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Farmworker wage complaints in WA caught in state agency backlog, report finds
Over half of farmworker wage complaints Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries received last year went un…
Man guilty of giving escort employer credit card sentenced
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois man who claims his 2012 divorce prompted him to go on a binge that included alcohol, prostitutes and giving a woman his corporate credit card used to finance an opulent lifestyle and rack…
Mexico opens anti-monopoly probe amid oxygen price rise
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly commission said Thursday it looking into possible price-fixing or monopolistic practices in the market for medical oxygen, after pharmacies reported a spike in prices and d…
Enbridge contractor vessels may have bumped pipeline support
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Recent damage that prompted the temporary shutdown of an Enbridge oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes may have been done by vessels working for the company, accordin…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak slams YouTube for scam videos
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a legal attack against Google's YouTube video site for allowing con artists to use him as a pawn in a Bitcoin scam believed to have heisted milli…
White House drops payroll tax cut after GOP allies object
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday reluctantly dropped his bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes as Republicans stumbled anew in efforts to unite around a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package to…
S&P 500 has biggest loss in nearly 4 weeks as tech stumbles
NEW YORK (AP) — Slumping stocks across most of Wall Street sent the S&P 500 to its worst loss in nearly four weeks on Thursday, undercut by a report showing layoffs are picking up across the country with coronaviru…
How major US stock indexes fared Thursday
Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Thursday, undercut in part by a discouraging report showing that layoffs are picking up across the country along with confirmed new coronavirus cases.
Whirlpool, Meritage rise; Kinder Morgan, Union Pacific fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Thursday:
Southwest, American tighten mask rules; Delta widens testing
DALLAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines will provide at-home coronavirus tests for some employees, while Southwest and American will tighten their rules on face masks by ending exceptions for medical reasons.
Ohio governor reverses course, calls to repeal energy law
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Mike DeWine reversed course on Thursday and called for a nuclear bailout energy law to be repealed and replaced in the wake of a $60 million state bribery scandal implicating one of Ohio'…
Review fast tracked for Nevada vanadium mine, 1st in the US
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Invoking President Trump’s executive order streamlining environmental reviews of projects critical to U.S. security, federal land managers have launched an expedited permitting process for the fir…
Jobless claims rise as cutoff of extra $600 benefit nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation got another dose of bad economic news Thursday as the number of laid-off workers seeking jobless benefits rose for the first time since late March, intensifying concerns the resurgent c…
EU negotiator cites 'objective risk' of no post-Brexit deal
LONDON (AP) — British and European Union negotiators failed to agree on underlying principles in the latest round of talks on post-Brexit trade between the bloc and its one-time member, again raising concerns about…
Michigan newspaper chain will stop publishing mug shots
DETROIT (AP) — A chain of eight Michigan newspapers will stop publishing mug shots of people charged with crimes as it seeks to break negative judgments, especially in cases involving minorities, a senior editor sa…
Ex-utility exec pleads guilty to $1B fraud in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nearly three years after leading a failed project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, an executive in charge of the construction pleaded guilty Thursday to taking more than $1 bil…