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WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A wealthy California town has abandoned a claim that that it is exempt from a new state law allowing increased housing…

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

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the world’s largest companies are failing to take significant enough steps to meet…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS sys it will stop using facial recognition technology to authenticate people who create…

BERLIN (AP) — An independent panel says Germany’s state-funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle was right to suspend five employees and recommended…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is successfully stepping up the fight to fend off risky foreign takeovers from nations like China that could…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main ruling party says the country’s finance minister has resigned over “shortcomings” of the new…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has brought in new senior staffers as he tries to restore his…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Add Allegiant Air to the list of airlines getting a new CEO this year. Parent company Allegiant Travel said Monday that Maurice…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is working on plans to relax coronavirus restrictions after the peak in new cases has passed, likely by the end of February.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is raising red flags about 33 Chinese companies whose legitimacy it…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost once made comedy skits on “Saturday Night…

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Associated Press Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines are proposing to combine in a $2.9 billion deal. If it…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet While money can be a source of stress in relationships, it can also spark romance if you use money dates to focus on…

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss criminal court is opening a trial on charges that Credit Suisse failed to do enough to stop money laundering linked to drug…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — World leaders are trying to walk a diplomatic tightrope that could mean the difference between war…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press A Biden administration task force has issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and…

BERLIN (AP) — Talks to revive Iran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers are to resume on Tuesday after breaking off for a bit over a…

By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Shougang Group steel mill that once billowed smoke into smoggy Beijing is sending something else…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese technology giant Toshiba says it plans to split into two companies, one focused…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli newspaper says police allegedly used spyware on the phones of former Prime Minister…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The race is on to snap up scarce 2022 Winter Olympic souvenirs. Dolls of mascot Bing Dwen Dwen sold…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — GlobalWafers Co., which supplies silicon wafers to semiconductor manufacturers, says it will invest $3.6 billion in…

The Associated Press Pfizer reports fourth-quarter results Tuesday. The Walt Disney Co. delivers its fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday. The…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from…

By TOM KRISHER and LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press Spotify’s CEO says that while he condemned podcaster Joe Rogan’s use of racial slurs, he…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will no longer use GPS monitoring to enforce quarantines and will also end…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street fell as investors watched for signs of whether…

By TOM KRISHER and LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press Joe Rogan’s mouth has put Spotify in a tough spot. Anti-coronavirus vaccine comments and racial…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Belarusian Association of Journalists says police have arrested a photographer who worked for US-funded Radio Free…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli media reports say police have used sophisticated spyware against a key witness…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Jackass Forever,” the fourth movie in the anarchic stunt and prank series, earned $23.5 million in ticket sales…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For all the potential peril of a workplace romance, the most common source of trouble, experts…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, DAVID McHUGH and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Fears are rising about what would happen to Europe’s…

TORONTO (AP) — John Honderich, the former editor and publisher of the Toronto Star, has died. A Star spokesman said Honderich passed away in his…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify’s popular U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized after a video compilation…

GULFPORT, Fla. (AP) — A home along Florida’s Gulf Coast will be auctioned off in the upcoming week as a non-fungible token in what is believed to…

PARIS (AP) — EU and French authorities are investigating possible violation of fishing practices after environmental group Sea Shepherd released…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Delta Air Lines has told the U.S. Department of Justice that any person convicted of…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first…

By DAVID KLEPPER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press A decision by Twitter and Facebook to ban former President Donald Trump a year ago has prompted…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former executive director of a surgical center who helped her physician husband bilk…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the White House were bracing for bad economic news. But instead they got a…

The Associated Press Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may…

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Amazon, Snap rise; Ford, Clorox…

By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Renewed legal challenges have been mounted in about half the states against a requirement from…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California gas utility must pay a nearly $10 million fine and reimburse…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fine art isn’t just nice to look at. It’s also attractive to criminals trying to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the western Colorado ranch owned by…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will begin offering limited Saturday walk-in help for taxpayers this tax season.…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration says the mineral rights under the original…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has continued its endorsement of Moderna’s…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The message the U.S. jobs report sent Friday was a surprising one: Despite a surge in viral…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It’s official: New York is now the largest sports betting market in America after just…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election spurred on by former…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on five senior members of Mali’s transitional government,…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has extended tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on most solar…

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked,…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house…

BERLIN (AP) — Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom says German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been nominated to join its board of…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s says that recent offers to purchase the department store chain undervalue its…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has suspended an order by Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister to halt border checks on…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to get a grip on his government after weeks of scandal.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from the end of…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s much-anticipated legal pot shops could be a year away from opening. But the state…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has received the backing of his Chinese counterpart…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s next central bank governor will be NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Google is joining Ford Motor Co.’s effort to transform a…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has celebrated its Independence Day with an appeal by the president…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a container ship that ran aground off a German North Sea island has been towed free a day after it got stuck. The…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A planned $3.4 billion coal-fired power plant in Dubai instead will be converted to use natural gas.…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprising burst of hiring, America’s employers added 467,000 jobs in January…

By DAVID SHARP, KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Investors are snapping up Snap Inc. after the owner of the disappearing message platform Snapchat surprised…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has announced the creation of a new Cyber Safety Review Board that will have public and…

DEMING, Wash. (AP) — Experts from the United Nations are calling on the U.S. government to stop the Nooksack Indian Tribe’s ongoing effort to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The abrupt ouster of CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker because of a workplace relationship has left…

The Associated Press A historic plunge in the stock price of Facebook’s parent company helped yank other tech stocks lower on Wall Street Thursday,…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Meta Platforms, Spotify fall; Humana, Ralph Lauren…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. reversed a loss and rode some big accounting charges to post a $17.94 billion net…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s profits in the fourth quarter nearly doubled, beating analysts’…

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

By FELICIA FONSECA and TED WARREN Associated Press Money that will flow to Native American tribes as part of an opioid drug settlement with a major…

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish parliament has ratified by a single, mistaken vote a landmark labor reform devised by the country’s Socialist-led…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A congressional committee is looking into the controversy over the launch of new high-speed wireless service and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Workers at a General Motors assembly plant in northern Mexico have voted for a new independent union to represent them after…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says people with Medicare will be able to get up to eight…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The United States has delivered two Black Hawk helicopters to Croatia, which is engaged in a mini arms race with neighboring…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta is putting a lot of virtual eggs — and billions of dollars — into the metaverse basket, and Wall…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When COVID-19 shuttered much of the economy in 2020, Bill Thomas sold off his whiskey…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have swerved scarily this year, with big swings and sharp drops. It’s particularly…