BEIJING – China’s growing restrictions over the Covid-19 virus have caused further disruptions to global supply chains of consumer electronics, auto parts and other goods. A growing number of Chinese cities are requiring truck drivers to take daily Covid PCR tests before they are allowed to cross municipal borders or quarantine drivers believed to be …
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JetBlue Airways has offered to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.6 billion, throwing a key to Spirit’s plan to merge with Frontier Airlines and create a budget behemoth. Spirit and Frontier, the two budget airlines, agreed in February to merge in a deal that the two companies said would save consumers about $1 billion annually. Spirit …
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, reached out to Twitter CEO Paraj Agrawal a few weeks ago through a friendly interview. Musk was buying stock in the social media company, and he was captured by Mr. Musk, and wanted to discuss how to improve Twitter. Mr. Musk had ideas for reshaping the social networks that …
A day after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico, in the latest breakdown in a permanently troubled electrical grid, nearly half a million customers were kept in the dark Thursday night. Power has been slowly restored, but more than 470,000 consumers remain without electricity, out of more than 1.4 million, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks …
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Last year, Russia supplied more than half of the natural gas and about a third of all the oil that Germany burned to heat homes and power plants and fuel cars, buses and trucks. Almost half of Germany’s imports of coal, which is essential for steelmaking, came from Russia. Russian gas, oil and coal are …
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Illusion of safety? Firearms advocates are calling today for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and regulate the firearms industry as with tobacco, alleging that gun manufacturers use misleading advertising practices. The petition, which DealBook is the first to file, is the latest attack aimed at the marketing tactics of an industry that has been …
WASHINGTON – The Mets are different from 2016, when they last reached the playoffs. The lists are inevitably changing, but the overhaul of the Metz is going much deeper. They have, to name a few important figures, a new manager, a new general manager and a new team owner – the last of this group, …
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The British government on Thursday unveiled its plan to increase the country’s energy independence as European countries try to quickly reduce energy imports from Russia due to the war in Ukraine. A cornerstone of Britain’s plan is to increase nuclear capacity, with goals to deliver up to eight reactors this decade. Under the Energy Security …
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Two black NFL coaches have joined a lawsuit filed in February by Brian Flores, a former Miami Dolphins head coach, who accused the league and its 32 teams of discriminating against African Americans when hiring. Steve Wilkes, who was fired after one season as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, and Ray Horton, a longtime …
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The assets of “Fifty Shades of Gray” are perhaps more widely known than those of BP Capital or Koch Industries. “Fifty Shades” originated from the mind of Erica Mitchell, an English television executive who wrote in 2009 a fictionalized sequel to Stephanie Meyer’s romantic vampire series “Twilight” under the name Snowqueens Icedragon. When the work …
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