Jobs’ Apple-1 computer prototype auctioned for nearly $700K
BOSTON (AP) — An authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000. Boston-based RR Auction says…
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Walmart expands abortion coverage for employees
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, is expanding its abortion coverage for employees…
Continue ReadingButtigieg warns airlines to help travelers or face new rules
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has warned airlines that his department could draft new rules around…
Continue ReadingFlorida utility gets $500K fine, probation for fatal blast
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida utility has been fined $500,000 and placed on three years’ probation for a 2017 deadly explosion at a coal-fired…
Continue ReadingRussia’s Gazprom to shut gas pipeline to Europe for 3 days
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom says a key pipeline conveying natural gas to Europe will shut down for three days at…
Continue ReadingDon’t dawdle with latest iPhone update. Here’s why and how
By MAE ANDERSON and MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Apple regularly issues updates to the software powering the iPhone, and…
Continue ReadingSource: CBS extends Champions League deal for $250M a year
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The Champions League is staying on CBS in the United States for six more years. A person familiar…
Continue ReadingWayfair cutting about 870 jobs, or 5% of global workforce
Associated Press Wayfair is cutting about 870 employees, or 5% of its global workforce, as part of a plan previously announced by the home goods…
Continue ReadingGates Foundation adds Gayle, Dhawan as independent trustees
By MARIA DI MENTO and STACY PALMER of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to…
Continue ReadingUK could face public health ‘crisis’ from energy bill hike
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Public health leaders are appealing to Britain’s government to urgently tackle soaring energy…
Continue ReadingFoot Locker names former Ulta Beauty chief as CEO
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Foot Locker is naming former Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon as its chief executive, replacing…
Continue ReadingGeneral Motors reinstates dividend suspended in pandemic
Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors will reinstate quarterly dividend payments that were suspended during the pandemic that shut down…
Continue ReadingSee it? Squish it! Fighting the invasive spotted lanternfly
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press When Stephen Nixon recently noticed a “beautiful” spotted lanternfly by his bag as he skateboarded in Brooklyn,…
Continue ReadingRussia, Ukraine spar over fighting near nuclear facility
By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A fire at a munitions depot inside Russia forced the evacuation of two villages near the border…
Continue ReadingChina jails Canadian tycoon for 13 years for finance crimes
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A court says Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 has been…
Continue ReadingYangtze shrinks as China’s drought disrupts industry
By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN Associated Press CHONGQING, China (AP) — Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after China’s driest summer in…
Continue ReadingZimbabweans hit by 257% inflation: Will gold coins help?
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — After working as an overnight security guard at a church in Harare’s impoverished…
Continue ReadingNo Tube: London subway hit by strike, day after rail walkout
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A strike by London Underground workers brought the British capital’s transit network to a grinding…
Continue ReadingDoctors stay in Ukraine’s war-hit towns: ‘People need us’
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed…
Continue ReadingBomb threats put tiny Moldova, Ukraine’s neighbor, on edge
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — For tiny Moldova, an impoverished, landlocked nation that borders…
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