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Wind power capacity gusts in ’23
The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on rec…
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Biden aims to cap credit card late fees
NEW YORK -- The Biden administration announced a rule Tuesday to cap all credit card late fees, the latest effort in the White House push to end what it has ca…
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Debt rises as many are using up savings
NEW YORK -- While the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, pockets of Americans have run through their savings and run up their credit card balances after battling…
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Buyers fret, slow U.S. sales of EVs
The Biden administration's push to entice more Americans to buy electric vehicles is falling short of expectations as consumers fret over prices, battery range…
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Standard chosen for EV connector
The White House is lending its support to an auto industry effort to standardize Tesla's electric vehicle charging plugs for all electrics in the United States…
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Alaska airline announces merger
Alaska Air Group Inc. shares sank Monday after it said it would acquire Hawaiian Holdings Inc. for $1.9 billion in cash and debt, in the latest attempt to cons…
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Firms adjust grief policies
Five days, Tom Barklage knew, was not enough time to recover from the death of his son.
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'Unsheltered neighbors' resource fair Thursday
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China’s investments in lithium triangle presents issues for U.S.
China's latest investments in South America's lithium triangle show the challenges for U.S. efforts to counter the dominance of the world's second-largest econ…
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Analysts: X has failed wartime test
Posts about the attack in Israel have led to confusion, misinformation and conflict on Elon Musk's X, exposing how his acquisition and policy changes have tran…
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UPS to hire 100,000 with higher pay for holiday rush
NEW YORK -- UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers -- at higher pay than a year ago -- to help with the Christmas holiday rush this season, in line with h…
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EU official calls X biggest source of ‘fake news’
LONDON -- A top European Union official said Tuesday that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner E…
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Air France-KLM to order 50 Airbus jets
Air France-KLM picked Airbus' A350 to renew its long-haul fleet, giving the European plane maker a major commercial win over archival Boeing as demand picks up…
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Air taxi factory planned in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon be manufacturing cutting-edge electric planes that take…
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Ukrainian exodus a wrinkle in Poland’s worker shortage
WARSAW, Poland -- Poland is losing large numbers of Ukrainian refugees from its workforce as they choose to move to Germany for the higher wages and government…
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Technology stocks tumble as inflation report looms
NEW YORK -- A slide for technology stocks weighed on Wall Street Tuesday as the market prepped for a highly anticipated report on inflation due today.
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Smurfit Kappa, WestRock join forces
Smurfit Kappa and WestRock will join to create a global packaging company with a value of almost $20 billion.
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Tech rally boosts stocks ahead of economic reports
NEW YORK -- A rally for Big Tech stocks on Monday helped Wall Street claw back about half its loss from last week.
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HS Intracity Transit DBE
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CDAC plans to meet Thursday at City Hall
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Gold IRAs lose luster for some investors
Dedicated viewers of Fox News are likely familiar with Lear Capital, a Los Angeles company that sells gold and silver coins. In recent years, the company's ads…
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Amazon reports lower carbon emissions
Amazon's carbon emissions ticked lower for the first time since the company began reporting the figure, thanks to increased purchases of renewable electricity …
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Auto workers go after a new goal
DETROIT -- Whenever the United Auto Workers union begins negotiating a new contract with Detroit's three automakers, threats of a strike are typically heard on…
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3 Fed officials: Higher rates needed
Three Federal Reserve officials on Monday said policymakers will need to raise interest rates further this year to bring inflation back to the central bank's g…
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U.N. group to debate emissions
LONDON -- In a clubby mid-rise on the River Thames, its lobby filled with models of container ships and oil tankers, a rather obscure United Nations group is g…
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Carbon offset hurt by Canada blazes
Canada's explosive wildfire season has already pumped millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is coming from vegetation bur…
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California eviction bans ending
SAN FRANCISCO -- Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, but for more than three years her …
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Teamsters at UPS
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Whiskey dog toy case to be reviewed
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday gave whiskey maker Jack Daniel's reason to raise a glass, handing the company a new chance to win a trademark dispu…
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GM opts in to Tesla EV charging
DETROIT -- Electric vehicles made by General Motors will be able to use much of Tesla's extensive charging network beginning early next year.
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New York City sues carmakers
New York City has filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia, joining a host of other cities beset by a social media-fueled wave of car thefts related to a flaw t…
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GM to invest in two Flint, Mich., plants
FLINT, Michigan -- General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two Flint manufacturing plants for the production of the next-generation internal com…
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Clean energy growth flourishing
BERLIN -- The world is set to add a record amount of renewable electricity capacity this year as governments and consumers seek to offset high energy prices an…
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Belk opens Outlet
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As India’s population soars above all, fewer women have jobs
MUMBAI, India -- Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation.
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Unpaid covid loans raise concern
Three years after Congress approved a historic amount of aid to keep small businesses from shuttering during the pandemic, the U.S. government is grappling wit…
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Prosecutors probe Credit Suisse
GENEVA -- The Swiss attorney general's office said Monday that it is investigating recent events surrounding embattled bank Credit Suisse, which is to be taken…
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Saudi Aramco reaches China refinery deals
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil giant Aramco will invest billions of dollars in China's downstream petrochemicals industry, including th…
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Disney to cut 7,000 jobs to save in costs
Walt Disney Co. this week begins its plan to cut 7,000 jobs as part of a wider effort to rejuvenate the Burbank entertainment giant's finances and reach profit…
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Salary range postings on the rise
NEW YORK -- U.S. employers are increasingly posting salary ranges for job openings, even in states where it's not required by law, according to analysts with s…
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Publisher merger is officially off table
NEW YORK -- Simon & Schuster's corporate parent has officially ended the agreement for Penguin Random House to purchase the publisher, a proposed sale a federa…
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Construction work changes bus route
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USA Truck investors
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SEED conference
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Time to double-crop, says agency
DES MOINES, Iowa -- There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go…
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Facebook’s workforce grew more diverse going remote
Facebook was one of an array of companies to dramatically restructure remote work during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing employees to continue working from …
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Consumers showing drop in confidence
WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumer confidence slipped to its lowest level in 16 months as persistent inflation and rising interest rates have Americans as pessimistic…
