PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — ExxonMobil signed a deal this week to explore a vast area near Trinidad and Tobago for oil and gas, even as the twin-island nation faces pressure to focus more on green- energy deals. The search will take place off Trinidad’s east coast, in a region that spans more than 2,700 square [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Just five months after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Spirit Airlines is warning about its future ability to stay in business. Spirit Aviation Holdings, the budget carrier’s parent company, says it has “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern over the next year, which is accounting-speak [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio this week ruled that Henry County was the proper venue to try the state’s case against a Toledo gang member who supplied the cocaine for sale to a confidential informant in the neighboring county. The high court concluded that because the gang’s drug distributor participated in the activity in which [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving overall prices modestly higher than a year ago. Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in July from a year earlier, according to new figures from the Labor Department. That’s the same rate [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — AOL’s dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow. Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around, but AOL says it’s officially pulling the plug for its service on Sept. 30. “AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet,” AOL [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build and will outcompete rival models. The automaker’s top executive unveiled the new EV strategy at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant which, after producing gas-powered vehicles [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days, delaying a showdown between the world’s two biggest economies. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he signed the executive order for the extension and that “all other elements of the Agreement will remain the same.” [...]
Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts. The long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States, however. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration approved commercial home deliveries with drones, the service mostly has been confined [...]
Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store. Musk posted the comments on X, saying, “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok [...]