The French government has moved to requisition workers operating petrol depots of ExxonMobil’s French branch Esso in an attempt to ensure that service stations around the country are supplied with …
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10/12/22
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Joe Biden’s three-state swing out West this week will capture, in a nutshell, the White House’s midterm strategy for a president who remains broadly unpopular: Promote his administration’s …
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By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG
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10/12/22
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A Polish oil pipeline operator says that a leak was detected in a pipeline in Poland which is the main route through which Russian crude reaches Germany. The operator said Wednesday that it detected …
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10/12/22
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The pound sank against the dollar after the governor of the Bank of England confirmed the bank will not extend an emergency debt-buying plan introduced last month to stabilize financial markets. …
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10/12/22
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European leaders are turning to Africa for more natural gas as they try to replace Russian energy amid the war in Ukraine. While Africa’s natural gas reserves are vast and North African countries …
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By KRISTA LARSON
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10/12/22
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The Japanese space agency says a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in …
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
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10/12/22
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As is traditional in the fall, NBC's Sunday night football telecast dominated the weekly television rankings, in this case a game between Cincinnati and Baltimore. Pro football programming held down …
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10/11/22
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Facebook parent Meta has unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset with the hope people will soon be using it to work in the virtual reality of the still-elusive place called the metaverse. The …
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY
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10/11/22
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California’s four-year-old legal marijuana market is in disarray. So the state’s top prosecutor says he will try a new broader approach to disrupting the illegal pot farms that undercut the legal …
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By DON THOMPSON
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10/11/22
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TikTok appears to be deepening its foray into e-commerce. It's indicating in job listings that it has plans to operate its own U.S. warehouses, the kind of packing and shipping facilities more …
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By HALELUYA HADERO
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10/11/22
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A former manager for a Silicon Valley security business has testified at a sheriff’s civil corruption trial that he and the company’s CEO agreed to provide political donations in exchange for …
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10/11/22
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President Joe Biden is reevaluating the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. That's after the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance of oil-producing nations announced it would cut oil production and as …
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By AAMER MADHANI
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10/11/22
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More families who are offered expensive health insurance premiums from their employers will get a discount if they sign up instead for coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace this fall. …
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10/11/22
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Credit scores are complicated, so the process of improving them can look different for everyone. Experts have some tips for how you can get started if you need to improve your credit score. The first …
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By ADRIANA MORGA
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10/11/22
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Your credit score affects whether you can get a credit card, rent an apartment, buy a house, start a business, or even get a cell phone contract. A low credit score can limit your choice of loans or …
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By ADRIANA MORGA
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10/11/22
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The U.S. Department of Labor is publishing a new proposal on how workers should be classified saying that thousands of people have been incorrectly labeled as contractors rather than employees, …
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
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10/11/22
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Honda says it will build a $3.5 billion joint-venture battery factory in rural southern Ohio and hire 2,200 people to staff it as it starts to turn the state into its North American electric vehicle …
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By TOM KRISHER and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON
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10/11/22
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Whenever the president travels, a special bullet-resistant lectern called the “blue goose" typically goes with him. Lately, President Joe Biden is rendering it all but obsolete as he increasingly …
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By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG
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10/11/22
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French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced a decision to requisition workers operating petrol depots of the ExxonMobil’s French branch Esso and threatened to do the same for those of Total …
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10/11/22
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg says it would be “a mistake” for Germany to switch off its nuclear power plants if that means burning more planet-heating coal. The German government is debating …
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10/11/22
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