Dubai Air Show opens to industry on the mend amid COVID-19
By AYA BATRAWY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s biennial Air Show has opened to a world still reeling…
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Smog chokes Indian capital as air pollution levels soar
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Air pollution in the Indian capital has hit dangerous levels again this winter, as thick, gray…
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‘SNL’ takes kids to Ted Cruz Street with Big Bird
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Saturday Night Live” opened this weekend’s show with Sen. Ted Cruz taking kids to “Ted Cruz…
Continue Reading Myanmar political standoff leaves economy in tatters
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The military takeover in Myanmar has set its economy back years, if not decades, as political unrest and…
Continue Reading Airlines offer staff holiday incentives after operational meltdowns
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Southwest Airlines is the latest carrier to offer new incentives to its employees during the holidays, as airlines…
Continue Reading Good COP, bad COP? Takeaways from the new UN climate deal
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — After two years of preparation and 13 days of tough talks, did negotiators at the U.N.…
Continue Reading Kaiser Permanente, unions reach labor deal to avert strike
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An alliance of unions representing 50,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in California, Oregon and six other states called off a…
Continue Reading Strike averted at West Coast hospitals
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Unions and management at Kaiser Permanente have reached a tentative agreement that avoids a strike that was to start…
Continue Reading Striking Deere & Co. workers prepare to vote on 3rd contract
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Deere & Co. and union officials have reached a third preliminary contract agreement that workers who began striking…
Continue Reading Elon Musk ends the week selling another $1.2 billion of Tesla shares
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Another day, another billion dollars. Or in Elon Musk’s case, $1.2 billion. A filing late Friday shows that Musk…
Continue Reading Carnival Cruises to resume Alabama operations March 5
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Nearly two years after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Carnival Cruise Lines is restarting operations in Mobile. Al.com…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Why quitting coal is so hard
By KARL RITTER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its…
Continue Reading Scores evacuated in fire at Indonesia’s largest oil refinery
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fire at a gasoline storage at the largest oil refinery on Indonesia’s Java island near Jakarta has prompted the…
Continue Reading Inflation, explained: Why prices keep going up and who’s to blame
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Confused about inflation? You’re not alone. Inflation is, paradoxically, both incredibly simple to understand…
Continue Reading Why you can’t find the biggest brands at T.J. Maxx right now
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Bummer for bargain hunters: It may be harder to snag designer clothes at T.J. Maxx, Burlington and Ross. These…
Continue Reading What we learned this week in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business The biggest news this week in the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes is that the government expects to…
Continue Reading Deciding whether to invest in Bitcoin? Here are the other big names in crypto
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Cryptocurrencies have hit new all-time highs this month as they become more appealing to mainstream investors.…
Continue Reading Biden bill would give local news outlets ‘shot in the arm’
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and TALI ARBEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a…
Continue Reading Lions, tigers and an unbearable year at Jack Hanna’s zoo
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s been a bear of a year for Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the…
Continue Reading UK risks trade war with EU over Brexit deal on Northern Ireland
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Northern Ireland is once again at the center of post-Brexit tensions between the United Kingdom and the European Union,…
Continue Reading Hong Kong authorities deny visa to Economist journalist
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have declined to renew a visa for a foreign journalist working for The Economist without any explanation.…
Continue Reading Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement
By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Almost 200 nations have accepted a compromise deal aimed at keeping…
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Gas bill settlement will cost El Pasoans an extra $5.22 a month for 3 years
by Danielle Prokop, El Paso MattersAUSTIN, Texas — Texans could see higher fees on their natural gas bills as early as next month, an effort to…
Continue Reading Appeals court extends block on Biden’s vaccine mandate for employers
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — A federal appeals court late Friday extended the block on a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for companies. The New Orleans-based…
Continue Reading Federal court declines to lift stay on vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…
Continue Reading Britney Spears got all to agree she needed to be freed
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For one day at least, everyone with power over Britney Spears was in agreement. She…
Continue Reading Blue Origin astronaut Glen de Vries dies in plane crash
By Kristin Fisher and Pete Muntean, CNN Business One of Blue Origin’s newest astronauts, 49-year-old Glen de Vries, survived a ride to space in…
Continue Reading Federal court declines to lift stay on vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…
Continue Reading Tesla driver’s complaint being looked into by US regulators
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into a complaint from a Tesla driver that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software…
Continue Reading Nursing homes can now lift most COVID restrictions on visits
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is telling nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing…
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