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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama announced new steps Friday to help curb gun violence, including by identifying the requirements that “smart guns” would have to meet… Read more »
Category: Business
McDonald’s testing McNugget recipe without preservatives
(NEW YORK, AP) — McDonald’s says it is testing Chicken McNuggets with no artificial preservatives as it works to revive its U.S. business. The world’s biggest hamburger chain says it began testing… Read more »
H&R Block cuts 250 jobs, citing disappointing tax season
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — H&R Block says it’s laying off 250 workers, citing a disappointing tax season. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1Qz7yQQ ) reports the downsizing announced Tuesday by the… Read more »
FBI head suggests agency paid more than $1M to access iPhone
(WASHINGTON, AP) — FBI Director James Comey has hinted that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. At… Read more »
Dutch court quashes $50 billion Yukos shareholders’ award
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press (THE HAGUE, Netherlands, AP) — A Dutch court on Wednesday quashed a $50 billion award Russia had been ordered to pay the former majority shareholders of Yukos,… Read more »
Dutch police crack encrypted communications network
(THE HAGUE, Netherlands, AP) — Dutch police and prosecutors say they have taken down an encrypted communications network believed to have been used by criminals in the Netherlands and possibly overseas. Prosecutors… Read more »
US stocks slip as oil prices skid ahead of OPEC meeting
By MARLEY JAY Associated Press (NEW YORK, AP) — U.S. stocks are taking small losses Friday morning as energy companies are slipping with the price of oil. Citigroup became the latest bank… Read more »
Obama backs effort to give consumers options on cable boxes
By KEVIN FREKING Asssociated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama threw his weight Friday behind an effort to give consumers more choice when it comes to the cable boxes that control… Read more »
EU approves anti-terror plan to collect air passenger info
By LORNE COOK Associated Press (BRUSSELS, AP) — European Union lawmakers approved Thursday a scheme to share airline passenger information that nations hope to use to track foreign fighters travelling to and… Read more »
Regulators: 5 big banks get failing grades for crisis plans
By MARCY GORDON Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Federal regulators say five of the biggest banks in the U.S. failed to develop adequate plans for how they might reshape themselves in case… Read more »
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