehumidifiers to U.S. customers will pay $91 million for failing to tell…
Continue Reading Giant Eagle settles pharmacy lawsuits with Ohio counties
By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the four retail pharmacy companies on trial for their alleged roles in fostering an…
Continue Reading Aluminum shortage disrupts Montana license plate production
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana has become the latest state to temporarily stop making license plates because of a…
Continue Reading US Democratic governors to participate in U.N. climate talks
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. governors are taking a seat at the table as international leaders gather in…
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McDonald’s McRib returns Monday
McDonald’s McRib is back. The limited-time offering is returning to menus nationwide on Monday, Nov. 1. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the…
Continue Reading Oregon’s biggest city has ‘long way to go’ repairing its rep
By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tourism officials from Oregon’s largest city are calling Portland’s…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday
The Associated Press Stocks are ending higher Friday as Wall Street closed out a milestone-setting week. Every major index closed higher. Health…
Continue Reading Apple, Amazon fall; US Steel, Newell rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Apple, Amazon fall; US Steel, Newell…
Continue Reading Warren Buffett’s billionaire partner bankrolls windowless dorm. An architect quit
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Billionaire Charlie Munger is bankrolling the design of a massive dormitory at the University of California, Santa…
Continue Reading FDA paves way for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations in young kids
By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5…
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 The stock market was more treat than trick in October
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business October may be notorious for big market crashes. But this month was more of a Rocktober than Shocktober for…
Continue Reading The stock market was more treat than trick in October
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business October may be notorious for big market crashes. But this month was more of a Rocktober than…
Continue Reading UK’s Johnson renews threat to EU over N Ireland trade
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has renewed Britain’s threat to break from part of the Brexit divorce…
Continue Reading US to gauge climate damage from federal oil and gas sales
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from…
Continue Reading Supply chain nightmares are doing what regulators and rivals can’t: Slow Amazon down
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Amazon’s rise has been relentless for more than a decade, with regulators and rivals alike failing to slow…
Continue Reading Feds say Michael Avenatti should head to prison in Nike case
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have asked a judge to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin…
Continue Reading US hits Iran with sanctions ahead of key nuke talks meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has hit Iran with a fresh set of sanctions as President Joe Biden prepares for a key weekend meeting with…
Continue Reading Minnesota man charged in hacking MLB and for trying to extort the league
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business A Minnesota man has been charged with hacking into computer systems used by Major League Baseball and trying to extort…
Continue Reading Toyota announces $461 million investment in Kentucky plant
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Toyota says it is investing $461 million into its first U.S. plant to add new technology, increase production flexibility…
Continue Reading Ruling: Can’t fire unvaccinated while mandate is challenged
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state appeals court says Louisiana’s largest health system can’t fire or…
Continue Reading UK wants to be the first major economy to force companies to reveal climate risks
Walé Azeez, CNN Business The United Kingdom is pushing ahead with legislation that will force more than 1,300 of its largest companies to disclose…
Continue Reading California oil spill: Surfing, swimming OK but fishing out
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Four weeks after an oil spill off Southern California’s coast, surfers have been…
Continue Reading High oil prices are unlikely to last, Chevron CFO tells CNN
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Oil prices are unlikely to stay elevated for long, Chevron’s chief financial officer told CNN. “This feels…
Continue Reading Partisanship, employee dissent and ‘dead bodies’: Inside Facebook’s struggle to combat misinformation and hate speech in India
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business In early 2019, a team of Facebook’s researchers spent two weeks interviewing 30 users across two Indian cities,…
Continue Reading US wages jump by the most in records dating back 20 years
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and salaries jumped in the three months ending in September by the most on…
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