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GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — A huge Louisiana oil refinery has been rocked by an explosion and fire; company officials say six people suffered minor…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A motorcyclist who lost his leg after a collision with an Amazon delivery truck has filed a lawsuit arguing that unrealistic…

By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on several top officials in Myanmar and on a lucrative state-owned oil and gas company…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s new social media app has launched. He’s seeking a new…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he is scrapping the last domestic…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman says she’s open to lifting interest…

BERLIN (AP) — German officials have condemned protests by climate activists who blocked roads including near the country’s biggest port. Members…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s power distribution operator says the deadly high winds that struck last…

By AMIR VAHDAT and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has arrived in Qatar and was welcomed in an…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan talks to The Associated Press about the continued strength of…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — With all eyes on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s winter drought is getting worse. The national weather agency reported Monday that 91% of the country is…

By Liz Weston of NerdWallet Everywhere you look, somebody’s willing to give — or sell — you financial advice. In all likelihood, there’s a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China says it will sanction Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin, two U.S. defense contractors that previously faced…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says the bloc is ready to use all tools available to prevent…

The Associated Press The Conference Board delivers its latest monthly index of U.S. consumer confidence Tuesday. Home improvement chain Lowe’s Cos.…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares in Asia have fallen sharply after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered forces…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops. Privacy-protecting software. Concerns…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s largest electricity generator, AGL Energy, has rejected a takeover bid from Australian tech…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — International tourists and business travelers are arriving in Australia after it lifted…

The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An activist investor is trying to make McDonald’s change the way it buys pork for its bacon cheeseburgers and…

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have identified a couple found dead in what investigators said was an apparent murder-suicide in Florida as…

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A gemstone, billed as one of the largest gem-quality opals in existence, has been sold for nearly $144,000…

BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper and other media say a leak of data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-biggest bank, reveals details of the…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press Rents have exploded across the country, causing many to fall behind on payments, dig deep into their savings or…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — As part of the closing ceremony for the most locked-down and sequestered Olympics in human…

MUNICH (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief says he’s deeply concerned about tensions in Bosnia and has appealed to leaders there…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government has presented a contentious half-billion dollar aid grant from the United States for approval in…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek emergency workers have rescued a Belarussian truck driver from a burning ferry off…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, is…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia has started generating electricity from the controversial mega-dam being built on the Blue Nile. The milestone was…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says people with COVID-19 will not be legally required to self-isolate in…

BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — Investors led by the co-owner of the NBA’s Boston Celtics have bought into Atalanta, the soccer team that has gatecrashed…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say a strain of avian flu has been found at a fourth commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana. The Indiana…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional leaders say China has failed to live up to its promise to buy more Maine lobster under a deal that…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The $73 million settlement that some of the Sandy Hook shooting victims’ families won…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. secretary of agriculture says that a Russian invasion of Ukraine…

By KARL RITTER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official says Russia would have its access to financial markets…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the world watches the Beijing Olympics, the story of a chained woman who appeared in a…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the world watches the Beijing Olympics, the story of a chained woman who appeared in a…

By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The popular panda mascot of the Beijing Games got into a minor controversy last week when horrified…

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Federal inspectors say they found more than 1,000 rodents inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas. The…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. securities regulators responded to allegations that they are harassing Tesla CEO Elon Musk, writing in a letter that they’re…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese anti-corruption agency is investigating a former general manager of one of the country’s three major state-owned phone…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A report filed in federal bankruptcy court says members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma are willing…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An opal that is bigger than a brick is up for sale this weekend in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines is cutting back again on summer flights because Boeing can’t deliver planes that the airline…

By GLENN GAMBOA and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers Leave it to Elon Musk to stir up controversy without saying (or tweeting) a word. According…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Roku, Shake Shack fall; Exelixis, Bloomin’ Brands…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving indexes with a second weekly loss in a row after another bout of…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona bill that would prohibit government agencies from contracting with firms that refuse to…

By KRISTEN GRIFFITH of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy MacKenzie Scott, who has given at least $8 billion in the past two…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has formally adopted sweeping new rules that will limit the…

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

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has accused Russia of being responsible for cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says that Washington is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican…

By STAN CHOE and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve should start raising interest rates next month to help…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed a federal watchdog assailed by former President Donald Trump…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government wants to give people better beer choices. And the Treasury Department, of…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration is considering trying to expel Nicaragua from a…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Lewis Hamilton has called on social media companies to do more to stop the spread of online abuse after…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in January, as a surge in buyers paying cash and…

PARIS (AP) — Commuters in Paris are facing disruptions as public transport workers hold a one-day strike to protest what they say is an…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Audible Inc., a leading force in the booming audiobook industry, will be honored…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The battle to unionize Amazon workers is intensifying after labor officials…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA (AP) — Finance leaders of the world’s biggest economies have called for a well coordinated approach…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — One of the best-known pollution cases ever to emerge from the U.S. drilling and fracking…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — One of the best-known pollution cases ever to emerge from the U.S. drilling and fracking…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet It’s common for couples to butt heads about money once in a while. If you can discuss your differences with honesty…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Prices of new and used automobiles are staggeringly high. That’s partly responsible for strong…

By ALICE FUNG and DAVID RISING Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Once bustling Hong Kong is languishing amid a strict zero-COVID strategy that has…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines joins New Zealand in its decision to reject Myanmar under the world’s…

By JIM MUSTIAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — To plead the Fifth or not to plead the Fifth. That’s the question facing…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving indexes with a second weekly loss in a…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has sent President Joe Biden a bill averting a weekend government shutdown. The measure…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Protests in Puerto Rico are multiplying as government employees demand higher pay and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will extend restaurant dining hours but maintain a six-person limit on…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s hospitals have reached 90% capacity and quarantine facilities are at their limit as the city struggles to snuff…

KELVIN CHAN and JIMMY GOLEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The sport of curling is steeped in centuries of tradition. At the Winter Olympics in…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Attorneys in a federal court challenge to Maryland’s first-in-the-nation digital ad tax…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is dealing with another legal setback in New York. A judge refused Thursday to…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Records and data collected by a now-defunct aerial surveillance program in Baltimore will be expunged as part of a federal lawsuit…

The Associated Press Stocks and bond yields sank Thursday as markets remained anxious over the possibility that Russia could invade Ukraine. The…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: TripAdvisor, Hyatt Hotels fall; Walmart, Cisco…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A lease agreement says Ford Motor Co. and a South Korean company would have to create more…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say a strain of avian flu has been found at a third commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana. The Indiana…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A utility in sun-drenched New Mexico is struggling to get enough solar-generated…

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

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A divided federal appeals court panel in New Orleans says a pilot and a flight attendant for…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has sent President Joe Biden a bill averting a weekend government shutdown. The measure…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The chairperson of the Hard Rock gambling, hospitality and entertainment company says it…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and a group of states have not been able to hammer out a new settlement so far as…

By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia is signaling it isn’t willing to pump more…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it is scrapping so-called “golden visas” offering residency to wealthy…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The stock market’s blockbuster gains in 2021 helped pad savers’ retirement…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press Grocery shopping has become an increasingly costly and arduous struggle for many people in Cuba. The pandemic,…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a cruise ship passenger who jumped from her balcony into the sea and is…