Business Stories from January 20, 2016 (Change date)
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UberX to pick up at Los Angeles International AirportJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Passengers arriving at Los Angeles International Airport will be allowed to leave in an UberX car starting Thursday morning. LAX was a notable holdout...
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Supreme Court rules against business in class-action caseJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says a business cannot end a class-action lawsuit by offering the person who first sued everything that was asked for. The 6-3 ruling...
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Feds probe complaints that Ford Focus doors won't latchJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into complaints that doors won't latch properly on about 400,000 Ford Focus compact cars, includi...
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Pot states take fresh look at out-of-state investmentJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - DENVER (AP) - States that have legalized pot are taking a fresh look at making it easier for out-of-state investors to get in the weed business, saying the industry's on...
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Dow Chemical adds paid weeks to parental leave benefitJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - Dow Chemical is fattening the paid leave it gives employees after the birth of a child as it becomes the latest major U.S. employer to rethink how it treats parents. The...
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UN chief alarmed at prospect of rising global unemploymentJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman said Wednesday that projections for rising global unemployment over the next two years are "alarming" and...
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Kentucky coal death is nation's 3rd fatal in new yearJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A coal miner in western Kentucky died after being pinned against a wall by a mobile digging machine in an underground mine, the first coal mining ...
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2nd defendant, US citizen, pleads guilty in UN bribery caseJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. citizen on Wednesday became the second person to plead guilty in connection with a bribery scandal at the United Nations, tearfully admitting that...
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Low oil complicates struggle to raise eurozone inflationJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Low oil prices are complicating life for the European Central Bank in its struggle to push up worrisome low inflation in the 19 nations that us...
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Viacom slashes exec pay amid lawsuit over Redstone's healthJan 20, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Viacom Inc. on Wednesday pre-released details about executive pay that show an 85 percent drop in compensation for its ailing 92-year-old executive ch...