ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An American Cabinet official overseeing a planned expansion of natural gas exports to Europe said that Greece could play a key role through its pipeline system that extends across the region. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited a liquefied natural gas terminal outside Athens that is linked to a bidirectional pipeline network [...]
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have accepted Microsoft’s proposed changes to Teams, resolving a long-running antitrust investigation that targeted the company’s messaging and videoconferencing app. The European Commission said in a statement that Microsoft’s final commitments to unbundle Teams from its Office software suite, including further tweaks following a market test in May and [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Steel will stop processing steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois, three months after Nippon Steel sealed a deal with President Donald Trump to buy the iconic American steelmaker by giving the government a say over decisions that affect domestic steel production. U.S. Steel will cut production [...]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, maker of weight-loss drug Wegovy, said it would cut 9,000 jobs, 5,000 of them in Denmark, in order to strengthen the company’s focus on growth opportunities in obesity and diabetes medications. The restructuring, which would eliminate 11 percent of the company’s workforce, aimed to reduce organizational [...]
Income inequality dipped, fewer people moved to a different home and the share of Asian and Hispanic residents increased in the United States last year, according to figures released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Those year-to-year changes from 2023 to 2024 were captured in the bureau’s data from the American Community Survey, the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation rose last month as the prices of gas, groceries and air fares jumped, according to a new federal government report. Consumer prices increased 2.9 percent in August from a year earlier, the Labor Department said, up from 2.7 percent the previous month and the biggest increase since January. Excluding the volatile [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials are vowing a crackdown on deceptive drug ads, but the effort is likely to face multiple headwinds, including pushback from the pharmaceutical industry and layoffs among regulators tasked with leading the effort. President Donald Trump last week signed a memo that directs [...]
Sen. Maria Cantwell warned her colleagues last week that a bill heading to the House floor that would regulate college sports would solidify an unsustainable and growing gap between the nation’s biggest athletic conferences and everyone else. In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, where Cantwell, D-Wash., is the ranking member, she [...]
Sandwich maker Potbelly is being acquired by the gas station and convenience store chain RaceTrac for $566 million. Potbelly, which was founded in Chicago in 1977, has 445 restaurants across the country. The company said the deal with RaceTrac will help it reach its goal of quadrupling in size to 2,000 locations. Potbelly stores are [...]