AP National Business

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Professional sports teams and gambling companies in the U.S. are increasingly bringing sportsbooks to the game, opening betting facilities in or near stadiums. It might seem counterintuitive to spend millions on brick-and-mortar retail outlets when over 80% of U.S. sports betting is done via phone

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF’s two largest unions are raising concerns about a new attendance policy that went into effect at the railroad Tuesday. That’s because they say it penalizes employees for missing work for any reason and encourages sick employees to report for duty. The unions appealed to

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Groups representing about 100,000 ride-share drivers and food delivery workers in and near New York City have formed a coalition called Justice for App Workers. They made the announcement Tuesday and are pressing for protections including better wages, health care and the right to unionize.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This past weekend’s Janet Jackson documentary was the most popular non-fiction show on Lifetime since its “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary three years ago. The four-part series rolled out over two nights last weekend. The Nielsen company said roughly 4 million people watched on live television,

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks had a strong holiday season in the U.S. but weaker sales in China as its ended the second year of the pandemic. U.S. same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, were up 18% over the October-December period a year ago. The Seattle-based coffee giant

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The Jewish Federations of North America, or JFNA, is working to bolster security across Jewish communities. The umbrella organization and local federations are aiming to raise $126 million over three years to ensure all 146 communities where Jewish federations are located have security hubs. Only 45 currently have such

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer The Department of Interior is spending $1.15 billion to create jobs across the United States by capping abandoned oil and gas wells in communities plagued for decades by air and water pollution from wells. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says the funding will help the country “confront the legacy pollution

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google’s digital advertising empire turned in another strong performance during the holiday shopping season, propelling a 36% increase in its corporate parent’s profit during the final three months of 2021. The results announced Tuesday underscore how technology giants have adapted to become even more

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country is speeding up the rollout of a “new generation” of missile defense technology to help protect the country from rocket attacks. Naftali Bennett told a security conference Tuesday that the new system will be unveiled within a year in

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the U.S. and its allies of ignoring Russia’s top security demands but says Moscow is willing to talk more to ease tensions over Ukraine. The comments on Tuesday were his first on the standoff in more than a

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors increased its net income 56% last year, helped by higher prices for its vehicles that were made scarce by a global shortage of computer chips. The Detroit automaker said Tuesday that it made $10.02 billion for the full year. And it predicted record pretax

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: UPS, Gannett rise; AT&T, Pitney Bowes fall.

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to the Fed’s influential Board of

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday, getting February off to a decent start after a miserable January. The S&P 500 added 0.7%, as did the Nasdaq composite. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8%. Nearly all of the gains came in the last hour

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors. A federal court filing Tuesday in Cleveland describes $590 million in settlements with the New Jersey-based drugmaker along with distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. Some tribes

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation already have voiced strong opposition to building a multibillion-dollar facility that would store tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants. Now, the Legislature is considering a bill that supporters say would keep

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A hydrogen fuel cell and transportation company says it plans to move its global headquarters from California to Ohio. Hyperion Companies Inc. announced Tuesday it would also locate its research and development center and manufacturing operations in Columbus. Hyperion in a statement says it will invest nearly

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country is speeding up the rollout of a “new generation” of missile defense technology to help protect the country from rocket attacks. Naftali Bennett told a security conference Tuesday that the new system will be unveiled within a year in

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The airline that flew a load of monkeys to the U.S. who were later involved in a highway wreck says it will stop this shipments this month. Kenya Airways says it will not renew its contract with the monkey provider, whom it did not identify. The airline flew 100

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An Iran-flagged supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of condensate has docked at a Venezuelan port. An independent oil tanker tracking firm says the Starla docked Monday in a seaport in northeastern Venezuela. It’s the first condensate shipment of the year from Iran to