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Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet If you’re getting ready to buy a home, you’ve probably been saving for the down payment and other closing…
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met with the de facto rulers of the…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Ratings agencies say Russia is on the verge of defaulting on government bonds following its invasion of Ukraine, with…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds A new car warranty is a contract between the automaker and the vehicle owner. But if the owner doesn’t hold up his or her…
Continue ReadingBy HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has scrapped quarantine and other travel restrictions for foreign visitors in an effort…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The U.S. customs agency says it is holding imported goods from Chinese sports brand Li Ning after an investigation indicated they…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain is ending some of its most comprehensive COVID-19 testing and monitoring programs.…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors have filed an appeal against the verdict in the trial of former Nissan…
Continue ReadingJOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders are trying to calm jittery investors by promising more help for its struggling…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock prices have surged for a second day after the Federal Reserve announced its first…
Continue ReadingBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee has approved a bipartisan blueprint to overhaul the nation’s…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Ratings agencies say Russia could default on its dollar-denominated bonds, billions of which are owed to foreigners. That…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — Two co-founders of a Taiwan biotechnology company have been sentenced for conspiracy to steal trade secrets from…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her nation is “ready to welcome the…
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated in Sri Lanka’s capital, calling…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The U.S. says Russia has asked China to provide military assistance for its war in Ukraine, and that China has responded…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Delivery company DoorDash says it will refund its drivers for some U.S. gasoline purchases to help offset higher…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The venerable CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” has a three-week winning streak as…
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Barcelona’s stadium will be renamed Spotify Camp Nou after the club announced a sponsorship deal…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday as inflation worries ebbed and oil prices slid. The wilder action was in oil and…
Continue ReadingStocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Delta Air Lines, Circor rise; Coupa, Olin…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There’s no way of knowing if cost increases and missed construction deadlines…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Bloom Raskin has withdrawn her nomination to the Federal…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Bloom Raskin, under fire from Senate Republicans for her views on climate change…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee has approved a bipartisan blueprint to overhaul the nation’s…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer and its partner BioNTech asked U.S. regulators to authorize an…
Continue ReadingTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Mercedes-Benz has opened a new electric vehicle battery factory near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that will create up to 600 new…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union have slapped a new round of sanctions against Russia, seeking to deny oligarchs…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — European regulators have cleared Amazon’s purchase of Hollywood studio MGM, saying the deal doesn’t raise any competition…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich as part…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukraine-born businessman has been sentenced to a year in prison for his conviction in a…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Amazon will spend more than $120 million to build affordable-housing units close to transit stations near Seattle and Washington,…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Nearly 7 million chickens and turkeys in 13 states have been killed this year due to avian…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill providing Ukraine with $13.6 billion…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company, Meta, 17 million euros, or about $19 million, for…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — U.S. chipmaker Intel unveiled plans on Tuesday to invest up to $88 billion across Europe as part of…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is visiting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on…
Continue ReadingAMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch government says it will drop its last remaining COVID-19 restrictions next week despite a recent rise in infections as…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — First came the beeping alarms and the dashboard lights warning that something had gone haywire. Then…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTEN GRIFFITH of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Community Legal Services of…
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said the bloc would support the Western…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer Wholesale inflation in the United States shot up 10% last month from a year earlier — another sign that…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The airline industry is raising the stakes in a fight over mandatory rest breaks under California…
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet The ways we save, spend, borrow and even think about money shape our financial habits. Sometimes, we develop habits…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-led administration has agreed to accept Thai baht as an official…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Equal Pay Day by spotlighting new steps aimed at closing the gender…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Air travel is disrupted across Germany as security personnel at several airports stage walkouts demanding higher wages. Numerous…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Anti-virus controls have forced auto and electronics makers to shut factories in China and are…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press It can be hard to measure the ways that Russia’s war in Ukraine has disrupted the global supply of parts and…
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic on Tuesday, with 293 deaths…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have risen as investors await a widely anticipated decision by the U.S. Federal…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The London Metal Exchange says it plans to resume trading in nickel, a week after it was suspended when the price of the metal surged…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An appeals court has overturned a groundbreaking ruling that Australia’s environment…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s state-owned utility says it will list a sliver of its worth on the…
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government is formally exiting bankruptcy after completing the…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer The International Olympic Committee has always been political, from the sheikhs and royals in its membership to a…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China has reported a more than doubling of new COVID-19 cases as it faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has announced that it has approved a new set of sanctions to punish Moscow for…
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief has reaffirmed the 27-country bloc’s desire to integrate the Western…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Turquoise Hill, LKQ rise; Devon Energy, Newmont…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks swayed lower on Wall Street Monday, crude oil prices fell and bond yields rose sharply as waves of market-moving forces…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain says all remaining coronavirus measures for travelers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement for unvaccinated…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law letting Russian airlines register planes leased to them by…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to create a new state office to keep health care prices…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top court has refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin says he opposes the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to a key…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — About 45 million Americans say they plan to bet on this year’s March Madness college…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge has frozen the assets of five of Lebanon’s largest banks and those of their board of directors as she investigates…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it will replace some of its aging Tornado bomber jets with U.S.-made F-35 Lightning II…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Ford says it will have three new electric passenger vehicles and four new electric commercial vehicles in…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will launch one of the most difficult tasks a central…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Blue Apron was struggling at the start of 2020. The meal kit company was trying to boost sales with new options…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s finance minister has proposed a “crisis discount” to dampen the impact of recent…
Continue ReadingBy RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press PRZEMYSL, Poland (AP) — More than 2.8 million refugees fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine…
Continue ReadingFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German prosecutors have charged the former CEO of payments company Wirecard and two other ex-managers with fraud and…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be self-isolating at home, a day after meeting in…
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish watchdog says European countries bought 19% more major arms in the five years to 2021 than they did in the five years…
Continue ReadingBy LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Credit reporting bureaus are eager to add popular and largely unregulated “buy now, pay later” loans to credit…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is lifting most COVID-19 restrictions. People no longer are required to wear face masks in…
Continue ReadingAMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch and Australian governments have launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organization.…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — More than 1,000 security personnel have walked off their jobs at airports across Germany, leading to dozens of flight cancellations…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The “stealth omicron” variant is fueling China’s biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two…
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has begun a trial to determine whether the Boy Scouts of…
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India is bracing for a disruption in Russian arms supplies following Moscow’s invasion of…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mostly lower in Asia and oil prices have fallen further after another day of…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers BOSTON (AP) — Russia’s increasingly strict online censorship measures have…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The Federal Reserve caps a two-day meeting of its policymakers with an economic and interest rate policy update Wednesday. FedEx…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers BOSTON (AP) — Russia’s increasingly strict online censorship measures have…
Continue ReadingCAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline shot up a whopping 79 cents over the past two weeks to $4.43 per gallon.…
Continue ReadingASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — There is an unexpected wait for the result of Turkmenistan’s presidential election that is widely expected to…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press SUCEAVA, Romania (AP) — Elena Yurchuk saw families with children blown up and the hospital she worked in…
Continue ReadingBy FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press CIUDAD PACHACUTEC, Perú (AP) — A recent spill of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru has…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has met with Turkey’s president over lunch in Istanbul in a rare meeting between the neighbors. Greece…
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says AirSerbia will go back to one flight a day to Moscow after criticism that the Serbian…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — Italian paper mills that make everything from pizza boxes to furniture packaging have ground to a…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Citing record-high prices for gasoline, Uber is charging customers a new fuel fee to help offset costs for ride-hail and…
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