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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily approved Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator in a bipartisan vote Wednesday. Barr, a former top Treasury official under President Barack Obama, is the last of President Joe Biden’s three nominees to the Fed’s board of governors to win
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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Wednesday that his administration will immediately begin rolling out his long-blocked school voucher program after a judge lifted an injunction that had prevented it from being implemented. “Starting today, we will work to help eligible parents enroll this
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN A Virginia judge denied seven post-trial motions Amber Heard filed in an attempt to fight the jury verdict handed down in the defamation case with her ex-husband Johnny Depp. After a weeks-long trial, a jury in June awarded $15 million in damages to Depp and only $2 million to Heard
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Twitter is telling its employees that it’s not planning any companywide layoffs, but there could be some restructuring and organization changes as it heads into a legal battle over the potential sale to Elon Musk. The San Francisco company included the communication in a filing Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Japan’s Panasonic Corp. and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly say the company selected the state of Kansas as the location for a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other carmakers. The company was lured to Kansas by taxpayer-funded incentives worth
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By JOHN HANNA and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Japan’s Panasonic Corp. and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly say the company selected the state Kansas as the location for a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other carmakers. The company was lured to Kansas by taxpayer-funded incentives worth $829
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for Sen. Lindsey Graham say he wasn’t trying to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 election when he called state officials to ask them to reexamine certain absentee ballots after President Donald Trump’s narrow loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The arguments came in a court filing Tuesday
Continue Reading By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds of people filled a theater as family and friends shared their memories of Jayland Walker at his funeral. The 25-year-old Black man was killed June 27 in a hail of police gunfire in Akron, Ohio. Mourners passed his open casket Wednesday during the pre-funeral viewing
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Twitter is telling its employees that it’s not planning any companywide layoffs, but there could be some restructuring and organization changes as it heads into a legal battle over the potential sale to Elon Musk. The San Francisco company included the communication in a filing Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In a story published July 10, 2022, about pension funds that have invested in cryptocurrencies in recent years, The Associated Press listed two different values for the same cryptocurrency purchase by the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund. The correct amount is $25 million, not $15 million.
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In a story published July 10, 2022, about pension funds that have invested in cryptocurrencies in recent years, The Associated Press listed two different values for the same cryptocurrency purchase by the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund. The correct amount is $25 million, not $15 million.
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In a story published July 10, 2022, about pension funds that have invested in cryptocurrencies in recent years, The Associated Press listed two different values for the same cryptocurrency purchase by the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund. The correct amount is $25 million, not $15 million.
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — En 1969, el inversor en bienes raíces Don Fisher abrió una tienda en San Francisco pensada para adolescentes y universitarios que ofrecía pantalones de mezclilla Levi’s, así como discos y casettes. Fisher planeaba llamar la tienda “Pants and Discs”, pero a su esposa Doris se le ocurrió el
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high in June because of rising prices for gas, food and rent, squeezing household budgets and pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively — trends that raise the risk of a recession. The government’s consumer price index
Continue Reading By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A state senator in Rhode Island who was suspended from TikTok after posting a video in which she twerked while doing a handstand in a bikini says she has no regrets. Sen. Tiara Mack was briefly banned from the app Tuesday, The 28-year-old Providence Democrat is Black
Continue Reading By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russian missile strikes in the southern city of Mykolaiv have killed at least five people. That’s part of a series of artillery and missile barrages across the country in the last day that have left at least 10 dead and dozens wounded.
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN The ability to enhance your body is everywhere today: wearable tech to help you sleep better or exercise more efficiently, “smart drugs” to sharpen your focus and memory recall, injectable fillers to tweak the features of your face, genetic testing to identify and mitigate potential health risks. But what if humans fully
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican air force plane has landed at an airport near Mexico City bearing eight bodies of the 53 migrants who were found dead in a truck in Texas last month. They were the first to be returned of the 26 Mexicans among those who died of heat and dehydration in
Continue Reading WHITEWOOD, Va. (AP) — Flooding in a remote pocket of southwest Virginia has damaged more than 100 homes and left some 40 people unaccounted for, but there are no confirmed deaths or injuries, authorities said Wednesday. First responders in Buchanan County began receiving reports of rising water and damage Tuesday night, authorities said at a
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Ted Barrett, CNN South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is aiming to quash a subpoena for his testimony before an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. “I just filed a motion to quash the subpoena. We’ll see what
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