LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO’s longtime chief executive is leaving the cable channel, less than a year after AT&T acquired HBO’s parent company. In a memo to HBO staffers Thursday, Richard Plepler said it was the right...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says that the economy is in a “good place” with low inflation and maximum employment. But he says not every American has enjoyed the benefits of the long...
Read MoreLAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino magnate and GOP donor Sheldon Adelson is not in good health and has not been at his company’s offices in Las Vegas since around Christmas Day. Adelson’s poor health was revealed earlier this...
Read MoreMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state prosecutor has sent letters threatening to charge media organizations and dozens of journalists with breaching a gag order that banned reporting of Cardinal George Pell’s...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — A group made up of business leaders, elected officials and others is sending an open letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos urging him to reconsider the decision to abandon plans for a headquarters in New York City. The...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Times reports that President Donald Trump last year ordered officials to grant a top-secret security clearance to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Kushner was granted a security clearance last May...
Read MoreSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla is shifting all of its sales from stores to the internet, saying the move is needed to cut costs so it can sell the mass-market Model 3 for a starting price of $35,000. The Palo Alto, California,...
Read MoreSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s state-run gas network operator Bulgartransgaz is relaunching a 1.4 billion euro ($1.6 billion) tender to expand the country’s gas transport system from Turkey to Serbia. The company...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: J.C. Penney Co., up 28 cents to $1.52 The department store reported weak holiday sales results and will close more stores, but the results still beat...
Read MoreDETROIT (AP) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles this week announced a $4.5 billion investment that would bring 6,500 new manufacturing jobs to Detroit and its suburbs and, nearly two years before the first new vehicles will even roll...
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