WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil prices spiked last week after the United States announced new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to lure Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine. U.S. benchmark crude jumped 5.6 percent to $61.79 per barrel and analysts say if the situation [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google to acquire more of the computing power needed for the startup’s chatbot, Claude. Anthropic said the deal will give it access to up to 1 million of Google’s AI computer chips and is “worth tens of billions of dollars and [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration has finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the decision last week that paves the way for future lease sales within the refuge’s 1.5 million-acre coastal plain, an area that’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation remained elevated last month as gas prices jumped while the cost of rents cooled, painting a mixed picture of the expenses consumers are facing. Consumer prices increased 3 percent in September from a year earlier, according to the latest data from the Labor Department. That’s the highest since January and up [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The indictment that led to the arrest of more than 30 people, including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and other NBA figures, on charges of illegal sports betting has drawn new scrutiny of the booming business of professional sports gambling. Since widespread legalization, the multibillion-dollar industry has made it easy to [...]
Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft last week introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico, a floating cartoon face shaped similar to a blob or flame that will embody the software giant’s Copilot virtual assistant and marks [...]
A marketer of shark-repellant sunscreen, a maker of chocolate-flavored whiskey and a seller of a drink that promises to quickly lower blood-alcohol levels had, until recently, significant losses and floundering stock prices in common. Now, they’re members of a legion of publicly traded companies helping to power one of the biggest trends in markets and [...]
Principals in Ohio will vote next month on a referendum that could clear the way for name, image and likeness agreements for high school athletes in the state, after a lawsuit by a standout wide receiver forced the issue. The vote — which will take place Nov. 17-21 — was moved up six months after [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security cost-of-living increase will go up by 2.8 percent in 2026, which translates to an average increase of more than $56 for retirees every month, agency officials said. The benefits increase for nearly 71 million Social Security recipients will go into effect in January. Increased payments to nearly 7.5 million [...]