Bill Gates made 2022’s biggest charitable donation
By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Bill Gates topped The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the…
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2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023. The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur…
Continue ReadingEPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes
By JIM SALTER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday finalized regulations that…
Continue ReadingVolkswagen recalls Beetles to replace Takata air bags
Associated Press Volkswagen is recalling nearly 42,000 Beetles in the U.S. and Canada because they have potentially dangerous Takata air bag…
Continue ReadingAtlantic City betting it can put COVID behind it in 2023
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casinos are betting they can finally put the COVID pandemic behind…
Continue ReadingAt Southwest Airlines, a day of calm after a week of chaos
By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines returned to a relatively normal flight schedule Friday, as the focus shifts to…
Continue ReadingIndonesia lifts all COVID curbs, shifts to endemic approach
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Almost three years after officials announced the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in…
Continue ReadingJapan tests all China arrivals for COVID as cases surge
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has started requiring COVID-19 tests for all passengers arriving from China as an emergency…
Continue ReadingIsozaki, Pritzker-winning Japanese architect, dies at 91
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended…
Continue ReadingHuawei says it’s out of ‘crisis mode,’ though revenue flat
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese technology giant Huawei says it has pulled itself out of “crisis mode” following years of…
Continue ReadingS&P 500 closes out dismal year with worst loss since 2008
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a quiet day of trading with more losses Friday, as it closed the book on…
Continue ReadingTrump’s returns shed light on tax offsets, foreign accounts
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN and CHRIS RUGABER Associated Press Democrats in Congress released thousands of pages of former President Donald…
Continue ReadingCanada tribunal won’t block proposed big telecom merger
OTTAWA (AP) — Canada’s Competition Tribunal has rejected an effort by the country’s competition watchdog to block the proposed merger of Rogers…
Continue ReadingIndiana blocks Chinese-owned app TikTok from state devices
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from state devices, its technology office said Thursday. The…
Continue ReadingProbe: Alzheimer’s drug approval ‘rife with irregularities’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s contentious approval of a questionable Alzheimer’s drug took another hit Thursday as…
Continue ReadingWarren Buffett jumps into local politics to fight streetcar
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to…
Continue ReadingKentucky, Ohio get $1.6B to fix overloaded bridge, add span
CINCINNATI (AP) — Kentucky and Ohio will get more than $1.6 billion in federal grants to help build a new Ohio River bridge near Cincinnati. They…
Continue ReadingHow major US stock indexes fared Thursday 12/29/2022
The Associated Press Stocks rallied to a higher close on Wall Street as new jobless benefits data showed that the labor market remains strong. The…
Continue ReadingViaSat, Nvidia rise; Cal-Maine Foods falls
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: ViaSat Inc., up $1.91 to $31.76. The provider of satellite…
Continue ReadingFeds sue drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen over opioid sales
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a major drug wholesaler contributed to the…
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