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'Barbenheimer' was a boon to movie theaters and a headache for many workers. So they're unionizing

'Barbenheimer' was a boon to movie theaters and a headache for many workers. So they're unionizing

NEW YORK (AP) — For movie theater owners around the country, the same-day release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” this summer meant record box office sales and a gratifying sign that the public still craved entertainment on the big screen.
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Stock market today: Asian markets slip as rising yields in the bond market pressure stocks

Stock market today: Asian markets slip as rising yields in the bond market pressure stocks

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets slipped on Friday following a decline on Wall Street driven by mounting pressure from rising bond market yields. U.S. futures rose slightly, and oil prices gained.
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Stock market today: Asian markets slip as rising yields in the bond market pressure stocks

Stock market today: Asian markets slip as rising yields in the bond market pressure stocks

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets slipped on Friday following a decline on Wall Street driven by mounting pressure from rising bond market yields. U.S. futures rose slightly, and oil prices gained.
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Ford says it's at the limit on how much it can spend to get new contract with striking autoworkers

Ford says it's at the limit on how much it can spend to get new contract with striking autoworkers

DETROIT (AP) — A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union.
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US says it found health and safety violations at a GM joint venture battery plant in Ohio

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Labor Department said Thursday that investigators found 19 safety and health violations at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio during a two-week period this year.
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AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EDT

Palestinians rush to buy food and struggle under strikes as Israel readies possible ground operation JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians lined up outside bakeries and grocery stores in Gaza on Thursday after spending the night surrounded by the ruins of pu
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More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, an AP-NORC poll shows

More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, an AP-NORC poll shows

A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit's Big Three carmakers, although approval of the workers' other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public A
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Japanese automaker Toyota and energy company Idemitsu to cooperate on EV battery technology

Japanese automaker Toyota and energy company Idemitsu to cooperate on EV battery technology

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota agreed Thursday to work with Idemitsu, a major Japanese oil company, on technology for mass production of solid-state batteries that promise to be a key component in future electric vehicles.
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AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

As strikes devastate Gaza, Israel forms unity government to oversee war sparked by Hamas attack JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined with a top political rival Wednesday to create a wartime Cabinet to oversee the fight to
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After a hard fight to clear militants, Israeli soldiers find a scene of destruction, slain children

After a hard fight to clear militants, Israeli soldiers find a scene of destruction, slain children

KIBBUTZ BE'ERI, Israel (AP) — Trudging down a cul-de-sac turned to rubble, an Israeli army commander stopped in front of one scorched home, its front wall blown wide open.
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