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Maine shouldn’t take a backseat to Alaska in plans for the Arctic
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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July 22, 2025
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Darryl W. Lyon of Bangor is a retired lieutenant colonel who is...
South Korea economy likely returned to growth in Q2: Reuters Poll
WTVB - Michigan
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By Rahul Trivedi BENGALURU (Reuters) -South Korea’s economy likely returned to growth last quarter, supported by a modest rebound in exports and a gradual recovery in domestic demand, a Reuters poll of economists found. After contracting 0.2% in...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 8:44 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...
Stimulus payments August 2025: Which states are expecting deposits throughout the month?
MARCA
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July 26, 2025
As August is about to begin, people in various US states should be aware of the next stimulus payment that will provide them with financial support to help with household expenses during the holiday season. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cuts by Congress: What's at Stake
Westword - Colorado
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July 19, 2025
By narrow margins, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives just approved a law that claws back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Once President Donald Trump signs it into law, the $9 billion rescissions package...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 6:55 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...
Downtown Anchorage shooting that left 23-year-old man dead began with bar fight, police say
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Anchorage police investigate an early morning shooting outside The Gaslight on Fourth Avenue on Sunday, July 20, 2025. (Bill Roth / ADN) Anchorage police say a downtown shooting early Sunday began with an altercation in The Gaslight and ended with...
US Stock Market: S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite hit fresh highs, Dow Jones drops
The Economic Times
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July 21, 2025
US stock market's broad-based index S&P 500 mustered a 0.1 percent gain to 6,305.60, a fresh record. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index also ended at a record, winning 0.4 percent to 20,974.17, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped less...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 6:29 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...
‘Significant’ outage at Alaska Airlines not a security incident, but a hardware breakdown
Network World
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July 22, 2025
The airline told Network World that when the critical piece of what it described as “third-party multi-redundant hardware” failed unexpectedly, “it impacted several of our key systems that enable us to run various operations.” The company is...
World News | Looming over Two Cases Threatening Musk's Car Company is a Single Question: Can He Be Trusted?
Latestly
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July 22, 2025
Miami, Jul 22 (AP) Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts Monday, raising a question about the billionaire that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on US roads or throw up a major roadblock: Can this wildly successful...
4 Senators Visit Canada Ahead of Trade Deadline
KVOR - Colorado
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July 21, 2025
Four U.S. senators recently met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline to strike a Canada-U.S. trade and security deal, Politico reported. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.; and...
Summer military drone trials in Alaska reveal shortcomings for modernizing warfare
Must Read Alaska
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July 21, 2025
While fighter jets roared overhead during the annual Red Flag exercises at Eielson Air Force Base in late June, a quieter and far less known military trial was underway 20 miles away on a training range near Fort Wainwright, where the Pentagon’s...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 4:18 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...
M&A Report: Crescent Bank exits auto lending in major deal
New Orleans City Business - Louisiana
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July 21, 2025
New Orleans-based Crescent Bank has agreed to sell its auto financing division to Arra Finance. The deal, expected to close in the third quarter of 2025, will add Crescent’s $815 million auto loan portfolio, along with its servicing tech, fraud...
Democrats have their challenger for Sen. Dan Sullivan — and she works for an Alaska newspaper
Must Read Alaska
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July 21, 2025
Alaska Democrats appear to have found their challenger in the 2026 US Senate race. Ann Diener, a Democrat and newspaper sales executive at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, filed to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who has served...
Anchorage superintendent doubles down on budget drama, but weaves and dodges on actual layoffs
Must Read Alaska
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July 19, 2025
Anchorage School District Superintendent Dr. Jharrett Bryantt issued a second high-drama letter to families and staff on Friday, continuing to sound alarm bells over budget cuts but offering little accountability for his own role in spreading...
Whale Watching, Bubbles, Honeypots And Making Bank On Juniors - John Rubino & Rick Mills
MENAFN
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July 21, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Ideas) Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd : John, about the Big Beautiful Bill, there's so much talk about increasing the debt and the deficit and there's talk about the tax cuts for people, especially the wealthy,...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 2:25 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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More Americans shift money from checking and savings to accounts with investment income, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that...
US: Alaska Airlines Restores Operations After Equipment Failure at Data Centre Grounds All Planes
Latestly
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July 21, 2025
New York, July 21: Alaska Airlines has resumed flights after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its planes for approximately three hours, but the effects will linger into Monday, the company announced. The...