AP National Business

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan, which had been living mostly free of COVID-19, is now facing its worst outbreak since…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported first-quarter operating profits of 354 million euros, down…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese internet services company Baidu has received a permit to provide driverless ride-hailing services to the public in Beijing,…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Businesses in Sri Lanka are closed, teachers absent and public transportation…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and MARC LEVY Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their…

By KELVIN CHAN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Twitter’s quarterly profit, revenue and the number of daily users on its…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If Elon Musk and Twitter get their way, the company will soon be privately held and under his…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal is banning imports of cars, alcohol and tobacco and cutting its work week to…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An independent research group says Germany was the biggest buyer of Russian energy during the first…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) — Ford has reported a $3.1 billion loss for the first quarter, in large part because of a drop in…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Puck and player tracking in the NHL has taken major leaps since it was first tested in January 2019. Coaches…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department has authorized additional exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s one of the most recognizable outfits in American movie history, the blue-and-white…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat says Western allies should send tanks, planes and other heavy weapons to…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook parent Meta’s first quarter profit and its count of daily users jumped past Wall…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Microsoft, Visa rise; Boeing, F5…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Heaven Hill Distillery says it plans to revive its whiskey production in its Kentucky hometown. The family-owned…

WARSAW (AP) — Poland’s air navigation agency says it has agreed to implement all of the demands of the country’s air traffic controllers’…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Perhaps no group of people is more alarmed about Elon Musk’s apparent plan to make Twitter a free speech…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose 32 cents to $102.02 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for June delivery rose 33…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic has legally recognized the use of…

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is expanding a data center in northern Illinois and says more than 200 operational jobs…

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot activists say uncertainty over the safety of war-wracked Ukraine’s nuclear power plants has reignited concerns…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has raised 1.5 billion euros in a 7-year bond re-issue, tapping markets days after a sovereign credit rating upgrade.…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organizations in…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — At the first meeting of Walt Disney World’s private…

LONDON (AP) — British fraud investigators have raided the U.K. offices of the GFG Alliance, owners of the country’s third-largest steelmaker. The…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has made a formal protest to Turkey involving accusations that the fellow-NATO member conducted unauthorized military…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has appealed a New York judge’s decision to hold the former president in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The former director of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency has testified that Pope…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Elon Musk’s bid to throw out a securities fraud settlement over tweets…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is putting China, Russia and five other countries on its annual blacklist…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of a New York-based hedge fund that collapsed when it defaulted on margin calls has…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government extended a price cap on fuel and some basic food items for an additional two months as consumer…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s economy is forecast to grow around 3.6% this year, but Arab oil…

By The Associated Press Russia’s playing hardball on natural gas. State-owned exporter Gazprom says it’s stopping pipeline deliveries to…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved Wednesday to lift visa requirements for people from Qatar and Kuwait to make it easier for them to enter…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm wants to see the EU adopt a law to protect journalists and civil rights activists from…

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — After two years of celebrations muted by coronavirus lockdowns, the Netherlands is marking King…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is reporting a money-losing quarter as both its civilian-airplane division and the defense business are…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Demand for travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels just in time for travel’s hottest season — summer. National…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds The conventional wisdom of car buying once stated that your loan should not exceed 48 months. But the latest data from…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop…

BEIJING (AP) — Drone company DJI Technology Co has temporarily suspended business activities in Russia and Ukraine to ensure its products are not…

GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse is reporting a pretax loss of 428 million Swiss francs ($443 million) and a plunge in revenues in the first quarter. It…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Shanghai city authorities say a taxing, one-month lockdown of China’s largest city may be…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares logged moderate gains on Thursday after Wall Street stabilized following a sell-off in tech…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The older you are, the less you fret about aging in your own home or community.…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump cast himself as a master of “The Art of the Deal,” but…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s Shibuya is famed for its Scramble Crossing, where crowds of people crisscross the…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Three days before Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the world’s richest man tweeted…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will become the first U.S. state to require that gas stations have pumps selling fuel…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Native American leaders are meeting with land managers as the Biden administration…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — General Motors’ net income declined in the first quarter, as the automaker sold fewer cars…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — ABC’s ‘black-ish’ ended its eight-season run with a relatively modest audience of 2.52…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Payment processing giant Visa’s profits rose 21% in the first three months of the year fueled by…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday its investigation into the deadly…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google’s corporate parent has posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth since…

The Associated Press More sharp declines in Big Tech stocks sent the Nasdaq composite down 4% Tuesday, the worst drop for the tech-heavy index since…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: General Electric, Zions Bancorp fall; Whirlpool, Axalta…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department has issued a decision to limit roughly half of the National…

NEW YORK (AP) — Dean Baquet, outgoing executive editor of The New York Times, will lead a fellowship program at the newspaper for local and state…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Lael Brainard to a four-year term as…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $3.16 to $101.70 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for June delivery rose $2.67 to…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 patients have two treatment options that can be taken at home. But that convenience comes with a catch: The…

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and Bulgarian officials said Tuesday that Moscow is cutting off…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is scrapping old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, speeding an…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines, which is facing another attempt to unionize its flight attendants, will begin paying cabin crews…

MIAMI (AP) — Carnival Corp. will soon get a new CEO at the helm of the cruise line operator. The company said Tuesday that CEO Arnold Donald will…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw’s two airports starting Sunday if talks…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — JetBlue is further dialing back its growth plans after struggling with a high number of canceled…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retirement giant Fidelity said Tuesday that it’s launched a way for workers to put some of their…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence dampened slightly in April but remains high even as inflation continues…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — College students squeezed by a massive housing shortage and surging rents are paying too much…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — UC Berkeley sophomore Terrell Thompson slept in his car for nearly two weeks at the start of…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent monitor of Britain’s use of surveillance cameras has asked for the government to…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — The winner of Slovenia’s weekend parliamentary election says he hopes to have a new government formed by mid-June.…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll from two coal mine accidents last week in southern Poland has risen to 13 after another injured miner died.…