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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has gotten much hotter and more dangerous. The first big climate negotiations were in 1992. The world has warmed more in the past 29 years than in the previous 110

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex will begin fining shipping companies if they let cargo containers stack up as the nation’s busiest twin harbors deal with an unprecedented backlog of vessels. The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions voted Friday to implement a joint program that sets time limits on

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese company that sold millions of faulty dehumidifiers to U.S. customers will pay $91 million for failing to tell regulators the devices could overheat and catch fire. The U.S. attorney’s office announced Friday that Gree Electric Appliances and its Hong Kong subsidiary submitted to an agreement filed in Los Angeles

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have asked a judge to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin serving a 2 1/2-year prison term. The request Friday comes a year after Avenatti was convicted of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike. Later Friday, Avenatti’s lawyers responded

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the four retail pharmacy companies on trial for their alleged roles in fostering an opioid crisis in two Ohio counties announced Friday it had settled a lawsuit with 10 government entities in the state. The settlement announced Friday by Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle includes Ohio’s Lake

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tourism officials from Oregon’s largest city are calling Portland’s reputation “badly damaged” by months of destructive protests, a homeless crisis and a record year for homicides. Travel Portland is the main tourism promotor for the city and presented data to elected city officials this

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas lease sales on a national scale as the Biden administration steps up efforts to address climate change. The announcement Friday came as officials released a report saying fossil fuel

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package into law. Fallout was brutal Friday after Biden’s announcement of a $1.75 trillion framework, chiseled back from an initial $3.5 trillion plan, still

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Apple, Amazon fall; US Steel, Newell rise

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are ending higher Friday as Wall Street closed out a milestone-setting week. Health care, communication services and technology companies rose. The three major indexes all set records: The S&P 500 rose 0.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.3% and Nasdaq closed 0.3%

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks edged lower in choppy trading Friday afternoon, shedding modest early gains as Wall Street closed out a milestone-setting week. Decliners outnumbered gainers in the S&P 500 index, with real estate stocks, banks and a mix of companies that rely on consumer spending accounting for

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency authorized the kid-size doses on Friday. But there’s one more regulatory hurdle. Next week, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has renewed Britain’s threat to break from part of the Brexit divorce deal it signed with the European Union unless differences over Northern Ireland trade are resolved. The U.K. has threatened to trigger an emergency break clause in the deal that lets either

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says petroleum industry regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas lease sales on a national scale. The announcement came as officials released a report saying fossil fuel extraction from federal lands produced more than 1

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to calm stormy waters over fishing with France on Friday as he flew to Rome for a G-20 summit, where he is due to meet French President Emmanuel Macron. France has threatened  to block British boats and tighten checks

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks edged higher in choppy trading on Wall Street Friday, on pace to close out a milestone-setting week with modest gains as investors review the latest round of corporate earnings. Health care, technology and communication services companies helped lift the market after a wobbly start.

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have asked a judge to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin serving a 2 1/2-year prison term. The request comes a year after Avenatti was convicted of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike. Avenatti gained a measure of fame

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state appeals court says Louisiana’s largest health system can’t fire or otherwise discipline employees who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 until the mandate’s legality is decided. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled one day before Ochsner Health’s Friday deadline. A state district judge