House votes to block China from buying oil from US reserves
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The European Union is thinking about injecting more subsidies into its…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department accused Los Angeles-based City National Bank on Thursday of discrimination…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Add Burning Man to the list of plaintiffs challenging one of the growing number of “green…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After two straight weekly increases, the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate came back down again…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says the government is in talks to persuade companies that have started lithium mining projects in…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE and JOSH FUNK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Thinking of lining up at the mini-mart for a shot at a $1.35 billion…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights group says an opposition politician who ran against authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Planes have been full recently and fares are up, which is good for airlines. American Airlines is…
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s Parliament is demanding that the country’s government renegotiate the energy part of an EU-funded…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Virgin Orbit said Thursday its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. failed after its rocket’s upper…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers U.S. air travel has returned mostly to normal, a day after a computer system that sends safety…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Love her or loathe her, Barbie has been transformed again, this time into a version for children…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Activist investor Nelson Peltz is fighting for a seat on the board of Walt Disney Co., claiming that the…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to their lowest level in 15 weeks as…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest companies have less of a stranglehold on the stock market — and likely on your…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia says its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s highest court says travelers whose package tours were ruined by the imposition of restrictions to combat…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The beginning of the end of Europe’s dependency on China for precious rare earth…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has dropped sedition charges against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for his role in the region’s…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals have ended a three-day strike after reaching…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other…
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 9.5% in 2022 as electric vehicle purchases…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Friday in Asia after news that U.S. consumer inflation slowed last month…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising U.S. consumer prices moderated again last month, bolstering hopes that…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — TikTok will be banned from all Mississippi-issued government devices…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The map was called “Beach Trip” and was blasted out to more than 18,000…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers for Tesla shareholders suing the electric vehicle maker’s CEO Elon Musk…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Legislature embarked on a path toward legalizing recreational marijuana…
Continue ReadingFRISCO, Texas (AP) — Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children, officials…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From a litter box that automatically cleans itself to buttons designed to allow your dog to…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Until Wednesday, few travelers had ever heard of a Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM,…
Continue ReadingSANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-bound Amtrak passenger train that started in Virginia was delayed for almost a day by the derailment of a freight…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street as investors made their final moves ahead of a highly anticipated report on inflation. The…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Wells Fargo & Co., up 38 cents to $42.74. The bank said…
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — The judge presiding over the bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading is allowing…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top military officer has been put in charge of troops fighting in Ukraine on…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has lauded investments from Canada and says he will meet with Canadian companies that may have a problem…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery rose $2.29 to $77.41 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for March delivery rose…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board is expressing concern about the safety risks that…
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Western Union says it has resumed remittance services between the U.S. and Cuba in a limited…
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will travel to Europe next week for a five-day…
Continue ReadingPONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Electric vehicles took two of three categories for the first time in this year’s North American Car, Truck and Utility…
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The naming rights deal between FTX and Miami-Dade County has been terminated by a federal…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Returning a kick or punt for a touchdown has never been rarer in the NFL with one coming on average every 30…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s postal service says it has been hit by a “cyber incident” that’s temporarily preventing it from sending letters or…
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press The film “Devotion” reignited efforts to repatriate the remains of Jesse Brown, America’s first Black Navy…
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