Good news for Joe Biden: America is getting back to work
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s job market recovery hit a roadblock in the late summer and early fall. In recent months, the tally of…
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Japan labor leader vows to fight for stable, better work
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s largest labor federation says stable work must be…
Continue Reading Norway fund divests from companies tied to weapon production
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s largest pension fund says it has divested from 14 companies involved in…
Continue Reading Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talks
By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press SOULAINES-DHUYS, France (AP) — Nuclear power is a central sticking point as negotiators plot out the world’s…
Continue Reading Bank of England holds rates steady, confounding expectations
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has confounded market expectations and held interest rates steady. It said Thursday…
Continue Reading Nintendo’s profit drops from last year’s pandemic boom
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo says its profit dropped 19% in the first half of its fiscal…
Continue Reading Germany reports record number of new coronavirus cases
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control agency has reported the highest number of new infections with the…
Continue Reading Bees, sheep, crops: Solar developers tout multiple benefits
By JOHN FLESHER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MONTICELLO, Minnesota (AP) — Solar is a renewable energy source that can help wean the world off…
Continue Reading Asian shares mostly lower after fresh Wall St records
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares are mostly lower in Asia, with Chinese markets weighed down by concerns over property…
Continue Reading Toyota lifts forecast despite pandemic’s supply chain damage
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota is reporting a 33% jump in second fiscal quarter profit as it…
Continue Reading A public suicide in Iran spotlights anguish over economy
By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The son of an Iranian war hero burned himself to death last month outside a building where…
Continue Reading Fed pulls back economic aid in face of rising uncertainties
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find the current economy a bit confusing, don’t worry: So does the nation’s…
Continue Reading The AP Interview: Justice Dept. conducting cyber crackdown
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities are expecting arrests and criminal charges related to ransomware in the coming…
Continue Reading US government works to ‘cocoon’ old nuclear reactors
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually…
Continue Reading New Mazda cars will stop if driver suffers health problem
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Cars already know how to park themselves, warn drowsy drivers, steer back into the right lanes and…
Continue Reading Officials tell AP that Iran seized Vietnamese oil tanker
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month…
Continue Reading Frontier Airlines now offers non-stop flights to Orlando from El Paso
EL PASO, Texas — Frontier Airlines just made it quicker for El Pasoans to go to Disney World or Universal Orlando as it’s now offering non-stop…
Continue Reading US ambassador cites “serious concerns” on Mexico energy bill
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico says his country has “serious concerns” about the Mexican government’s attempts to limit…
Continue Reading Amazon hiring 500 workers for El Paso warehouse center
EL PASO, Texas — Amazon announced Wednesday that it would begin hiring immediately for over 500 full-time jobs needed for the anticipated opening…
Continue Reading Supply chain delays disrupt California agriculture exports
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California farmers say they are having trouble exporting their crops because of delays in…
Continue Reading Government suspends training at sea program after college student says she and others were raped
By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN The federal government’s academy for merchant mariners is halting a key training program that sends…
Continue Reading Judge in Mexico orders ex-head of state oil company jailed
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company has finally been ordered to jail, a year after he was extradited from…
Continue Reading Ford is first major US automaker to mandate vaccines
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Ford will mandate vaccines for most of its 32,000 US salaried employees, a spokesperson for the company…
Continue Reading Ford is first major US automaker to mandate vaccines
By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Ford will mandate vaccines for most of its 32,000 US salaried employees, a spokesperson for the company said Wednesday.…
Continue Reading Facebook removes Ethiopian PM’s post for inciting violence
By CARA ANNA and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Facebook says it has removed a post by Ethiopia’s prime minister that urged…
Continue Reading Deere warns striking workers not to expect better offer
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Deere executives say the company won’t return to the bargaining table with striking workers because it…
Continue Reading Labor secretary: Pandemic, worker vexation feed port issues
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Labor Secretary Marty Walsh says slowdowns and bottlenecks at the nation’s shipping…
Continue Reading Labor leader apologizes for likening Holocaust to mandates
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas labor leader is apologizing for remarks he made during a legislative hearing comparing…
Continue Reading CVS Health, T-Mobile rise; Zillow, Activision fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: CVS Health, T-Mobile rise; Zillow, Activision…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday
The Associated Press Stocks climbed to more record highs Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it will begin dialing back the extraordinary aid…
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