One Championship says it has closed a $166 million financing round led by Sequoia Capital, pushing the Asian mixed martial arts promotion’s total capital base past $250 million. The Singapore-based promotion announced its...
Read MoreBEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks declined Monday after China injected extra money into its cooling economy. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 2.8 percent to 2,741.63 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 lost 1.4...
Read MoreCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A plan to project a horse racing advertisement on the famed sails of the Sydney Opera House is dividing Australians. The New South Wales state government stepped in to allow the advertisement to be...
Read MoreSTOCKHOLM (AP) — The award that concludes this year’s series of Nobel prizes came about seven decades after the others. When Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the prizes in his will, economics wasn’t one...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Facing pivotal November elections, President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the history of African-American voting and exaggerating his influence in boosting income and controlling prescription drug prices. He...
Read MoreAre America’s employers at risk of running out of skilled people to hire? The U.S. economy has become a seemingly perpetual job-generating machine, having steadily added workers for nearly eight years. Even with the...
Read MoreFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Flagstaff area is seeing a bountiful apple harvest months after avoiding its usual late spring frost. That means late-season bloomers such as apples are more likely to survive and produce fruit,...
Read MoreHONOLULU (AP) — Oahu’s median price for a single-family home hit a record $812,500 last month, a Honolulu Board of Realtors report said. The price is a 6.9 percent increase from the median price in September 2017 and a...
Read MoreCAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has spiked 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, costing $2.97. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says that’s 41 cents a...
Read MoreFLINT, Mich. (AP) — Residents and businesses affected by the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint are asking a judge to reinstate Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and other Michigan officials as defendants in a class-action...
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