EXPLAINER: How cryptocurrencies work (and how they don’t)
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all…
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — In Shanghai, a city of 25 million people with hundreds of thousands of COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — With the cryptocurrency industry under increasing pressure to rein in the environmental…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines says it lost $1.38 billion in the first quarter of 2022 but it expects to return to profitability in the current…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Michigan’s Democratic governor wants a nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan to stay open and she’s asking…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former New York state judge to a year and three months in…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX railroad struggled to keep up with demand in the first three months of the year. But it…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer A new federal report finds that record-keeping failures by the Education Department may have left thousands of…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has reported first-quarter net earnings over seven times greater than a year ago. The electric…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stock indexes ended mixed on Wall Street Wednesday after another bumpy day of trading. Netflix lost more than a third of its…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: IBM, Stride rise; Netflix, Baker Hughes…
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Senate has passed a bill to repeal a law allowing Walt Disney World to…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. rolled out new sanctions on Wednesday against more than 40 individuals and entities…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals has agreed to a $10 million settlement over its role in selling prescription opioids in San…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The idea was presented to Florida lawmakers in a movie house outside…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — In a story published April 20, 2022, about marijuana banking reform, The Associated Press erroneously reported that U.S. Sen. Patty…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are warning that rising…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge in California has rejected a request from shareholders in a lawsuit to force Elon Musk…
Continue ReadingBy JIM RENDON of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy A new effort to help grantmakers change the way they work so they can better…
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