Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 47 cents to $89.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…
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Storms ground US air travelers as airlines cancel flights
NEW YORK (AP) — Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers. Airlines canceled about…
Continue ReadingJudge: Agency keeps ignoring environment in coal region plan
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has rejected a federal agency’s plans for managing some public lands in the…
Continue ReadingDems change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in…
Continue Reading5 key takeaways from the July jobs report
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — July’s jobs report was a stunner, in more ways than one. Despite raging inflation and anxiety…
Continue ReadingWarner Bros. Discovery Q2 results miss Wall Street’s view
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery, which went public in April, missed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter…
Continue ReadingPipeline developer pleads no contest in pollution cases
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The developer of a major pipeline system has pleaded no contest to criminal charges…
Continue ReadingHourly workers still have leverage as US hiring booms
By CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — As inflation skyrockets, hourly workers keep changing jobs in pursuit of higher wages. And with…
Continue ReadingUS agency probes Tesla crashes that killed 2 motorcyclists
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal…
Continue ReadingVatican beats deficit projections, gives uncertain outlook
ROME (AP) — The Vatican recorded a 3 million euro deficit last year, far less than the 33 million euros projected. But the Holy See said Friday…
Continue ReadingMall of America reopens following shooting and lockdown
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban…
Continue ReadingGreece’s intelligence chief resigns amid spyware scandal
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…
Continue ReadingAmazon to buy vacuum maker iRobot for roughly $1.7B
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…
Continue ReadingPutin hosts Erdogan for talks on trade, Ukraine, Syria
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with…
Continue Reading3 more ships with grain depart Ukraine ports under UN deal
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…
Continue ReadingMusk countersuit accuses Twitter of fraud over ‘bot’ count
Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…
Continue ReadingPacific rim economies in doldrums, sapped by inflation, war
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…
Continue ReadingFarmers’ group: Talks with Dutch govt delivered ‘too little’
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…
Continue ReadingMeta quieter on election misinformation as midterms loom
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting…
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