WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve policymakers will be debating whether stubborn inflation or slower hiring is the bigger problem for the economy as they prepare for an annual conference in Jackson, Wyoming, next week and a crucial policy meeting in September. Weak job gains since April have led some officials to support a rate cut.…… MORE
Shares of UnitedHealth Group are surging before the market open Friday as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it recently purchased shares of the beleaguered insurer. Berkshire Hathaway bought around 5 million shares of UnitedHealth last quarter, according to a regulatory filing. The stock was valued at about $1.57 billion. (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.…… MORE
TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada has suspended plans to restart operations after the union representing 10,000 flight attendants decided to defy a return-to-work order. The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered staff back by Sunday afternoon, but the union refused, calling the order unconstitutional. Air Canada now plans to resume flights Monday evening. The shutdown, which…… MORE
The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies to ramp up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots now in Mexico from damaging the American cattle industry. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Friday that the U.S. hopes to be producing and releasing sterile male New…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS: UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT VOLODIMIR ZELENSKYY MEETS AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AS SEVERAL EUROPEAN UNION LEADERS FLY IN TO OFFER SUPPORT, AS A DEAL IS DISCUSSED IN HOPES OF PEACE BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA. ZELENSKKYY AT PUBLICATION WAS MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE WHITE HOUSE. UPDATES 24/7 ON WBAP.… MORE