Category Archives: Business
DC reaches $750K settlement in Trump inaugural lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s businesses and inaugural committee have reached a deal to pay Washington, D.C., $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the committee overpaid for events at his hotel and enriched the former preside...
Biden visits Lockheed plant as weapons stockpile strained
TROY, Ala. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday credited the assembly line workers at a Javelin missile plant for doing lifesaving work in building the antitank weapons that are being sent to Ukraine to stifle Russia's invasion as
Spain govt says it has nothing to hide in spyware scandals
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government said Tuesday it had nothing to hide amid mounting unease over national security controversies involving Pegasus spyware, including the hacking of the prime minister's cellphone and spying on Catalan separatists by unkno...
German opposition leader visits Kyiv, Scholz refuses to go
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz traveled to Kyiv Tuesday for meetings with Ukrainian officials including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz made clear that he wouldn’t be visiting Ukraine ...
Strong BP profit renews call for energy sector windfall tax
LONDON (AP) — BP posted its highest quarterly profit in more than a decade thanks to surging oil and gas prices, renewing calls for a U.K. government tax on energy companies' windfall earnings to help households struggling with rising energy
Pope offers to meet Putin, still waiting to hear back
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told an Italian newspaper he had offered to travel to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin to try to end Russia's war in Ukraine and suggested the invasion might have been provoked by
Slovakia, Hungary won’t back EU sanctions on Russian energy
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Slovakia and Hungary said Tuesday that they will not support sanctions against Russian energy that the European Union is preparing over the war in Ukraine, saying they are too reliant on those supplies and there are
Canadians trail Americans in desire to use and invest in cryptocurrency, poll finds
Canadians are less likely than Americans to use or invest in cryptocurrencies, says a new survey released Tuesday. The Ipsos survey conducted as part of larger social sciences and humanities funded research project says 24 per cent of Americans would u...
Live updates | Ukrainians wait in Mexico City for US entry
MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are camping out in Mexico City and waiting for the U.S. government to allow them into the country. About 500
Australian central bank hikes rate for 1st time in 11 years
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank on Tuesday lifted its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than 11 years. The cash rate rose from 0.1% to 0.35% in a move potentially damaging to a government that
