Pfizer announced, Saturday, that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the Omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall.
MUNICH — About 4,000 protesters gathered in Munich as the Group of Seven leading economic powers prepared, Saturday, to hold their annual gathering in the Bavarian Alps in Germany, which holds the G-7’s rotating presidency this year.
WASHINGTON — With the Supreme Court ending the constitutional protections for abortion, four Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by enabling the collection and sale of their personal data to…
Frontier Airlines, on Friday, added more cash and a larger breakup fee to its offer to buy Spirit Airlines, and the Spirit Board repeated its preference for Frontier over a rival bid by JetBlue Airways.
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A world apart, Lebanon and Sri Lanka share economic collapse
The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels.
Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks
WASHINGTON — US health regulators, on Thursday, ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.
WASHINGTON — An oil industry meeting with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to lower gas prices and boost domestic oil supplies was constructive, but did not produce a major breakthrough, administration and industry officials said, Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, called on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — an election-year move meant to ease financial pressures that was greeted with doubts by many lawmakers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought, Wednesday, to reassure the public that the Fed will raise interest rates high and fast enough to quell inflation, without tightening credit so much as to throttle the economy and cause a recession.
Walmart expands health services
Kellogg Co., the 116-year-old maker of Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, Pringles and Eggo, will split into three companies focused on cereals, snacks and plant-based foods.
Fed’s Powell facing rising criticism for inflation missteps
Two Black executives at Amazon are leaving the company, the e-commerce juggernaut confirmed, Tuesday, hours after CEO Andy Jassy named a new head for the company’s troubled retail business.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker energy minister, on Wednesday, extended the licensing deadline for oil and gas companies to explore in the country’s territorial waters until mid-December, to give more firms the chance to bid, state-run news agency reported.
Sales of previously occupied US homes slowed for the fourth consecutive month as climbing mortgage rates and record high prices discouraged house hunters.
COLOGNE, Germany — At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany, airport, Bernd Mueller watches the digits quickly climb on the pump: 22 euros ($23), 23 euros, 24 euros. The numbers showing how much gasoline he’s getting rise, too. But much more slowly. Painfully slowly.
Crypto investors’ hot streak ends as harsh ‘winter’ descends
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said, Sunday, that she expects the US economy to slow in the months ahead, but that a recession is not inevitable.
TOWSON, Md. — The historic vote by employees of a Maryland Apple store to unionize — a first for the technology giant — is a significant step in a lengthy process that labor experts say is heavily stacked against workers in favor of their employers.
The price of a foot of water pipe in Tucson, Ariz.: up 19%. The cost of a ton of asphalt in a small Massachusetts town: up 37%. The estimate to build a new airport terminal in Des Moines, Iowa: 69% higher, with a several year delay.
OMAHA, Neb. — An anonymous bidder has shelled out a record $19 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett at a steakhouse in New York City.
NEW YORK — The price of bitcoin fell below $20,000 on, Saturday for the first time, since late 2020, in a fresh sign that the selloff in cryptocurrencies is deepening.
Chuck and Terry Nowiski lived in their country-style farmhouse with a wrap-around porch for 36 years before it flooded. After hurricanes Matthew and Florence, they said “yes” to the state’s offer to buy their place and tear it down.
LONDON — Thousands of people marched through central London, on Saturday, in a protest over the soaring cost of living in Britain.
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — SpaceX, the rocket ship company run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has fired several employees involved in an open letter that blasted the colorful billionaire for his behavior, according to media reports.
Vince McMahon is stepping down as CEO and chairman of WWE during an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the longtime leader and public face of the organization.
NEW YORK — Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to party cups.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Equating the oil and gas industry to Big Tobacco, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, Friday, that “fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.” But President Joe Biden wasn’t quite itching for a fight.
Russia again cuts natural gas exports
WASHINGTON — The head of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers, Thursday, that a shuttered baby formula factory could be up and running as soon as next week, though he sidestepped questions about whether his agency should have intervened earlier to address problems at the plant tha…
Fed raises likelihood of a recession
LONDON (AP) — The European Union is beefing up its code of practice on disinformation by enlisting more tech companies beyond Google, Twitter and Facebook parent Meta and adding measures to prevent online purveyors of fake news from profiting.
NEW YORK — Americans trimmed their spending unexpectedly, in May, compared with a month before, underscoring how surging inflation on daily necessities like gas is causing them to be more cautious about buying discretionary items.
China’s factory activity rebounds as anti-virus curbs ease
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture.
The US failed to take basic steps at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic to prevent fraud in a federal aid program intended to help small businesses, depleting the funds and making people more vulnerable to identity theft, the chairman of a House panel examining the payouts said, Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices, clearing the way for his deposition, next month.
DETROIT — The government will soon release data on collisions involving vehicles with autonomous or partially automated driving systems that will likely single out Tesla for a disproportionately high number of such crashes.
Biggest rate hike in years expected as Fed tackles inflation
HONG KONG (AP) — A landmark floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine and seafood to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and millions of other diners was towed from the Hong Kong harborfront, Tuesday, after being closed by the pandemic.
Bear market hits Wall Street as stocks, bonds, crypto dive
WASHINGTON — US regulators have historically inspected baby formula plants at least once a year, but they did not inspect any of the three biggest manufacturers, in 2020, according to federal records reviewed by The Associated Press.
BERLIN (AP) — China has overtaken Germany as the biggest buyer of Russian energy exports since the start of the war in Ukraine, an independent research group said, Monday.
VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only California plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state.
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Bridging the digital divide has become a priority for Louisiana since the COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the crucial role high-speed Internet plays in the state’s education and economic systems.
MOSCOW (AP) — Three months after McDonald’s suspended operations in Russia, hundreds of people streamed into its famous former outlet on Moscow’s Pushkin Square as the restaurant reopened, Sunday, under a Russian owner and a new name.
CARLSBAD, NM (AP) — Lesser prairie chickens once numbered in the thousands throughout the American West, thriving on the prairielands of eastern New Mexico and the American West.
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