By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday met with family members of some of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes over the …
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U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, a leading Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, will help raise money for Representative Liz Cheney, who is fighting for political survival after voting to …
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By Sheila Dang – AT&T Inc’s WarnerMedia unit reported solid fourth-quarter revenue growth on Wednesday, helped by new customers for its HBO Max streaming service, but shares of AT&T fell …
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Americas experiencing highest COVID-19 caseload since start of pandemic
BRASILIAÂ -New cases of COVID-19 in the Americas in the past week have been the highest since the pandemic began in 2020 and the very contagious Omicron variant has clearly …
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By Manojna Maddipatla -U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc on Wednesday issued a conservative annual profit forecast and warned that the highly contagious Omicron variant was likely to drive up treatment, …
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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened to a record high in December as imports increased for a fifth straight month amid strong domestic demand, …
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BOSTON – Activist investment firm Legion Partners, which last year was part of a group that settled for three board seats at retailer Kohl’s Corp, told clients that its fund …
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By Uday Sampath Kumar and Eric M. Johnson -Boeing Co said on Wednesday it incurred $4.5 billion charges in the fourth quarter on its sidelined 787 program, obscuring the U.S. …
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By Caroline Valetkevitch and Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK – As the small cap Russell 2000 hovers near bear market territory, some strategists are optimistic the index and U.S. stock market …
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By Praveen Paramasivam and Uday Sampath Kumar -Mattel Inc on Wednesday won the rights to produce dolls based on Disney royalty like Elsa and Jasmine, snatching back a highly lucrative …
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By Leroy Leo and Carl O’Donnell -Abbott Laboratories on Wednesday beat quarterly profit and sales estimates, aided by robust sales of COVID-19 test kits and strong demand for its diagnostics …
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By Jamie Freed – More than one-third of airline pilots are still not flying as the pandemic continues to take its toll on aviation globally, according to a new survey, …
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By Stephen Jewkes, Crispian Balmer and Vladimir Soldatkin MILAN/MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of ties between Russia’s energy industry and Italy as he addressed Italian business …
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-U.S. auto retail sales are expected to dip in January as reduced manufacturing due to the Omicron variant, supply chain constraints and global inflation caused prices to soar amid high …
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– Spanish energy company Repsol SA said on Wednesday it rules out a new offshore oil spill in Peru, after the Peruvian environmental regulatory agency said it was investigating if …
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MILAN – Italy’s biggest debt recovery firm doValue will aim to keep the amount of loans it manages stable at 160 billion euros ($180.5 billion) to the end of 2024, …
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– Humanitarian aid to Tonga is ramping up after the airport was cleared of ash, making it safe for planes to land, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, days after …
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WASHINGTON – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes jumped to a nine-month high in December, boosted by a severe shortage of previously owned houses on the market. New home sales …
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By Manya Saini and John McCrank – Nasdaq Inc on Wednesday reported a nearly 16% jump in fourth-quarter profit, topping Wall Street estimates, buoyed by the frenetic pace of U.S. …
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By Sujata Rao and Lewis Krauskopf LONDON/NEW YORK – U.S. stock markets, after enjoying their best three-year run in more than two decades, may soon have to cede the top …
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By Danielle Kaye and Jane Lanhee Lee NEW YORK -After a brief scare, Microsoft Corp reassured tech investors late on Tuesday that the enterprise internet cloud business category has plenty …
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BEIJING -Apple Inc achieved its highest-ever market share in China in the fourth quarter, when it was the top-selling vendor there for the first time in six years, research firm …
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OTTAWA, Jan 26 – The Bank of Canada on Wednesday said economic slack had been absorbed, setting the stage for its first rate hike since 2018, and forecast inflation would …
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By Karin Strohecker – Western countries have threatened to impose new financial and economic sanctions on Russia if it invades Ukraine. Russia, which denies planning an invasion after massing troops …
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Elderly U.S. national died from cardiac arrest after manhandling by Israeli troops, Palestinians say
By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank – An elderly Palestinian-American who was found dead after being detained by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank suffered sudden cardiac arrest caused …