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PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has moved forward with easing coronavirus restrictions, cancelling a requirement for people to present a…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When love goes wrong, exactly what is today’s etiquette on maintaining joint access…

By ALICE FUNG and JANICE LO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents are lining up outside hair salons and snapping up fresh…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says laws requiring people in England with COVID-19 to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A public spending watchdog says Britain’s departure from the European Union has brought higher…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Democratic senators are calling for suspending the federal gas tax for the remainder of the year to help consumers…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Worrying about overall financial issues can make people less likely to plan for retirement, according to a 2021…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 vaccines and the return of customers to stores helped push CVS Health well past fourth-quarter earnings…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s parliament and president have approved a defense military treaty with the United States. The Defense…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Like people, cars have different personalities, and choosing a car like you would a date might help you find the perfect…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An appeals court in Denmark has increased the compensation a newspaper was ordered to pay for violating the copyright of…

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 27,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the cabin heating systems may not defrost the windshield quickly…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s A.P. Moeller-Maersk says 2021 was the most profitable year yet for the world’s biggest shipping company.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has decided to divert some of its gas reserves to Europe amid growing concern over…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says “COVID isn’t finished with us,” as he appealed…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors try to gauge U.S. inflation, tensions between Russia…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German exports increased for the third consecutive month in December. That capped a year in which they…

By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden has ended wide-scale testing for COVID-19 even among people showing symptoms of a…

By INNA VARENYTSIA, LORI HINNANT and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Washington is raising the rhetoric about the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda has reported its profit dropped 32% in the last quarter as rising material costs and a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says its profit slipped nearly 6% in the last quarter, totaling $6.9 billion. The earnings…

By NICK PERRY and DAVID RISING Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Entrepreneur Elon Musk is trying to help reconnect Tonga to the…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the powerful Food and Drug Administration has stalled in…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans who’ve never filed a tax return will need to do so this year to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Nearly a year after 10 people were shot and killed at a supermarket in Colorado, the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The foreign ministers of Australia and Lithuania have agreed to step up cooperation on…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The cost of California’s high-speed rail line is going up again. A business…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks has fired seven employees who were leading an effort to unionize a Memphis, Tennessee, store. The…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed a bill eliminating the state’s ban on nuclear…

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Beijing has won the week for prime-time ratings. The top four out of 20 shows last…

The Associated Press Technology companies and banks led stocks higher on Wall Street Tuesday, more than making up the market’s losses a day…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Pfizer, Chevron fall; Harley-Davidson, Chegg…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a bipartisan bill that would lift onerous budget requirements that have…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has signed a bill to refinance more than $800 million worth of bonds following…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Peloton is ending its plans to open its first U.S. factory in Ohio. It would have employed 2,000 workers near Toledo. The…

BERLIN (AP) — Plastic pollution at sea is reaching worrying levels and will continue to grow even if significant action is taken now to stop such…

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

By THALIA BEATY NEW YORK (AP) — A small group of enthusiasts has an offer that it’s hoping U.S. cities can’t refuse – the prospect of…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is expanding the iPhone’s capabilities to accept contactless payments. It’s a move…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Super Bowl’s return to the Los Angeles area after a nearly 30-year absence is…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Moxie, a polarizing beverage that is Maine’s official soft drink, is in short supply because of supply chain woes. The…

By ROB GILLIES and TRACEY LINDEMAN Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian lawmakers are expressing increasing worry about the economic…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Express has launched a checking account that comes with a debit card that will allow its…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press The Biden administration wants families with children to know that there is roughly $193 billion waiting for them —…

By The Associated Press The Justice Department is standing by a settlement it reached with Boeing to drop criminal charges relating to the 737 Max…

The Chronicle of Philanthropy These are the donors who gave the most in 2021, according to the Philanthropy 50, an annual ranking compiled by the…

By MARIA DI MENTO and BEN GOSE of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy A handful of Americans donated at least $1 billion to…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials have announced that an Australian electric vehicle charging company will…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has targeted Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister has appointed an army general to head a new Cyber Defense Force. Defense Minister Mariusz…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced its largest-ever financial seizure — more than $3.5…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is defending its fishermen as the U.S. government bans Mexican fishing vessels from entering U.S. ports on the Gulf of…

CHICAGO (AP) — Boeing is reporting a slight edge over Airbus in airplane deliveries and a bigger advantage in new orders from last month.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Police in Belgium have detained 13 people following raids in and around the port city of Antwerp as part of an investigation into…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit soared to a record $859.1 billion last year as American consumers…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has appointed a commissioner to tackle sexual abuse and…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Like Facebook and Twitter, Spotify is learning the limits of deflecting responsibility for what is…

VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats from Iran and world powers have reconvened in Vienna to seek a deal reviving Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal, with pressure…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Serena Williams is normally the one participating in a major championship…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of Turkish healthcare workers, frustrated by an erosion of their income, have gone on strike, demanding better pay and…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A new day of high-stakes diplomacy beckons as European leaders try to reinvigorate stalled peace…

MADRID (AP) — Spain is scrapping a mandate to wear masks outdoors, as COVID-19 infection rates drop and hospitals report lower admissions. The…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says all pornography websites will be legally required to verify that users are 18 or older as part of new…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s foreign ministry says it has summoned South Korea’s ambassador to protest against a social media post about disputed…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers The co-founder of Peloton is stepping down as chief executive after an extended…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 vaccine sales boosted Pfizer earnings well past fourth-quarter expectations, but the drugmaker has set a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of fishing companies in New England is bringing its bid to try to end…

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet The next time you check your DMs, you could see a message from a debt collector. Late last year, the Consumer…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot is being used to probe the hardest-hit nuclear reactor at Japan’s…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Vodafone Portugal says it has been hacked though no confidential customer data was compromised. The company is one of the…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 485,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outdoors…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has decried calls from the main opposition party to suspend the…

By CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — With nowhere really to go, journalists inside the Beijing Olympics bubble are encouraged to sleep…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is announcing a $48 billion plan to become a major semiconductor producer. With…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish retiree is campaigning to keep in-person customer services at bank branches. On Tuesday he was handing government officials…

LONDON (AP) — BP PLC has reported its biggest full-year profit for eight years. Its coffers have been boosted by soaring oil and gas prices that…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two American-born athletes competing for China. Two radically different reactions from…

BEIJING (AP) — China has ordered inhabitants of the southern city of Baise to stay home and suspended transportation links amid a surge in COVID-19…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan has swung back into the black for the quarter through December, despite…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology investor SoftBank says its planned sale of the British semiconductor and…

By EDITH M.. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies clashed with Russia and China in the U.N. Security…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A Telenor Myanmar customer has complained to Norway’s data protection authority that a…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks are higher after Wall Street rebounded as investors waited for U.S. inflation data…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi Ports Group is trading on Abu Dhabi’s stock exchange for the first time, following a $1.1 billion…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top science adviser Eric Lander has resigned after the White House…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Hundreds of people protesting vaccine and mask mandates drove in convoy to New…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea plans to increase its government spending on pandemic measures by…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Conservation groups are suing a Maui resort, saying its bright lights disorient…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal records show a corroded pipeline that ruptured and spilled…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago banker has been sentenced to a year in prison for his conviction in a scheme to make $16…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a Chinese telecommunications company of stealing mobile radio…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly $725 million in federal funding is available this fiscal year to 22 states and the…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press U.S. government officials say they have reached an agreement to essentially lift the 25% tariff that former President…

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump is leaving the board of directors of Facebook…

The Associated Press Stocks ended another bumpy day with mixed results on Wall Street Monday. The S&P 500 finished lower, while the Nasdaq also…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has approved a bill requiring workers receive up to two weeks of…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Spirit Airlines, Tyson Foods rise; Cerence, Zimmer…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a man who opened fire at a grocery store in Washington state, killing one person and injuring…