Disney posts higher second-quarter earnings and revenue thanks to strong theme parks business
Ongoing strength at its theme parks and an improving streaming business propelled The Walt Disney Co. to higher profits and revenue in its fiscal second quarter
2023-05-11 05:23
Transcript: AP interview with Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here is a transcript of an Associated Press interview Wednesday with Tom Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. It has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
2023-05-11 05:21
Why Ryan Reynolds, Snoop Dogg, other celebrities want to buy the Ottawa Senators
Multiple celebrities are in the mix for a minority ownership stake in the NHL’s Ottawa Senators
2023-05-11 04:46
Fed's Barkin: Inflation still 'stubbornly high' and isn't easing fast enough toward 2% target
Inflation remains “stubbornly high” and is no longer making much progress toward the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, a top Fed official said Wednesday, hours after price data for April were released
2023-05-11 03:52
Sports betting industry predicts 'microbets' next big thing, worrying safe-bet advocates
Imagine being able to make a bet with this level of specificity: the Yankees’ Aaron Judge will hit a home run on the fourth pitch he sees in a given at bat, which will be a curveball spinning at a certain speed
2023-05-11 03:26
Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover
Google has disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial-intelligence technology
2023-05-11 02:58
3 companies to pay $615,000 in NY attorney general investigation over faked net neutrality comments
New York’s attorney general says three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to support the contentious 2017 federal repeal of net neutrality rules have agreed to pay $615,000 in penalties to New York and other states
2023-05-11 02:47
Tributes pour in for AFP journalist killed in Ukraine
Colleagues of Arman Soldin, the Agence France-Presse journalist slain Tuesday in Ukraine, have gathered solemnly at the press agency’s Paris headquarters Wednesday to remember him
2023-05-11 02:18
To stem the housing crisis, religious congregations are building homes
The crowd that prayed together at Arlington Presbyterian Church’s Sunday worship service had dwindled from more than 100 to a few dozen
2023-05-11 01:55
FDA panel backs over-the-counter birth control pill
Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold without a prescription
2023-05-11 01:27
UK ditches post-Brexit plan to scrap thousands of EU laws by year's end
The U.K. government has scrapped plan to remove all remaining EU laws from British statute books by the end of this year
2023-05-11 00:58
Can you afford to age in place?
Most older adults ages 50 to 80 say it’s important to stay in their homes for as long as they can, according to the 2022 National Poll on Healthy Aging from the University of Michigan
2023-05-10 23:52