By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour this year. The Minneapolis-based discount retailer said Monday that it will adopt minimum
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — AOL founder Steve Case started to build the online services company nearly 40 years ago before the internet became a mainstream phenomenon. For nearly the past decade, he has focused on helping establish technology hubs far from Silicon Valley and other large cities such
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN An open letter from Ukrainian athletes is calling for Russia and Belarus to be banned from international sport, including the upcoming Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. The letter, addressed to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) |President Andrew Parsons, says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is
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By MOLLY SPRAYREGEN Associated Press Planning a road trip with your dog? Many people love having their best friend along for their travels. Experts offer some advice for preparing. First, teach your dog to love the car before your trip. Give treats and toys so the car is seen as something fun. Bring blankets, bowls
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN The US is taking immediate action on Monday to prohibit American dollar transactions with the Russian central bank and fully block the Russian direct investment fund, senior administration officials said, an aggressive move that aims at some of Russia’s most powerful means of mitigating
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets pointed toward a lower open Monday and the ruble plunged to a record low of less than 1 U.S. cent after Western nations moved to block some Russian banks from a global payments system. On Wall Street, futures for the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 both fell less
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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — British boxing authorities are investigating the scoring of a world title fight that saw Scottish fighter Josh Taylor retain his light-welterweight belts in a split-decision victory. English challenger Jack Catterall outboxed Taylor and landed more successful punches than his rival in Saturday’s bout. Two of the three judges still scored in
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan because of a “system malfunction” that a domestic supplier suspects is a cyberattack. Kojima Industries Corp., the supplier, is based in Toyota city in central Japan. It makes a wide
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BEREGSURANY, Hungary (AP) — The mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union has showed no signs of stopping as they flee Russia’s burgeoning war. The U.N. estimated Monday that more than 500,000 people have already escaped. Long lines of cars and buses were
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN The Golden State Warriors blew a 19-point fourth quarter lead to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday in a thrilling game at Chase Center. Steph Curry had hit a three-pointer with 10 seconds remaining to give the Warriors hope, but Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic made two free throws with 7.9 seconds left
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Sberbank and the Russian bank’s subsidiaries in southeastern Europe are facing closures or takeovers following international sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. The European Central Bank said Monday that Sberbank Europe AG and its branches in Slovenia and Croatia are failing or likely
Continue Reading GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Sporting sanctions against Russia have led to a run on soccer jerseys in the city of Gelsenkirchen. Demand for shirts of German club Schalke have gone up on the same day the second-division team dropped Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom as its main sponsor. Fans have been scrambling to buy a
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN If you were obese, smoked or had a psychological disorder in adolescence, you might age faster than your peers as an adult, new research has found. Adolescents ages 11 to 15 who were obese, smoked cigarettes daily, or had a psychological disorder, such as anxiety, depression or ADHD, biologically aged nearly
Continue Reading PARMA, Italy (AP) — Former Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has renewed his contract with second-division club Parma through the 2023-24 season. It means he plans to play until he’s at least 46. Buffon held up a Parma shirt with “2024” on it together with the club’s American owner Kyle Krause at a news conference held
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet If you’re young and healthy, adding a “trusted contact” to your financial accounts probably sounds like a far-off task for when you think your memory or judgment is going. Trusted contacts can be useful if those things happen, but also in other situations — if you are displaced by a
Continue ReadingCNN By Charles Riley, CNN Business The West has pledged to remove some Russian banks from SWIFT, a messaging service that connects financial institutions around the world, as part of a barrage of sanctions designed to limit Moscow’s ability to pay for its war in Ukraine. The United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business The West has pledged to remove some Russian banks from SWIFT, a messaging service that connects financial institutions around the world, as part of a barrage of sanctions designed to limit Moscow’s ability to pay for its war in Ukraine. The United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Sports bodies across Europe have moved to further isolate and condemn Russia following its invasion of Ukraine by refusing to host or play against teams from the country. Finland wants the Russian hockey team to be banned from the men’s world championships it will host in
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, DAVID McHUGH and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Ordinary Russians are facing the prospect of higher prices as Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine sent the ruble plummeting. That’s led uneasy people to line up at banks and ATMs in a country that has seen more than one currency
Continue Reading SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Northern California authorities found a 2-year-old boy who was inside a car when it was stolen. Police say the 2008 Buick Enclave was taken while Jacob Jardine’s mother was unloading groceries at about 4 a.m. Sunday in Sunnyvale, south of San Francisco. The California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for
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