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Lawmakers look to extend waivers under disaster declaration

By Marc Levy Jun. 09, 2021 05:43 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature appeared Wednesday to back off a wholesale end to the governor’s pandemic disaster...

FILE - In this April 29, 2020 file photo, a shopper wears a mask as she looks over meat products at a grocery store in Dallas.   Wholesale prices rose a higher-than-expected 0.6% in April, driven by a sharp rise in food costs.   The increase, reported Thursday, May 13, 2021,  by the Labor Department, followed a sizable 1% advance in March.(AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Big 0.6% April wholesale price jump catches many off guard

By Martin Crutsinger May. 13, 2021 09:05 AM EDT

Tray Ragland, left, and Kim Hickerson of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union hold signs outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. For Amazon, a successful effort could motivate other workers to organize. But a contract could take years, and Amazon has a history of crushing labor organizing. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
Amazon faces biggest union push in its history

By Joseph Pisani Feb. 12, 2021 01:00 AM EST

FILE - This June 25, 2019, file photo shows a sign outside a Walgreens Pharmacy in Pittsburgh.  On Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, Walgreens Boots Alliance lost $308 million in its first fiscal quarter due to a big charge tied to its ownership stake in the drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen. The drugstore chain also saw COVID-19 continue to eat away at its business, particularly in the United Kingdom, but the company’s overall performance topped Wall Street expectations.   (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Walgreens tops fiscal 1Q forecasts as it fights pandemic hit

By Tom Murphy Jan. 07, 2021 08:30 AM EST

FILE - This June 25, 2019, file photo shows the sign outside a Walgreens Pharmacy in Pittsburgh. Walgreens Boots Alliance will sell its pharmaceutical wholesaler business to AmerisourceBergen in $6.5 billion cash and stock deal. The drugstore chain says the deal will let it invest in and focus on its retail business, which has been hurt by sales declines during the COVID-19 pandemic.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Walgreens to sell drug wholesale business for $6.5B

By Tom Murphy Jan. 06, 2021 08:06 AM EST

Denver Broncos quarterback Drew Lock (3) throws under pressure from Los Angeles Chargers defensive tackle Justin Jones during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Broncos staying the course in 2021 after another bad year

By Arnie Stapleton Jan. 01, 2021 05:57 PM EST

Birdia Williams turns on her ceiling fan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, to help cool the house she and her husband, John Williams, purchased 23 years earlier in Itta Bena, Miss., a few blocks from what was then a busy downtown. Now, the couple, living on a fix income as retirees, constantly worry on how to budget to compensate for what they believe are high electric bills from the city-run and owned utility. Because of a long standing debt with the wholesale electrical provider, the Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi, the city is facing complete disconnection on Dec. 1. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi city won't lose lights after threat over debt

By Leah Willingham Oct. 30, 2020 01:55 PM EDT

Signs for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump mark neighboring property in a middle-class neighborhood of Oshkosh, the hub of swing-voting Winnebago County Wis. Trump’s standing with white, working class voters has proven resilient through federal investigations, impeachment and countless episodes of chaotic governing. But if those issues were too distant — centered on complicated foreign entanglements — reports about his tax avoidance might have had the potential to hit closer to home during a time of economic upheaval. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)
Denying, defending and numb: Voters not moved by Trump taxes

By Thomas Beaumont Oct. 02, 2020 12:55 AM EDT

Egg producer gouged prices when pandemic hit, lawsuit says

Aug. 11, 2020 01:31 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country’s largest egg producers illegally inflated prices when the pandemic hit New York, taking in $4 million as it charged up to...

A shopper walks inside the Mercabal wholesale market in Havana, Cuba, Friday, July 31, 2020. The government is letting private businesses buy wholesale for the first time. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Economy tanking, Cuba launches some long-delayed reforms

By Andrea Rodríguez Aug. 06, 2020 10:47 PM EDT

Pennsylvania lawmakers wrestle anew with major gambling bill

By Marc Levy Jun. 23, 2020 04:58 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Top Republicans in Pennsylvania's state Senate are pressing sweeping gambling legislation that would allow slot machine-like terminals...

Regulators back off major price increase for liquor in Iowa

By Ryan J. Foley Jun. 11, 2020 06:31 PM EDT
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The government agency that regulates liquor sales in Iowa said Thursday it has backed off a major price increase for some products that...

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans at their weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Standing behind Trump is Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Trump could violate Ford face mask requirement on plant tour

By Tom Krisher And David Eggert May. 19, 2020 06:26 PM EDT

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to board Air Force One prior to departing Washington en route to Allentown, Pa., at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, May 14, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)
Trump says he'll replenish stockpile for future pandemics

By Jill Colvin And Darlene Superville May. 15, 2020 12:04 AM EDT

People line the side of the road waiting for the motorcade with President Donald Trump to drive past on Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Trump says he'll replenish stockpile for future pandemics

By Jill Colvin And Darlene Superville May. 14, 2020 09:50 AM EDT

Men hawking face shields ride past on their bicycles in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. The mayor of Bogota ordered several areas of the capital to stay under maximum quarantine due to the high number of people infected by the new coronavirus in the area. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
The Latest: China’s foreign minister lashes out

By The Associated Press May. 14, 2020 03:54 AM EDT

Richard Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, arrives for a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing to discuss protecting scientific integrity in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Thursday, May 14, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Whistleblower: US still lacks virus plan, Americans at risk

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar And Richard Lardner May. 14, 2020 12:10 AM EDT

Secretary of state encourages Minnesotans to vote by mail

By Steve Karnowski May. 13, 2020 05:36 PM EDT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon didn't get his wish for a wholesale switch to mail-in balloting to make the upcoming elections...

In this photo taken Tuesday April 7, 2020, a person wearing a face mask pedals down the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Monterey, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 the state will spend nearly $1 billion to purchase up to 200 million masks per month to boost the state's stockpile of protective equipment during the COVID-19 outbreak and could act as a supplier to other Western states. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
California to buy 200 million masks a month amid outbreak

By Kathleen Ronayne And Adam Beam Apr. 08, 2020 01:20 PM EDT

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