CALGARY — Kinder Morgan says it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada’s oil sands to the Pacific Coast. The company said Sunday its decision is based on the British Columbia government’s opposition to the project, […]
CALGARY — Kinder Morgan is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The company says its decision is based on the British Columbia government’s opposition to the project, which has been the focus of sustained protests. Kinder Morgan says it will consult with “various stakeholders” to try and […]
NEW YORK — Get ready to find out if your Facebook data has been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a detailed message on their news feeds. Facebook says most of the affected users (more than […]
NEW YORK — Late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel has apologized for a joke about first lady Melania Trump’s accent and moved to deescalate a feud with Fox News host Sean Hannity. Kimmel says in a Twitter post made Sunday his exchanges with Hannity have been fun but he doesn’t want to add to the “vitriol” of […]
HARRISON, Ohio — Federal authorities say an Ohio-based food company is recalling more than 14,000 pounds (6,000 kilograms) of pulled barbequed beef products that could be contaminated with rubber. The U.S. agriculture department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reports that J.T.M. Provisions Co. of Harrison had received two consumer complaints of extraneous material contamination. There […]
CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline shot up 8 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $2.74. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday the increase was driven primarily by rising crude oil prices. The current gas price is 30 cents above where it was a year ago. The highest […]
PARIS — French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says the government won’t back down in the face of rail strikes that are crippling travel in France. Philippe said in an interview published by French newspaper Le Parisien as a new round of strikes began Sunday that he receives daily messages from supporters telling him to go […]
WASHINGTON — The computer expert who alleges a trove of Facebook data was improperly used to help President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election says he will co-operate with a Justice Department investigation. Christopher Wylie is a whistleblower and former employee of the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which has come under criticism over […]
NEW YORK — Equifax announced last month that Mark Begor, a long-time financial industry executive, would take over as CEO of the company on April 16. Begor joins Equifax at a time when it’s still recovering from last year’s massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million Americans. The stolen information […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped create the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Dozens of workers demolishing a plutonium processing plant from the 1940s have inhaled or ingested […]