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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has found merit to a complaint that Amazon violated labor…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is preparing for an energy shortfall equivalent to what it takes to power…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Contract negotiations between 22,000 workers at 29 West Coast ports and representatives of…

The Associated Press The stock market ended an unusually turbulent week with its fifth straight weekly decline. The bumpy and mostly lower ride came…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has declared a state of emergency amid…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Under Armour, Dish fall; Cigna, NRG Energy…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida power company has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for a 2017 explosion that left five workers dead. A plea agreement…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — Friday’s jobs report for April provided mixed signals on the economic issue…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $1.51 to $109.77 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for July delivery rose $1.49 to…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Pilots and airlines have expressed concerns over an increase in dangerous incidents in…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has closed a limestone gravel quarry owned by a U.S. company, a move…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden is reintroducing temporary border controls at airports, road crossings with other countries and other entry points to the…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Under Armour: Quarterly Earnings…

By PHILIPP-MORITZ JENNE Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A train carrying 2,000 metric tons of Ukrainian corn has arrived in Austria. It’s part…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia, a major tech company that has expanded aggressively into gaming, will pay a $5.5 million penalty for…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has sanctioned North Korean digital currency mixing firm Blender.io, which allegedly…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi is addressing concerns about the working conditions for some Capitol Hill…

LONDON (AP) — Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta would have to comply with tough British rules under a new digital watchdog…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden is pledging that 3D printing technology will help return factory jobs…

By JOHN LEICESTER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SONCHAMP, France (AP) — In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe’s…

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Public Library is responding to library scrutiny in Tennessee with a goal to distribute 5,000…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are working toward a compromise on President Joe Biden’s $33 billion Ukraine aid…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the U.S. came close to providing health…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The CEO of Spirit Airlines says JetBlue might be trying to buy his airline just to prevent Frontier Airlines from…

By WILL WEISSERT and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met Thursday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. postmaster general says Americans should get used to “uncomfortable” postage rate increases. Louis DeJoy said…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are strictly limiting who can receive Johnson &…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer DoorDash sales soared in the first quarter as it added new customers, putting to rest any question of whether…

The Associated Press Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street as worries grow in markets that the higher interest rates the Federal Reserve is…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Wayfair, Etsy fall; Albemarle, Booking Holdings…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former leader of a Massachusetts Native American tribe has been convicted of bribery and…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continued buying Occidental Petroleum shares this week…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose 45 cents to $108.26 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for July delivery rose 76…

By DAVID KOENIG and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press Boeing says it plans to move its corporate headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.C., area.…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has promised new state support to shield households from rising electricity costs, saying the…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced a wide-ranging enforcement strategy aimed at holding…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates resumed their ascent this week, as the key 30-year loan reached its highest point since…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wasted nearly $2 million when most of the smartphones bought during the…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A leading Catalan separatist politician says that Spain’s top intelligence official has…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the U.S. came close to providing health…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. dollar’s value surged in April as investors sought refuge amid a growing list of…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted Thursday into the World…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Walgreens pharmacy chain has reached a $683 million settlement with the state of…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some small businesses are still struggling to hire qualified workers, even as Americans return…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has again raised its key interest rate, to the highest level in 23 years, to continue its fight…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Elon Musk has strengthened the equity stake in his $44 billion offer to…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is highlighting its support for proposals to route an international rail line…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Energy giant Shell has reported record first-quarter earnings after a surge in oil prices. The news…

LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised its key interest rate to the highest level in 13 years. It comes as policymakers around the world…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — War-ravaged Ukraine has received pledges for $6.5 billion more in humanitarian aid at an…

By IAN PHILLIPS Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko defended Russia’s invasion of…

MILAN (AP) — Carmaker Stellantis on Thursday reported higher first-quarter revenues despite lower deliveries, with no significant impact from the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is on the verge of eradicating a painful disease from its herd of 10…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Friday as fears spread that U.S. interest rate hikes to…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Telecommunications industry groups have ended their bid to block California’s net neutrality law that prevents…

By JON GAMBRELL and CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters in the tunnels underneath Mariupol’s pulverized steel…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Federal Reserve raises interest rates — as it did Wednesday — the impact…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which…

The Associated Press Stocks soared to their biggest gain in two years Wednesday and bond yields dropped after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Starbucks, Lumentum rise; Lyft, Tupperware…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $5.40 to $107.81 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for July delivery rose $5.17 to…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer This summer at the movies, Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit behind those iconic aviators. Doctors Grant, Sattler and…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Airbus says its first-quarter profit rose sharply from a year ago, as the airlines that buy its planes recover…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Record-low mortgages below 3% are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man will be sentenced in July for his role in a hoax call that led to a fatal police shooting in 2017. Shane Gaskill…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has approved a second round of refunds for customers of a utility that poured billions of dollars into…

By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Russian mercenaries of executing, torturing and beating…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The small town of Mason has announced it has reached a deal halting the threat of a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the controversial “Hand of God” goal against…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it’s taking steps to prevent people from throwing parties at houses they rent for the Memorial Day and July…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 vaccine sales helped Moderna triple its net income in a better-than-expected first quarter. The vaccine maker…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and high-ranking officials from the South American nation have met with the oil…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.P. Moeller-Maersk, says it’s delivered its “best earnings…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The literary writer’s organization PEN America has hired a human rights advocate, Liesl…

LONDON (AP) — A British parliamentary committee scrutinizing draft online safety legislation has invited Elon Musk to discuss his plans to buy…