Category Archives: Business
Amid military atrocities, Myanmar public urges gas sanctions
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The young woman in Myanmar decided to speak out when she realized that money from the company she loved was now in the hands of the military leaders she hated.
States volunteer to take more cuts in Colorado River water
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Water leaders in Arizona, Nevada and California signed an agreement Wednesday to voluntarily reduce their take from the Colorado River to help stave off mandatory cuts in the upcoming years.
AP source: Biden, Manchin sharply divided over $2T Dem bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin were said to be sharply divided Wednesday over Democrats' huge social and environment bill, with the holdout senator pushing to erase the measure's improved child tax credit, as leaders' hopes
EU, ex-Soviet state leaders meet as Russia tensions simmer
BRUSSELS (AP) — As tensions with Russia simmer, European Union leaders met Wednesday with their counterparts from Ukraine and four other former Soviet republics and pledged to deepen political, trade, energy and cultural ties.
EU, ex-Soviet state leaders meet as Russia tensions simmer
BRUSSELS (AP) — As tensions with Russia simmer, European Union leaders met Wednesday with their counterparts from Ukraine and four other former Soviet republics and pledged to deepen political, trade, energy and cultural ties.
US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal dollars to battle the coronavirus pandemic across multiple fronts.
San Francisco to require sick leave for nannies, gardeners
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nannies, house cleaners, gardeners and other San Francisco domestic workers must be given paid sick leave under a groundbreaking law approved by city leaders this week.
Macklem vows clarity so Canadians trust Bank of Canada as inflation stays at 4.7%
OTTAWA — The man at the helm of the Bank of Canada says the central bank has grown uncomfortable with hot inflation readings, which remained at an 18-year high last month, as he vowed to rein in price increases. Governor Tiff
Montana advances grizzly bear plans that could allow hunting
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials on Tuesday advanced plans that could allow grizzly bear hunting in areas around Glacier and Yellowstone national parks, if states in the U.S. northern Rockies succeed in their attempts to lift federal p...
San Francisco mayor pledges more police, safety measures
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mayor of San Francisco on Tuesday announced even more initiatives aimed at curbing open drug use, brazen home break-ins and other criminal behavior that she says have made a mockery of the city's famed tolerance
