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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety inspectors say baby formula maker Abbott failed to maintain sanitary conditions at the Michigan manufacturing plant recently linked to a cluster of infant illnesses. The Food and Drug Administration began investigating the plant after Abbott recalled several leading infant formulas. The products have been

SEATTLE (AP) — Baristas and other employees at a Seattle Starbucks have voted to unionize, the first such vote in the city where Starbucks originated and the latest in a nationwide push to organize the coffee shop chain. The Seattle Times reports the unanimous vote announced Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board is also

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Even though only a small percentage of Walt Disney Co. workers participated in a walkout, organizers felt they had won a moral victory with the company issuing a statement denouncing the anti-LGBTQ legislation that sparked employee outrage. Throughout Tuesday, pockets of employees staged

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Although not in the courtroom, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes loomed over the opening day of a trial that will determine whether her jilted lover and former business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was her partner in crime. In opening statements Tuesday, a federal prosecutor depicted

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — With some workers across the U.S. staging a walkout, The Walt Disney Co. finds itself performing a high-wire act of balancing the expectations of a diverse workforce against demands from an increasingly polarized and politicized marketplace. On the one side are LGBTQ supporters

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says it will increase transit fees for vessels, including oil-laden tankers, passing through Suez Canal. The Suez Canal Authority says it will add 15% to the normal transit fees for oil-laden and petroleum products-laden tankers, up from current 5%. It says the increases will take effect

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left behind on the floor of the Long Island Sound, a “ghost fishery” that continues to trap and kill marine life to this day. It comes about two decades after Connecticut’s lobster

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Nike, Alibaba rise; Okta, Hess fall.

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — The owner of disqualified Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit is among the bidders for Premier League club Chelsea as part of the accelerated search for a new owner. Amr Zedan, a Los Angeles-born Saudi investor, has registered his bid with the Raine Group — the

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami has ruled that four of the largest cruise companies engaged in tourism to Cuba that was barred by law between 2015 and 2019. U.S. Judge Beth Bloom said Monday that Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and MSC Cruises must compensate the descendants

By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer BuzzFeed is shrinking and shifting the focus of its Pulitzer prize-winning news division. The digital media company best known for its lighthearted lists and quizzes says it is striving to increase its profitability. It is offering voluntary buyouts in its high-profile, 100-person newsroom. Its news division is unprofitable but

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says President Joe Biden plans to announce new sanctions against Russia on Thursday while in Brussels. Biden will be there for meetings with NATO and European allies. Biden is also expected to underscore efforts to enforce the avalanche of existing

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — With some workers across the U.S. staging a walkout, The Walt Disney Co. finds itself performing a high-wire act of balancing the expectations of a diverse workforce against demands from an increasingly polarized and politicized marketplace. On the one side are LGBTQ supporters

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French energy giant TotalEnergies says it has decided to halt all its purchases of Russian oil and petroleum products by the end of the year at the latest. The French company said in a statement Tuesday that it will “gradually suspend its activities in Russia” amid

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An institution that has offered guided tours of the World Trade Center site since well before the national Sept. 11 museum was built is in financial trouble. Leaders say the smaller 9/11 Tribute Museum is poised to close within weeks, barring a last-minute rescue from millions

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has suspended construction work on a huge new business park that will house Amazon’s Africa headquarters in Cape Town after a challenge by Indigenous groups. The groups say the development will spoil an area that’s sacred to them. The First Nations Indigenous people

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota environmental regulators say damage to the state’s public groundwater resources from missteps during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline is more severe than previously known. The state Department of Natural Resources says Enbridge Energy crews ruptured three groundwater aquifers while building the 340-mile pipeline across northern Minnesota last