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BEIJING (AP) — Two people have been rescued from the rubble of a building in central China more than 50 hours after it collapsed. Dozens remain…

By VANESSA GERA, NICOLE WINFIELD and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A top-level U.S. congressional delegation led by House…

By CHISATO TANAKA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Elena Trofimchuk fled Ukraine to Romania more than a month ago. She now sees…

By CARA ANNA and YESICA FISCH Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A long-awaited evacuation of civilians from a besieged steel plant in…

By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say suspected Islamic State militants blew up a natural gas…

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Current and former Delaware politicians, family and friends of Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV have gathered to remember…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prices for Russian credit default swaps — insurance contracts that protect an investor against a…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say the problem of foul-smelling seaweed-like algae on the country’s…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A plan to create special self-governing zones for foreign investors in Honduras…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities have seized $725 million from Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi, accusing it of breaking the country’s…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett gave Berkshire Hathaway investors a few details Saturday about how he spent more…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is turning to a Cold War-era law to boost production of lithium and other…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press QAnon loyalists, COVID deniers, neo-Nazis and a former American president: The list of people banned from Twitter…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After Truitt Pace admitted to law enforcement that he beat and shot…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s manufacturing activity fell to a six-month low in April as lockdowns continued in Shanghai and other manufacturing hubs in…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YESICA FISCH Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fought village by village Saturday to hold back a…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Rep. Abigail Spanberger first introduced a bill banning stock trading by members of…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people are expected to pack an Omaha arena Saturday for Warren Buffett’s…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is raising the possibility that the state’s last nuclear…

By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Russia has staved off a default on its debt by making a last-minute payment…

The Associated Press More steep losses for technology stocks pushed major indexes lower on Friday, leaving them with steep losses for April. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Amazon, AbbVie fall, Mohawk Industries, Honeywell…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 67 cents to $104.69 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for June delivery rose $1.75 to…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a Los Angeles funeral home owner illegally left the remains of 11 people,…

DENVER (AP) — A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate…

ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — The pilot in charge during a forbidden Red Bull plane-swapping stunt is taking full responsibility for the ensuing crash over…

MONTREAL (AP) — American pharmaceutical company Moderna says it will build a vaccine factory in Montreal, its first outside of the United States.…

By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press For family law attorney Robin Frank, defending parents at one of their lowest points — when they…

By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Inside a cavernous stone fortress in downtown Pittsburgh, attorney Robin Frank defends parents at one…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Fair housing advocates have announced a settlement to resolve a lawsuit against real estate brokerage Redfin…

By The Associated Press A shipment of honeybees bound from California to Alaska died after an airline re-routed them through Atlanta, then left them…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Colorado prison inmate has become the first person in the U.S. to test positive for bird…

BANGKOK (AP) — Petronas, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company, has announced it is withdrawing from Myanmar’s offshore Yetagun natural…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have searched offices of Deutsche Bank in connection with a money laundering investigation. The bank confirmed Friday…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A bomb scare set off scenes of panic at Israel’s airport after an American family showed up with an unexploded artillery shell…

LONDON (AP) — Tennis great Boris Becker was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Friday for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has set tentative dates in June to publicly review COVID-19…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has launched a late bid to buy Chelsea for 4.25 billion pounds. Rival offers…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state gas giant says it is gradually restoring the flow of gas to the municipalities that lost it after a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve surged 6.6% in March…

Airbnb says its employees can live and work almost anywhere around the world, as the company embraces a fully remote work policy to attract staff and…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil reported $5.48 billion in profits during the first quarter as oil and gas prices…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The former owner of two Vermont ski resorts was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for…

By TINA OREM of NerdWallet Using recent metro-area data from the U.S. Census Bureau and state-level data from the Federation of State Tax…

BERLIN (AP) — The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that Japan is making “significant progress” on its plans to release treated…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Inflation has hit a record for the 19 countries that use the euro. The European Union’s statistics agency reported on Friday…

By The Associated Press Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches. The company said Friday it will…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 900 points Friday as another sharp sell-off…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will ease its outdoor mask mandate starting next week as COVID-19…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — India is in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave that is stunting wheat production.…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE and ROSS D. FRANKLIN Associated Press GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) — As Forrest Gump in the Oscar-winning 1994 film of the same name,…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada casinos reported near-record March house winnings, while the airport in Las Vegas reported passenger traffic almost as…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government watchdog report finds that while most Americans are eligible to file their…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press EDGARD, La. (AP) — Descendants of slaves who lived in southeastern Louisiana have won a key ruling allowing…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 on Thursday, its money-making juggernaut…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple on Thursday reported strong quarterly results despite supply shortages, but…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s attorney general has subpoenaed ExxonMobil as part of what he called a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Growth slammed into reverse at the start of this year for Robinhood Markets, whose trading app has turned millions of people into…

The Associated Press Stocks rallied on Wall Street Thursday as technology companies clawed back some of the ground they had lost recently. The gains…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: McDonald’s, Qualcomm rise; Ford, Domino’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The money that President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve for Ukraine is designed to help with a range of needs —…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s upbeat message that the economy is cruising along hit a troublesome speed…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $3.34 to $105.36 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for June delivery rose $2.27 to…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is suing Family Dollar over the discovery of 1,000 rodents in a distribution…

By KEVIN FREKING and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing growing worries about high gasoline prices, Democratic leaders…

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio school board outside Cincinnati voted during an emergency meeting on Wednesday to censure a member who said she…

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A retired Michigan optometrist faces federal charges for allegedly leaving nooses and notes mocking the Black Lives Matter…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has rejected accusations by Athens that its warplanes conducted unauthorized military flights over Greek islands and…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday released its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the global pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

By LORNE COOK, DANICA KIRKA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Cutting off natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria cost Russian…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged down for the first time in two months following a…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After years of screaming higher, almost regardless of what the economy was doing, tech-oriented…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, and faces threats from…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell again last week and…

By ALAN FRAM, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants Congress to provide $33 billion to bolster…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is postponing until the end of 2023 some checks on imports from the European Union that are…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is reporting a loss of $278 million in the first quarter but says it will be…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish brewer Carlsberg says it saw a strong growth in the first three months of the year despite trying to sell its…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s said higher U.S. menu prices and easing COVID restrictions in Europe helped offset troubled markets…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Caterpillar’s first-quarter sales climbed as construction equipment demand continues to surge even though…

By TINA OREM of NerdWallet For small-business owners, preparing an income tax return is far from simple, which can increase the chances of making a…