PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Seven men from Chile have been charged in Florida federal court with orchestrating burglaries at the homes of prominent professional athletes around the country, according to a criminal complaint. The FBI complaint doesn’t name the athletes, but lists burglaries already made public involving Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, and the [...]
Slightly more Americans applied for jobless benefits for the week ending Feb. 15, but layoffs remained in the same recent healthy range. The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose by 5,000 to 219,000, the Labor Department said. Analysts projected that 215,000 new applications would be filed. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Lithium and other elements that the United States needs for military, energy and other applications could become harder to obtain if the Trump administration goes ahead with tariffs and other protectionist policies aimed at China, according to analysts. China refines more than 90 percent of the global supply of so-called “rare [...]
New York last week sued some of the country’s biggest distributors of electronic cigarettes, accusing the companies of violating state laws that prohibit the sale of vaping flavors and designs that appeal to children. Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit targeting middlemen that distribute fruit- and candy-flavored e-cigarettes such as Puff Bar and Elf [...]
BEIJING (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has found a sponsor in China to replace long-term commercial partner Panasonic from Japan. Electronics company TCL was signed to an eight-year, four-Olympics deal through 2032 in the sponsor category of home audiovisual equipment and appliances, the IOC said. The value in cash and operational services was not [...]
BERLIN (AP) — The United States was Germany’s biggest single trading partner last year for the first time since 2015, displacing China from the top spot as exports to the Asian power declined, official figures showed. Trade between the United States and Germany, which has Europe’s biggest economy, rose 0.1 percent from $264.3 billion in [...]
Researchers say an Ohio State University-led study validates the premise that the relative safety of a generic drug is linked to where it is manufactured. Study co-author John Gray, a professor of operations at the university’s Fisher College of Business, said the data illustrated that all generic drugs are not equal, despite patients often being [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Since his election, President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed support for a long natural gas pipeline in Alaska — comments that have drawn fresh attention to a project that’s floundered for years despite support from state leaders. Trump mentioned the pipeline at a news conference with Japan’s prime minister earlier this [...]
Electric-vehicle maker Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year. Nikola was a hot start-up and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scandal and its founder was convicted in 2022 for misleading investors about the Arizona company’s technology. [...]