As Southern California gas prices top $6 a gallon, dealerships are scrambling to keep hybrids, electric vehicles and other fuel-efficient cars in stock. Nowhere is the dilemma more apparent than at Longo Toyota. “We’ve had more than 1,000 customers place orders for the Sienna hybrid minivan,” said Doug Eroh, the El Monte dealership’s general manager.…
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE Stocks shifted between small gains and losses in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday as investors wrapped up a bumpy week with more uncertainty about where to go next. The S&P 500 index fell 0.1% as of 12:26 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 18 points, or 0.1%, to…
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Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who earlier this month punched an employee inside the Anaheim Central Library and walked out, leaving the second man unconscious on the floor, authorities said. Surveillance video from the library, released by police, shows the employee walking along when the suspect punches him in…
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By NEBI QENA and ANDREA ROSA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week on a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war’s deadliest known attack on civilians yet. The bloodshed fueled allegations Moscow is…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE RZESZOW, Poland (AP) — Just miles from Ukraine, President Joe Biden saluted Poland on Friday for giving refuge to more than 2 million refugees who have fled Russia’s invasion,; then he met with humanitarian experts on the ground about what will be needed to mitigate the growing suffering. Biden…
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FILE – In this 1911 file photo provided by the National Archives, labor union members gather to protest and mourn the loss of life in the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York. The fire that raced through a garment factory on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 in Bangladesh and killed 112 workers…
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It’s been two years since Angela Meriquez Vazquez was infected with COVID-19, but some of her most debilitating symptoms remain. Migraines, fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations, insomnia and sometimes even a fever are among the symptoms that disrupt her day-to-day life. Lisette Duarte still needs an inhaler eight months after her COVID-19 infection, and damage…
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Desmond Lachman, CNN Business Perspectives The Federal Reserve’s timidity with interest rate increases likely means that we will have to learn to live with a prolonged period of high inflation. It also means that we should brace ourselves for a nasty economic recession when the Fed is eventually forced to raise interest rates more aggressively…
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A gauge of U.S. pending home sales fell unexpectedly in February for a fourth straight month as limited inventory continued to restrict a real estate market that’s now facing another challenge — rising borrowing costs. The National Association of Realtors’ index of pending home sales decreased 4.1% from a month earlier to an almost two-year…
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Around 6 million people will buy homes this year, and they will confront two complications: Home prices will keep going up, and so will mortgage rates. These twin challenges might make you feel anxious about being able to afford to buy a home. The anxiety might give you the urge to hurry. “With mortgage rates…
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