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By DAVID SHARP, KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to drop Friday evening as a major winter storm turned already slippery roads and sidewalks into ice-covered hazards. The storm that already cut electric power to about 350,000 homes and businesses from Texas

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former executive director of a surgical center who helped her physician husband bilk insurance companies of $44 million for cosmetic procedures billed as “medically necessary” has pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Linda Morrow also pleaded guilty to contempt for fleeing the country after she

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the western Colorado ranch owned by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at first asked her where the billionaire’s daughters were and later went on rants about Bloomberg, saying he wanted to “make an international scene”

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the White House were bracing for bad economic news. But instead they got a pleasant surprise Friday — that the U.S. economy had powered through the omicron wave of the coronavirus and posted 467,000 new jobs in January. The figures showed just how

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the White House were bracing for bad economic news. But instead they got a pleasant surprise on Friday — that the U.S. economy had powered through the omicron wave of the coronavirus and posted 467,000 new jobs in January. The figures showed just

By DAVID SHARP, KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to drop Friday evening as a major winter storm turned already slippery roads and sidewalks into ice-covered hazards. The storm that already cut electric power to about 350,000 homes and businesses from Texas

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked, with data stolen from journalists and other employees. The cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion, Mandiant, says Chinese intelligence-gathering is believed to be behind the operation. The Journal reported that people briefed on

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has continued its endorsement of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. adults. The decision will have little practical effect. Tens of millions of Americans have already gotten Moderna shots, following an emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Amazon, Snap rise; Ford, Clorox fall.

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked, with data stolen from journalists and other employees. The cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion, Mandiant, says Chinese intelligence-gathering is believed to be behind the operation. The Journal reported that people briefed on

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California gas utility must pay a nearly $10 million fine and reimburse customers for money it improperly spent related to the development of more energy efficient building codes. The penalties that Southern California Gas Co. faces were issued Thursday by the California Public Utilities

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fine art isn’t just nice to look at. It’s also attractive to criminals trying to launder money, finance terrorism and trade illegal drugs and arms. And the Treasury Department wants art dealers and financiers to do something about that. The agency issued a report Friday recommending that

MEEKER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the alleged kidnapping of a woman who works at a Colorado ranch owned by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. They say 48-year-old Joseph Beecher took the woman from the ranch at gunpoint Wednesday and then to several places in the Denver area before going to neighboring

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will begin offering limited Saturday walk-in help for taxpayers this tax season. Walk-in visits will be offered at 35 tax assistance centers around the country beginning the weekend of Feb. 12. Other Saturday help days will be March 12, April 9 and May 14. This

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration says the mineral rights under the original Missouri River riverbed belong to a North Dakota tribal nation. The 68-page memorandum posted Friday by the U.S. Department of Interior is contrary to a May 2020 Trump administration opinion concluding that

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal advisory panel has voted to continue to endorse Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. adults. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to continue to recommend the two-dose primary series. The decision will have little practical effect. Tens of millions of Americans have

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are edging higher and Treasury yields are jumping Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The S&P 500 was 0.9% higher after the Labor Department said employers added

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The message the U.S. jobs report sent Friday was a surprising one: Despite a surge in viral cases in January, the labor market is so healthy that employers kept hiring last month at a pace that far surpassed anyone’s expectations. Before Friday, the widespread view was

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing lasers at airplanes and helicopters is becoming a bigger problem. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that pilots reported a record 9,723 laser strikes last year. That’s a a 41% increase over the year before. Lasers aimed at aircraft have been a safety concern for more than a decade despite jail