Apple has taken down an app that uses crowdsourcing to track and anonymously flag sightings of American immigration agents. ICEBlock, a free iPhone-only app that lets users anonymously report and monitor activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, was no longer available on Apple’s App Store as of Friday. “We just received a message from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, a regulatory formality that quickly triggered pushback from anti-abortion groups and politicians aligned with the Trump administration. Drugmaker Evita Solutions announced on its website that the Food and Drug Administration signed off on its low-cost form of the pill, which [...]
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Pete Carroll could be just about anywhere, doing nearly anything that comes to mind, after accomplishing so much as a championship-winning coach in college and the NFL, the multimillion-dollar contracts he received as reward for such efforts. After a year away from the NFL, however, the 74-year-old Carroll chose to return [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway is buying Occidental Petroleum’s chemical division for $9.7 billion in what may be the last big acquisition involving the consummate dealmaker, Warren Buffett. Buffett wasn’t mentioned anywhere in materials released last week by Berkshire Hathaway discussing the deal, potentially signaling a passing of the torch to Vice Chair Greg [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla reported an increase in sales in the third quarter as the electric-car maker likely benefited from a rush by consumers to take advantage of a $7,500 government credit before it expired on Sept. 30. The company reported that sales in the three months through September rose 7 percent compared to [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights with the going price for New York spot gold hitting a record $3,858.45 per troy ounce — the standard for measuring precious metals — last week. Analysts say gold sales can rise when anxious investors seek “safe havens” for parking their money. [...]
The state Department of Development has awarded the city of Newark a $1 million roadwork grant to support a project designed to improve truck traffic servicing the Packaging Corporation of America. The roadwork will consist of widening Thornwood Drive to allow for the addition of a turn lane and the construction of a roundabout at [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — DoorDash has finalized its acquisition of the United Kingdom food delivery company Deliveroo, saying last week that the boards of both companies approved the nearly $4 billion deal announced earlier this year. Word of DoorDash’s interest in Deliveroo began to circulate in April and the San Francisco company quickly confirmed that it [...]