China tells Tencent and Netease to focus less on profit as gaming crackdown expands
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Chinese regulators have summoned companies to demand they play down profits and further clamp down on how minors can…
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Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer
By FRANK JORDANS, SETH BORENSTEIN and DANIEL COLE Associated Press SAINT-PAUL-LES-DURANCE, France (AP) — Teams working on two continents have…
Continue Reading Subdued 9/11 remembrances reflect Boston’s invisible scars
By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Both of the hijacked jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center towers flew out of…
Continue Reading Asian shares rebound; Wall St headed for weekly decline
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are higher in Asia as investors stepped up buying despite another decline on Wall Street that kept the…
Continue Reading Sports betting starts in Arizona in time for NFL season
By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s first sports betting operations are now open in time for the…
Continue Reading Crushed by pandemic, conventions mount a cautious return
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer In pre-COVID times, business events like conferences and trade shows routinely attracted more than 1 billion…
Continue Reading Taiwan’s president commissions domestic-made naval warship
JOHNSON LAI Associated Press SU’AO, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has overseen the commissioning of a new domestically made navy warship…
Continue Reading Japan extends virus emergency until end of September
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has extended a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of…
Continue Reading Defense lawyers say 1st Amendment protected ads on Backpage
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers defending the founders of Backpage.com against allegations they knowingly ran ads for…
Continue Reading United lays out employee rules as vaccine requirement looms
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines says more than half its workers who weren’t vaccinated last month have gotten the shots…
Continue Reading Hot, dry air, possible lightning raise California fire worry
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — California’s interior is hot and dry and the forecast calls for a risk of fire-starting dry lightning as…
Continue Reading NY county worker charged in digital currency mining scheme
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a Suffolk County employee secretly installed dozens of machines in his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme…
Continue Reading Glitches still plague bitcoin rollout in El Salvador
By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadorans trying to pay for a cup of coffee or receive money sent from…
Continue Reading College football’s return boosts television ratings
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Television viewers are ready for some football. Three college games from the opening weekend of the…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday
The Associated Press Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Wednesday following a Federal Reserve report that shows U.S. economic activity slowed…
Continue Reading 2 years after Georgia shipwreck, heavy lifting nearly done
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Two years after a cargo ship overturned along the Georgia seacoast, the heavy lifting to remove…
Continue Reading Sherwin-Williams, PulteGroup fall; Perrigo, Kadmon rise
NEW YORK (AP) — Sherwin-Williams, PulteGroup fall; Perrigo, Kadmon…
Continue Reading UK lawmakers back tax hike to pay for health, long-term care
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a vote in Parliament for a big tax hike designed to pay for short-term health…
Continue Reading Investing in art? This company sells shares of high-value paintings
Scott Lynn, Founder of Masterworks, explains how his company creates a market for selling and trading shares of million-dollar…
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 Shrine to replace church destroyed on 9/11 nears completion
By PETER SMITH Associated Press A ceremonial lighting on Sept. 10 will be a milestone in the reconstruction of the only house of worship to be…
Continue Reading Fed survey finds growth ‘downshifted’ in summer due to COVID
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economic activity “downshifted slightly to a moderate pace” in July and August…
Continue Reading 9/11 Day co-founders plan CNN special to generate good deeds
BY GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer David Paine and Jay Winuk — who successfully lobbied the federal government to officially rename the day…
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HEALTH MINUTE: COVID BOOSTER WATCH & WHAT TO KNOW
It’s another grim milestone: more than 40-million Covid-19 cases. Four million of those from the last month alone. Cases are more than 300 times…
Continue Reading Facebook slams UK antitrust watchdog over call to sell Giphy
LONDON (AP) — Facebook has criticized U.K. competition watchdog’s provisional decision that it should sell off Giphy because it’s acquisition…
Continue Reading HOLLYWOOD MINUTE: JAKE GYLLENHAAL’S NEW THRILLER
First look at “The Guilty,” Cardi B gives birth and LEGO Star Wars gets…
Continue Reading Idaho patients in hospital halls amid COVID rationed care
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s move to crisis standards of care this week is allowing some hospitals to ration…
Continue Reading Volkswagen unveils ID. Life at auto show
Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Life – a tiny, electric concept SUV – at an auto show in Munich. VW plans to put something like it into production around…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Holmes drawn as villain, underdog as trial begins
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The highly anticipated fraud trial of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes…
Continue Reading Researchers complete first-ever detailed map of global coral
By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world’s coral reefs by using more…
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