Orders for big-ticket US manufactured goods up weak 0.4%
WASHINGTON — Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods increased just 0.4% in August following a much larger gain in the previous month. The…
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Justice Department seeks immediate ban on WeChat in US
NEW YORK — The Justice Department is seeking an immediate ban on downloads of WeChat in Apple and Google app stores, saying the Chinese-owned messaging…
EU Commission appeals after losing Apple $15 billion tax case
LONDON — The European Commission said Friday it is appealing a court decision that Apple doesn’t have to repay 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in…
Facebook critics start rival, independent ‘oversight board’
OAKLAND, Calif. — A group of prominent Facebook critics, including one of the social network’s early investors and a journalist facing jail time in the…
As positivity rate climbs, Jo Daviess County officials, business owners worry about potential restrictions
ELIZABETH, Ill. — When Jacky Jacobs reopened Cajun Jack’s Bar & Grill in Elizabeth in May, it took a while before the business returned to…
Fraud, backlogs disrupt US unemployment benefit payments
WASHINGTON — Many American workers applying for unemployment benefits after being thrown out of a job by the coronavirus face a new complication: States’ efforts…
Iowa fines beef plant $957 after huge coronavirus outbreak
IOWA CITY — Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce — a…
Evel Knievel’s son suing Disney over ‘Toy Story 4’ character
LAS VEGAS — Evel Knievel’s son is on a collision course with the Walt Disney Co. and Pixar over a movie daredevil character named Duke…
Mnuchin and Powell back jobless aid and small business loans
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said today that the government’s top priorities in any new economic relief package…
IPOs head for banner year on stock market’s strength
Companies that cater to the “new normal” of working and shopping from home are rushing to go public. 2020 could turn out to be the…