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By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl advertisers this year want Americans to forget about pandemic woes and focus on the…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The chill of a Cold War hangs over Eastern Europe again. Russia is carrying out military maneuvers…

By AAMER MADHANI and KATHY GANNON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to split $7 billion in…

By MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is escalating its warnings about…

By TINA OREM of NerdWallet Small-business owners, freelancers and people with side gigs can reduce their tax bills and their anxiety levels this…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities are scrambling to contain the country’s second oil spill in less than three weeks in the Gulf of Thailand. An…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say car crashes and traffic deaths dropped in Utah after the state enacted the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — An annual report from the United Nations labor agency has highlighted the work conditions of Uyghurs…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — If you’re a journalist, there are few advantages to working inside the hermetically sealed…

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer Veteran NFL coach Anthony Lynn designed a personal defense in response to the league policy that requires teams to…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Spiking energy prices are raising utility bills from Poland to the United…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Several conservative media figures in the U.S. have lined up in support of Canadian truckers who…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks tumbled again Friday, and this time bond yields joined in the swoon as…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s Elon Musk says the first orbital flight of his towering Starship…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — High inflation and tangled supply chains have seeped into nearly every nook of the…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s Elon Musk says the first orbital flight of his towering Starship…

By CANDICE CHOI and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — To stage the Winter Games in the Chinese capital, organizers embarked on a massive…

By The Associated Press Sting is selling every song he wrote. The British singer-songwriter is selling his music catalog to Universal Music…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge has blocked a Georgia county from buying land for a commercial spaceport until the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say a strain of avian flu that can cause high mortality rates among birds confirmed at a commercial turkey farm…

SEATTLE (AP) — A man who U.S. authorities said was involved in a sophisticated international video game piracy group called Team Xecutor has been…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it has purchased enough doses of a yet-to-be approved…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The editor of Louisiana’s largest newspaper is retiring, and the new editor is a returning New Orleans native who comes to the…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Mattel, Walt Disney rise; Canada Goose, Lumen…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket startup’s big launch debut at Florida’s Cape Canaveral has…

By The Associated Press Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is proving safe and effective for kids as young as 12. The Maryland-based company makes a…

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

By SCOTT SONNER and KEN RITTER Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada and its casinos have stopped requiring people to wear masks in…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Even coming off its fastest rate of annual growth in 37 years, the U.S. economy is…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The largest public power company in the United States is launching a program to develop and fund new small…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Congress has given final approval to legislation guaranteeing that people who experience…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government has approved the state budget for the current year, with a 17% deficit. The…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is vowing to press ahead with changes to the electrical power industry despite U.S. concerns that they…

GENEVA (AP) — Two independent U.N. human rights experts are calling on Sweden’s government not to issue a license to industrial backers of a…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia’s parliament has passed a Holocaust restitution bill that includes funding to revitalize…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit over high health bills filed on behalf of more than 3 million employers and…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped again this week, approaching levels not seen since…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has granted fast-track approval to U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 pill as the…

By ROB GILLIES and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Biden administration urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Thursday…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Energy stocks powered through the broader market’s January slump and are poised to keep rising as long as…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits for the third straight week. Jobless claims fell…

PRAGUE (AP) — Budvar, the Czech brewer that has been in a long legal dispute with U.S. company Anheuser-Busch over use of the “Budweiser”…

BELFORT, France (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron says France plans to build six new nuclear reactors and to extend the life of existing nuclear…

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Nearly 60,000 bees have been stolen from a grocery store company’s field in Pennsylvania. Pennlive.com reports that the bees…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 579,000 vehicles in the U.S. because a “Boombox” function can play…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Coca-Cola posted better-than-expected sales in the fourth quarter as venues like coffee shops and movie theaters…

By ALICE FUNG and DAVID RISING Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents are growing increasingly frustrated with ever tighter…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet For many, supply chain issues mean that you didn’t get your kid the exact toy they wanted or that your favorite spice…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hasn’t been able to escape his domestic woes during a…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — States are getting the go-ahead to build a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations…

GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse has reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.2 billion as the top-drawer Swiss bank wrapped up “a year of challenges”…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeing its economic emergence from the unprecedented COVID-19 slowdown…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the Ukraine crisis has grown into “the most…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany Siemens AG saw net profit at the global maker of trains and industrial…

LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca has recorded a big jump in revenue as it begins to take a profit from its coronavirus vaccine for the first time. The…

By MOSA’AB ELSHAMY Associated Press IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — The death of a 5-year-old boy trapped for days in the dark depths of a well…

PARIS (AP) — Authorities in France and Belgium have banned road blockades threatened by groups organizing online against COVID-19 restrictions. The…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A newspaper says a Chinese real estate developer that is struggling under $310 billion in debt is…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will begin offering Novavax Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine at hospitals,…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A peace agreement for eastern Ukraine has remained stalled for years. But it has come into…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a sell-off on Wall Street spurred by news that…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — California regulators have sued electric car maker Tesla Inc. They allege the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press CULPEPER, Virginia (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying to jump-start progress on his stalled…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its highest rate in four decades, hammering…

By JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has lifted a nearly two-year ban on foreign travelers…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police arrested dozens of protesters camping on the grounds of New Zealand’s…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have signed off on the state’s largest-ever taxpayer-funded incentives to…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A judge has tossed two of six fraud counts against a former Boeing pilot involved in evaluating the troubled Boeing 737…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The hotel that has served for nearly three decades as the Anchorage-based headquarters for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Snoop Dogg has taken over a popular record label that launched his stellar…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Steven Soderbergh loves a good thriller. So he was especially excited when his old friend David Koepp, who wrote…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Uber’s ride-hailing service edged closer to returning to its pre-pandemic levels…

The Associated Press Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday, putting the market further into the green for the week after a solid gain…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Chipotle, Paycom rise; CVS, New Relic…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Sesame Street theme park is set to open next month in San Diego. Officials on Wednesday…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — While New York works to launch a legal recreational marijuana market, some entrepreneurs have…

LONDON (AP) — European scientists have taken a significant step closer to mastering a technology that could allow them to one day harness nuclear…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A clutch of lifestyle and pop culture magazine titles — including Entertainment Weekly,…

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

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s former police chief says that recent allegations about police using sophisticated spyware to hack mobile phones of…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Lawyers for an Indigenous community in eastern Guatemala are making arguments before the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said Wednesday that it has chosen Susan M. Collins,…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Scientists say Oregon faces a potential nightmare scenario unless work is done to fortify its main fuel storage…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal and state agencies say a strain of avian flu that can cause high mortality rates among birds has been confirmed at a…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust regulators have not challenged the $43 billion combination of Discovery and AT&T’s…

By ROB GILLIES and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A blockade of the bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters demanding an end…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A new report says cyber criminal gangs are getting increasingly adept at hacking and…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state of Minnesota has agreed to pay $825,000 and change several policies to settle a lawsuit brought by journalists who say…

By ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer MILTON KEYNES, England (AP) — The Red Bull Formula One team has secured a new title sponsorship worth around $500…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has called for more investment in clean energy and urged Mexico to keep its power market “open…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says the nation’s diplomatic priorities will tilt toward addressing the threat of climate change…