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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission has recommended that the bloc’s 27 nations end golden passport…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Group of Seven major economies have agreed to reject Moscow’s demand to pay for Russian…

LONDON (AP) — Russian shares have slumped as its stock market resumed trading of all companies after a monthlong halt following the Ukraine…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s European Union bailout lenders have approved a plan for the country to repay outstanding loans to the…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Taking care of three big tasks soon after you retire can go a long way toward helping your money and your health go the…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government is readying a package of emergency economic measures worth 6 billion euros in direct aid and tax breaks and 10…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have seized accounts belonging to the spyware company FinFischer amid an investigation into whether it broke…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s energy industry recorded about 25% more electricity generated from renewable sources in the first three months of the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei says its 2021 sales fell but profit rose 75.9% despite…

LONDON (AP) — The British government has relinquished control of the former Royal Bank of Scotland for the first time since it bailed out the…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ energy minister has doubled down on an oil alliance…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire has broken out at an under-construction new terminal at Kuwait International Airport. Firefighters…

By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Soaring energy and food prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are pushing some Middle…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of workers have begun a two-day strike across India to express their anger at the government’s economic policies and…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A troubled Dubai real estate developer says it suspected $42 million had been…

The Associated Press Online pet store Chewy reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results Tuesday. The Commerce Department serves up its monthly snapshot…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares are higher after an advance on Wall Street ahead of another round of talks…

BEIJING (AP) — China has begun its most extensive lockdown in two years to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of central and Southern California grocery workers have voted to authorize their union to call a strike against…

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline dropped 6 cents over the past two weeks to $4.37 per gallon.…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say the second “black box” has been recovered from the crash of a China…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela is claiming victory in his nation’s…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats have secured a big election win in a…

By FRANK JORDANS, ARITZ PARRA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Europe’s most pressing energy policy goal was reducing carbon…

By YESICA FISCH and CARA ANNA Associated Press ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — The Black Sea port of Odesa is mining its beaches and rushing to defend itself…

By The Associated Press The 94th Academy Awards are right around the corner. The ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC, starting at 8 p.m. ET on…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden intends to propose a minimum tax of 20% on households worth more than $100…

DETROIT (AP) — A former official at a suburban Detroit branch of the United Auto Workers has pleaded guilty to charges that he embezzled more than…

LONDON (AP) — The British Museum will remove the Sackler name from galleries, rooms and endowments following global outrage over the role the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sought to assert Hungary’s neutrality in the…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met top Nepalese officials during a three-day trip, which comes just weeks after…

By HALELUYA HADERO, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and JAY REEVES Associated Press Amazon is gearing up for its toughest labor fight yet. Two separate union…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People around the world have donated millions of dollars directly to Ukraine’s war effort…

By LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on energy-rich nations to increase their…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have officially declared that there were no survivors in the crash of a China Eastern 737-800 earlier this week…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Just days ago, Artem Gorelov was trying to survive in one of the most brutal parts of Ukraine,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are extending pandemic relief to help major airlines keep their coveted takeoff and landing rights at big…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury in Las Vegas awarded $8 million to a 38-year-old middle school special education teacher who sued after being permanently…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Washington Post politics reporter who said the newspaper discriminated…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledges that he broke the law when he beat the central bank to an…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Black News Channel shut down on Friday after failing to meet its payroll and losing the support…

The Associated Press Stocks wound up mostly higher on Wall Street Friday after another day of bouncing around as traders try to figure out what’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Cutera, Titan rise; Huntsman, General Motors…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders struggled for hours Friday to find a compromise on a deal aimed at…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach officials have spent recent years trying to control the raucous crowds,…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — States and localities are increasingly tapping federal funds to help finance efforts to build more…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate has fallen to 5.4% after employers added a surprising…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is celebrating what he calls a “once in a generation milestone” _…

By SAM METZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP lawmakers in Utah have pushed through a ban on transgender youth…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Workers at the end point of the trans-Alaska pipeline are using saws to cut up large chunks of snow on top of oil storage…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge alleging that he…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is shutting down its pickup truck factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for two weeks next month because the company has…

BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) — A late-night explosion at a natural gas pipeline in rural west Alabama is under investigation by federal agents. And a…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE and BABA AHMED Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — West African leaders on Friday said they would uphold the regional sanctions…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people have lined the streets in central Athens as fighter jets flew overhead and tanks rolled down the street…

By DREW LINDSAY of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Pete Kadens, who made the bulk of his fortune as CEO of a billion-dollar…

GENEVA (AP) — The governing body of the U.N.’s labor agency has picked a Togo executive to be the agency’s new leader and the first…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have…

By KELVIN CHAN and SAM PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union set the stage for a stepped-up crackdown on tech companies…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government and the country’s main trucking federations have reached an agreement on financial help for an industry hurt…

BERLIN (AP) — A survey shows that German business confidence has dropped sharply as company managers’ outlook for the coming months darkens…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists have staged a 10th series of worldwide protests to demand that leaders take…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s transport secretary has vowed to force a ferry operator to reverse the illegal firing of…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is offering a major expansion of natural gas shipments to Europe amid the…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks wound up mostly higher on Wall Street Friday after another day of bouncing around as…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ST. REGIS MOHAWK RESERVATION, N.Y. (AP) — As New York inches toward launching a retail marijuana market, sales are…

By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — Five days after the crash of a passenger jet in mountainous southern China, the…

By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say they don’t blame President Joe Biden for high…

SAN SIMEON, Calif. (AP) — California’s famous Hearst Castle will reopen to the public in May after a two-year closure due to the pandemic and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials agreed Thursday on a landmark provisional agreement aimed at clamping down on the biggest online…

By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press WUZHOU, China (AP) — People in rain gear and rubber boots are searching muddy, forested hills in southern China for…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say five people illegally trafficked more than 500 guns from Georgia to California, where they would…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer Global sailing league SailGP could have a team owned and operated by cryptocurrency enthusiasts as soon as the…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — President Vladimir Putin’s threat to have “unfriendly” countries pay for…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says four Russian government officials have been charged in hacks that…

SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California say a 61-year-old woman was arrested in Oklahoma in the 1993 killing of a Northern…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid pushback from industry groups and lawmakers in both parties, federal energy regulators are…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Thursday and oil prices slipped as a streak of uneven trading continues on world markets.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Uber, Ollie’s rise; KB Home, Steelcase…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has signed deals worth some 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) to buy three navy…

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

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say three people have been handed preliminary charges in a suspected horseracing doping ring as the result of a…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Edward “Ned” Johnson III, a businessman who grew Fidelity Investments into the financial giant…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is adding a new, fourth fare category to try to boost revenue. Southwest said…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has preserved a sense of rarely seen unity through four…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it’s recommending that an antibody drug developed by AstraZeneca be authorized…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and its allies are moving to prohibit financial transactions with Russia’s…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon is keeping the brother of the country’s embattled central bank governor in custody, days after he was arrested. The…

PARIS (AP) — Dozens of nations, including the United States and much of Europe, say they’re united in seeking to “radically” reduce…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After millions of dollars in spending and hundreds of new hires, CNN is ready to launch its CNN+…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor has exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine…

CHICAGO (AP) — The chance to get free gasoline is fueling a rush to get in line at some four dozen Chicago-area gas stations. The tab for…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife,…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Companies in the S&P 500 bought a record amount of their own stock last year and don’t show any signs of…