How NAFTA 2.0 Will Shake Up Business as Usual
WASHINGTON (AP) — American dairy farmers get more access to the Canadian market. U.S. drug companies can fend off generic competition for a few more years. Automakers are under pressure to build more cars where workers earn decent wages. The North American trade agreement hammered out late Sunday between the United States and Canada, following…
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New California Internet Neutrality Law Sparks US Lawsuit
SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved the nation's strongest net neutrality law, prompting an immediate lawsuit by the Trump administration and opening the next phase in the battle over regulating the internet. Advocates of net neutrality hope California's law, which Brown signed Sunday to stop internet providers from favoring certain content…
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James Allison, Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel for Cancer Research
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Researchers from the United States and Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that help the body marshal its cellular troops to attack invading cancers. One cancer doctor said "an untold number of lives ... have been saved by the science that they pioneered." James Allison of the…
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GE, Seeking Path Through its 3rd Century, Ousts CEO
BOSTON, MA (AP) — After just over a year and declines on several fronts at General Electric, John Flannery has been ousted as the leader of the century-old company. Flannery took over for longtime CEO and Chairman Jeff Immelt in August 2017 with the company trying to re-establish its industrial roots, albeit a high-tech version…
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Las Vegas Victims Honored on 1st Anniversary of Shooting
By KEN RITTER , Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A somber sunrise remembrance ceremony started Monday in Las Vegas with survivors, families of victims, first-responders and elected officials remembering the lives lost when one year ago when a gunman opened fire on a crowd attending an outdoor country music concert in the deadliest mass shooting…
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