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Month: March 2024

China pledges to increase opportunities for foreign companies as it seeks to boost its economy

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Vice President Han Zheng has pledged to provide more opportunities for foreign companies in China as the government tries to restore confidence in the world’s second largest economy. Han told an audience of American business people in Beijing on Friday that the government would continue to

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Haley says she raised a strong $12M in February, but can’t point to long-term plan to beat Trump

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she raised $12 million in February. That’s a haul that will likely allow her to remain in the Republican primary against former President Donald Trump past next week’s Super Tuesday — even though she can’t point to an upcoming state where

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Desert Sun journalists headed back to work after reaching deal with Gannett

Update March 3, 2024: Desert Sun Journalists announced they have reached a tentative contract agreement with Gannett. The deal includes raises in pay, up to sixteen and a half percent for Guild members, as well as some workplace protections. The employees’ actions for better living conditions reportedly began about 3 years ago. Desert Sun Journalists

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Orchard expansion in Canada’s wine country stirs fears a key wildlife corridor will be harmed

AARON HEMENS, IndigiNEWS KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Just below the fog line hanging over the central Okanagan Valley, rows of saplings for a cherry orchard expansion span the eastern stretch above Highway 33 on the outskirts of Kelowna in Canada’s wine country. New cherry varieties and climate change in British Columbia’s interior have enabled

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World Athletics trying to ‘remain politically neutral’ during conflicts, says Sebastian Coe

By Amanda Davies, Aleks Klosok and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says that his organization is trying to “remain politically neutral” where possible when handling the impact of global conflicts and geopolitics on the sport. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have been excluded from events staged by World Athletics, the

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Black Americans’ significant economic and civil rights progress threatened, report says

By MATT BROWN Associated Pres WASHINGTON (AP) — Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality throughout U.S. history. But their social, economic and political advances in the past 60 years have been unsatisfactory. That’s according to a new annual study on racial progress, called the “State of Black America.” The

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