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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World has lifted the last of its mask requirements, meaning face coverings will be optional for visitors at all…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Hollywood actor and “Transformers” star Josh Duhamel will continue to promote his home state of North Dakota. The…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its shares…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s no overwhelming favorite for NBA champion as the playoffs start, but that was by no…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday as technology stocks rallied following a weak start. Retailers and health care…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Signature Bank, Johnson & Johnson rise; Acadia, Netgear…

By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A ruling by a judge in Florida means that the federal requirement to wear masks on airplanes and…

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

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is moving toward the trend set by soccer for advertising on uniforms. The…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking the Legislature to repeal a law allowing Walt…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is denying that the country is suffering from a shortage of fuel,…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is restoring federal regulations that require rigorous environmental…

BOSTON (AP) — A former chairperson of the Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors aided the Pilgrims is going on federal trial. Ex-Mashpee Wampanoag…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times named Joseph Kahn as its new executive editor, replacing Dean Baquet with his…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has downgraded the outlook for the world economy this year…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Governments and social media companies have moved to restrict the ability of Russia’s state media to spread…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson is suspending sales forecasts for its COVID-19 vaccine only a few months after saying the shot…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Meta Platforms Inc., the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, plans to celebrate Earth…

By COLIN BERESFORD of NerdWallet Between fall 2019 and 2021, college enrollment nationwide fell by nearly a million students — and for a number of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered what he said is a ”wholehearted” apology for…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mixed in Asia after a rally on Wall Street led by technology stocks. Share…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press The Justice Department says it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police have opened fire at people protesting new…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s health ministry has approved Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, and people could start getting…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged world finance leaders to “get…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Giving rivers room to breathe by restoring their floodplains is at the center of…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic after…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Scientists in Idaho have completed a rare overhaul of one of the world’s most powerful…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is asking lawmakers to approve a massive package of financial…

The Associated Press Stocks closed slightly lower after a wobbly day of trading Monday as worries about rising interest rates and high inflation keep…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Southwest Gas, Bank of America rise; Schwab, DiDi…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prompted by a court order, federal wildlife managers have issued a new draft plan…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a law Monday that will allow the state to move forward with plans to build a canal in…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover attempt with a “poison pill” — a…

MILAN (AP) — Bahrain’s government has announced that a private equity firm based in the country is in “exclusive talks” to buy seven-time…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to meet with Ukraine’s prime minister during this…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ukraine has rejected as baseless and false the accusations made by Serbia’s president that Ukraine’s secret service is…

LONDON (AP) — Police said Monday that they spoke to Scotland’s leader to remind her about sticking to coronavirus mask rules after she was filmed…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a St. Louis-based natural gas company’s appeal of a lower court’s decision…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive $99 million in a settlement finalized with Johnson &…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s employers and trade unions have joined together in opposing an immediate European Union ban on natural gas imports from…

By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — Twitter has dropped a major roadblock in front of Elon Musk’s effort to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland to the 2017 tax law that capped…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A cybersecurity rights group says the phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Christian Klein was a teenager the first time he set foot in SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf, Germany as…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America posted a 12% decline in first-quarter profits from a year earlier, a decline that…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the EU fraud agency accusing French far-right…

By PAUL J. WEBER and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Infowars has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website’s…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Information about you — things you may have thought were private — is stored in databases operated by consumer…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking a key step to ensure federal dollars will support U.S.…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Monday is Tax Day, the federal deadline for individual tax filings and payments. The IRS…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth edged up to a still-weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the first three…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has acknowledged that he made…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has failed to get enough votes to pass a constitutional reform limiting private…

BEIJING (AP) — Officials say three people have died from COVID-19 in Shanghai, in the first reported deaths in the latest outbreak in China’s…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mostly higher in Asia, despite growing worries over the risks of recession. Oil…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are lower in Asia after China reported that its economy expanded at a 4.8% annual…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth edged up to a still-weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the first three…

BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of people in Shanghai who test positive for the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms are being ordered into quarantine…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company…

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office was launched into space from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Congress is holding a debate ahead of a vote on a constitutional reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Chelsea will play Liverpool in the FA Cup final after beating Crystal Palace 2-0. Academy…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s national oil company says it has been forced to shut down an oil field amid a political…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans wait until the last minute to file their taxes, and this year is no…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans protesting for days near the president’s office have criticized a…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating Lucky Charms cereal after dozens of consumers complained…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Several businesses and residents have filed suit in state court in Pennsylvania seeking to overturn Philadelphia’s renewed…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says a former longtime union boss for the nation’s largest correction…

LONDON (AP) — British police say six people were arrested after climate change activists climbed onto an oil tanker in central London to protest…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say one person was killed and seven others injured in an explosion aboard an oil tanker. The Hong Kong…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A commercial oil tanker carrying more than 750 tons of diesel has run aground and…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Employees at two Verizon stores north of Seattle in Everett and Lynnwood have won their union election, making them the first…

DENVER (AP) — A jury has acquitted Denver-based dialysis firm DaVita Inc. and former chairman and CEO Kent Thiry of charges they conspired with…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover attempt with a “poison pill” — a…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to impose additional inspections of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s findings that illusionist David Copperfield and the…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada officials are launching a $500 million program to help provide affordable housing by tapping federal American Rescue Plan…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Twitter said Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a…

By COLLEEN BARRY and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger in the French…