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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, seemingly intent on making the old new again, has successfully…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Uber has agreed to pay a $19 million fine in Australia for misleading riders by falsely…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Police and new fencing are restricting who can leave a locked-down area in Beijing, where…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AYSE WIETING and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Cooking oil prices have been rising worldwide since the COVID-19…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares retreated on Wednesday, echoing a broad decline on Wall Street and driven by worries…

By MATT O’BRIEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Coming up with $44 billion to buy Twitter was the easy part for Elon Musk. Next comes the real…

By CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York couple who endured the war on drugs is eager to open a recreational…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court has struck down a 2021 law that would have required cellphone companies to collect data like…

NEW YORK (AP) — A businessman who was one of the early investors in a failed professional football league called the Alliance of American Football…

VIDALIA, La. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says it plans to lend up to $107 million to expand an Australian-owned plant that produces…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As Virginia-based Dominion Energy seeks to build what it calls the country’s largest…

By ALEX VEIGA and MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writers Twitter’s acceptance of Elon Musk’s roughly $44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he has no intention of rejoining Twitter after Elon Musk reached…

HONOLULU (AP) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is moving into the business of providing internet service to airline passengers. Hawaiian Airlines said…

The Associated Press A late wave of buying left major indexes higher on Wall Street after another day of up-and-down trading. A rebound in technology…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Exxon Mobil, Lennox fall; Twitter, PS Business Parks…

The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer BOSTON (AP) — Two wealthy parents who were sentenced to prison in the college admissions cheating scandal…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Former Ecuador president Rafael Correa says the political asylum he has been granted in…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press Hours from the California coast, surfers are hoping one of the next spots where they can catch a wave is in the hot,…

ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the crash of one of two planes that were part of a Red Bull stunt in which two pilots attempted to…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The co-leader of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party says former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — All the major railroads now plan to offer their employees up to $600 a month in advance of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Kansas to revive a law that banned secret filming at slaughterhouses and other…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll from two coal mine accidents last week in southern Poland has risen to 12. Authorities said Monday that bodies…

BEIJING (AP) — A U.S.-based intelligence company says it uncovered a network of more than 600 inauthentic Twitter accounts that spread a positive…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The world’s most expensive lunch will go on sale again this spring when investor Warren…

The Associated Press Sales at Coca-Cola surged 16% during the first quarter as crowds returned to movie theaters, music venues and sport stadiums.…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Much of your personal data is likely being tracked and sold, including your location and online activity. This…

BERLIN (AP) — A survey shows that German business confidence has picked up slightly this month after plunging in March following Russia’s…

By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a…

By EMILY WANG and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Beijing will test most of the city’s 21 million people as a new COVID-19…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state television says authorities have foiled massive cyberattacks that sought to target public services, both…

The Associated Press The Commerce Department issues its monthly tally of new U.S. home sales Tuesday and its March snapshot of consumer spending…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks stormed back from sharp losses to log strong gains. Tokyo,…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Himalayan Kashmir for his first public…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On an unusually crowded weekend at movie theaters that featured a pricey Viking epic and Nicolas Cage…

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The Lundberg Survey says the national average retail price of regular-grade gasoline dropped 3 cents in the past two weeks…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian oil official says as many as 100 people may have died in an explosion at an…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are pledging full transparency as they launch inquiries into the allegations that…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will become the final state with a law requiring equal pay for equal…

By STEVE PEOPLES and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In taking on Disney, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Left party says it will hold a leadership vote in June amid a series of internal spats including over the handling of…

By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities say the death toll from accidents in recent days at two coal mines in southern Poland has increased to…

PARIS (AP) — French voters in the presidential election are using an old-school voting system that has defied calls for more flexibility or…

By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Early official results from Sunday’s parliamentary election in Slovenia show that…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has comfortably won reelection to a second term. His victory…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China is promoting coal-fired power as the ruling Communist Party tries to revive a sluggish…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology entrepreneur and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has a new title: Block Head. A regulatory disclosure Friday from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican workers have voted yet again for an independent union, this time in a city where border assembly plants have been…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A labor board official has ruled that a small group of Wisconsin-based video game workers can vote to form what could be the…

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people are protesting against plans to bulldoze a village in western Germany for a coal mine that environmental…

By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two months into the Russian-Ukraine war, the Kremlin has taken…

BERLIN (AP) — Twitter says it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change. The company said in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese Fisheries Agency says Japan and Russia have reached an agreement over Tokyo’s annual…

By KELVIN CHAN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech,…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, DEBORA ALVARES and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s…

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal labor officials have asked a judge to force Starbucks Corp. to reinstate three union activists at its Phoenix location,…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Some airlines say they will consider refunds or credits for passengers who don’t want to fly…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: HCA Healthcare, Gap fall; SVB Financial, Schlumberger…

The Associated Press Stocks slumped on Wall Street Friday, leaving the S&P 500 with its biggest one-day loss in almost seven weeks, as worries…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a Czech millionaire who drove a high-powered sportscar along a German…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Epic business failures — the Edsel, Quibi, New Coke — have some new company. CNN’s parent…

The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill dissolving Walt Disney World’s private…

ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States unleashed some of its toughest actions against Russian President Vladimir…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell isn’t as pleased with the robust U.S. job market as you might…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than two years after he started work on it, Gov. Tom Wolf is set to enact the centerpiece…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of interest groups have met with White House staffers to try to influence a…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union officials are nearing agreement on a sweeping new law aimed at protecting internet…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will ban exports of cooking oil and its raw materials to reduce domestic…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Britain have urged Russia to declare an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, as British…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Express’ first-quarter profits fell roughly 6% from a year earlier, but the company saw…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Ideas for reducing greenhouse gas in the atmosphere are getting a funding boost from famed…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has announced that beginning next month, visitors who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer have to…

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for disgraced auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn, who fled Japan in 2019 for…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slumped on Wall Street Friday, leaving the S&P 500 with its biggest…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Philadelphia health officials say they’re ending the city’s indoor mask mandate, abruptly reversing…