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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has approved a bill requiring workers receive up to two weeks of paid time off if they get sick from the coronavirus. Lawmakers approved the bill Monday. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign it into law. The bill applies to companies

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

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a man who opened fire at a grocery store in Washington state, killing one person and injuring another. The shooting happened Monday morning at a Fred Meyer store in Richland. Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Aaron Christopher Kelley. He fled the scene, though Richland police Commander

WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A wealthy California town has abandoned a claim that that it is exempt from a new state law allowing increased housing density because the entire community is habitat for mountain lions. The Silicon Valley enclave of Woodside said in a statement late Sunday that applications for development of multiple units on

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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 their pledges to vastly reduce the impact of their greenhouse gas emissions in the decades ahead. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the NewClimate Institute, an environmental organization

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS sys it will stop using facial recognition technology to authenticate people who create online accounts after the practice came under criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers. Critics of the software said the database could become a target for cyberthreats and voiced concern about how the

BERLIN (AP) — An independent panel says Germany’s state-funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle was right to suspend five employees and recommended further action against eight others following a probe into allegations of antisemitism. The three-member panel also urged Deutsche Welle to end the cooperation agreements it has with Middle East broadcasters and more closely scrutinize others.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is successfully stepping up the fight to fend off risky foreign takeovers from nations like China that could endanger national security or threaten control over essential sectors like energy, transport and health care. Unprecedented legislation creating a new area of coordination in the 27-nation EU makes the bloc much

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main ruling party says the country’s finance minister has resigned over “shortcomings” of the new tax system that has led to lower net pay for many professionals. The spokeswoman for the ruling Law and Justice party said Monday that Finance Minister Tadeusz Koscinski was taking responsibility for the much-criticized tax

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has brought in new senior staffers as he tries to restore his flagging authority after weeks of turmoil. The appointments include new communications chief Guto Harri, an aide from his days as London mayor, to try to regain control of the government’s

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 Gallagher will step down as CEO on June 1 and be replaced by company president John Redmond. Gallagher has led Allegiant since 2001. He will remain chairman. The announcement

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. Unlike some of its European neighbors, Germany still has many pandemic restrictions in place that exclude unvaccinated people from restaurants, public venues and some stores. A government spokeswoman said

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is raising red flags about 33 Chinese companies whose legitimacy it cannot verify. It’s imposing new restrictions on the Chinese companies’ ability to receive goods from U.S. exporters and requiring extra diligence from American companies that want to do business with them. The Commerce

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost once made comedy skits on “Saturday Night Live,” but now the married couple will reunite onscreen to dodge a mind-reading Alexa device in a new Super Bowl commercial. Johansson and Jost put their normal game-day routine at home into

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 goes through, the combination would create a larger discount airline to compete against the nation’s dominant carriers and, the two airlines say, promote lower fares. Both are ultra-low-cost carriers that tempt

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 your goals as a couple. First, consider your own goals and ask your partner about their values. Next, identify common goals, such as teaming up to vanquish

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 trafficking by a Bulgarian criminal organization. The case against the bank in federal criminal court Monday centers on charges that it “did not take all necessary measures to

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — World leaders are trying to walk a diplomatic tightrope that could mean the difference between war in Ukraine and an uneasy peace there as Russia’s menacing actions on the border of its neighbor continue unabated. Russian President Vladimir Putin is back at the Kremlin following his diplomatic

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 contractors to unionize. The report released Monday includes 70 recommendations. The report argues that a decadeslong drop in union membership has coincided with a rising share of income going to

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 week for diplomats to return home for consultations. The European Union chairs the talks in Vienna and the bloc announced the resumption on Monday. The United States pulled

By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Shougang Group steel mill that once billowed smoke into smoggy Beijing is sending something else skyward this week — Olympic skiers. The sprawling industrial park was shuttered in conjunction with Beijing’s efforts to clean up its image and its air around the 2008 Games. It

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese technology giant Toshiba says it plans to split into two companies, one focused on infrastructure and the other on devices, as it tries to placate unhappy shareholders. Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. is also selling its joint venture stake in Toshiba Carrier Corp. to the U.S.-based

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli newspaper says police allegedly used spyware on the phones of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son and members of his inner circle. Monday’s revelation has prompted a new high-level investigation into the claims that police used sophisticated spyware to target protesters, politicians and other

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 out after buyers waited in line overnight in freezing weather. People showed up with stools outside the Gongmei Emporium on the Wangfujing pedestrian mall in central Beijing. Some

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — GlobalWafers Co., which supplies silicon wafers to semiconductor manufacturers, says it will invest $3.6 billion in facilities in Asia, the United States and Europe after its attempt to acquire Germany’s Siltronic AG failed. The announcement comes as shortages of processor chips and other semiconductors are disrupting auto manufacturing, smartphone and other

The Associated Press Pfizer reports fourth-quarter results Tuesday. The Walt Disney Co. delivers its fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday. The Labor Department issues its latest consumer price index Thursday.

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from Feb. 21. The country had imposed some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions on its citizens and permanent residents in March 2020 to prevent them from bringing COVID-19 home. When the border restrictions

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 doesn’t believe that cutting ties with the popular personality is the answer. Daniel Ek wrote in the letter to employees Sunday that “canceling voices is a slippery slope.” Ek also says the

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 daily checkup calls to low-risk coronavirus patients as a fast-developing omicron surge overwhelms health and government workers. The country’s top infectious disease expert said the speed of transmissions driven by

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street fell as investors watched for signs of whether global central banks will try to cool inflation by speeding up plans to withdraw economic stimulus. Shanghai and Hong Kong declined. Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney advanced. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P

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 slurs on some episodes of his popular podcast are forcing the streaming service to weigh difficult choices. Experts say Spotify must decide where it stands on race relations and vaccine misinformation in

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Belarusian Association of Journalists says police have arrested a photographer who worked for US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The group said Sunday that Ulad Hrydzin had been taken to a pre-trial detention center in the capital Minsk, but that no information was available on charges against him. It also said

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli media reports say police have used sophisticated spyware against a key witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The revelations have jolted the trial and shine a light on a contentious Israeli-developed surveillance tool. Netanyahu’s lawyers have demanded answers

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 in its first weekend in theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. It not only exceeded expectations but also easily bested its other main competitors, the big budget sci-fi spectacle “Moonfall” and

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 say, is allowing it to remain a secret. A case in point was this week’s abrupt ouster of longtime CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker, who said he was ‘’wrong’’

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, DAVID McHUGH and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Fears are rising about what would happen to Europe’s energy supply if Russia were to invade Ukraine and then shut off its natural gas in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions. The tensions show the risk of Europe’s reliance on Russia

TORONTO (AP) — John Honderich, the former editor and publisher of the Toronto Star, has died. A Star spokesman said Honderich passed away in his Toronto home at the age of 75 on Saturday. The Canadian businessman was the publisher of the Star from 1994 to 2004. Honderich, whose father was the late Beland Honderich,

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify’s popular U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized after a video compilation surfaced that showed him using a racial slur in clips of episodes over a 12-year span. In a video posted on his Instagram account on Saturday, Rogan who hosts a podcast called “The

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 be among the first such transactions in the U.S. Non-fungible tokens — or NFTs — use a version of the encryption technology employed to secure cryptocurrencies to create

PARIS (AP) — EU and French authorities are investigating possible violation of fishing practices after environmental group Sea Shepherd released video and photos of a massive swarm of dead fish released by a huge trawler in the Atlantic Ocean. The images show a blanket of dead blue whiting fish floating on the surface of the

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 a disruption on board a flight should be put on the national “no fly” list. In a letter to the Justice Department dated Thursday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said there

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first to rely almost entirely on artificial snow for the skiing and snowboarding events. Such a massive snowmaking operation comes with environmental concerns given the huge amounts of water and electricity it takes.

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 many conservative social media users to join new platforms that claim to offer a refuge from overzealous content moderation. A year later, so-called alt-tech platforms like Gab, Parler and Gettr

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former executive director of a surgical center who helped her physician husband bilk insurance companies of $44 million for cosmetic procedures billed as “medically necessary” has pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Linda Morrow also pleaded guilty to contempt for fleeing the country after she

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 pleasant surprise Friday — that the U.S. economy had powered through the omicron wave of the coronavirus and posted 467,000 new jobs in January. The figures showed just how

The Associated Press Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The stronger-than-expected data seems to lock in the Fed’s pivot toward fighting inflation by

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

By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Renewed legal challenges have been mounted in about half the states against a requirement from President Joe Biden’s administration for health workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate for health providers that participate in Medicare or Medicaid took effect after the Supreme Court allowed it

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California gas utility must pay a nearly $10 million fine and reimburse customers for money it improperly spent related to the development of more energy efficient building codes. The penalties that Southern California Gas Co. faces were issued Thursday by the California Public Utilities

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fine art isn’t just nice to look at. It’s also attractive to criminals trying to launder money, finance terrorism and trade illegal drugs and arms. And the Treasury Department wants art dealers and financiers to do something about that. The agency issued a report Friday recommending that

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the western Colorado ranch owned by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at first asked her where the billionaire’s daughters were and later went on rants about Bloomberg, saying he wanted to “make an international scene”

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will begin offering limited Saturday walk-in help for taxpayers this tax season. Walk-in visits will be offered at 35 tax assistance centers around the country beginning the weekend of Feb. 12. Other Saturday help days will be March 12, April 9 and May 14. This

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration says the mineral rights under the original Missouri River riverbed belong to a North Dakota tribal nation. The 68-page memorandum posted Friday by the U.S. Department of Interior is contrary to a May 2020 Trump administration opinion concluding that

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has continued its endorsement of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. adults. The decision will have little practical effect. Tens of millions of Americans have already gotten Moderna shots, following an emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration

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 cases in January, the labor market is so healthy that employers kept hiring last month at a pace that far surpassed anyone’s expectations. Before Friday, the widespread view was

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 four weeks of taking mobile bets. The Empire State blew past New Jersey in January to seize the market lead, taking over $1.6 billion worth of sports bets. That’s $300

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election spurred on by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud has spawned several court cases as it expands, grows in cost and shows signs it will drag well into 2022. The state Supreme Court has, for

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on five senior members of Mali’s transitional government, including Prime Minister Choguel Maiga. The bloc accuses them of working to obstruct and undermine the transition from military to civilian rule. Others hit Friday by the EU’s asset freezes and travel bans

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has extended tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on most solar panels imported from China and other countries. But in a nod to his efforts to combat climate change and boost clean energy, Biden excluded tariffs on some panels used in large-scale utility

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked, with data stolen from journalists and other employees. The cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion, Mandiant, says Chinese intelligence-gathering is believed to be behind the operation. The Journal reported that people briefed on

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to convince their peers for the second time to unionize their warehouse. The union election starts Friday by secret ballot.

BERLIN (AP) — Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom says German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been nominated to join its board of directors. The move comes as the former leader has faced criticism for accusing Ukraine of “saber-rattling” during its standoff with Russia. Schroeder, who led Germany from 1998 to 2005, developed a close relationship with

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s says that recent offers to purchase the department store chain undervalue its business. It says it is adopting a shareholder rights plan to head off any hostile takeovers. The shareholder rights plan is effective immediately and expires in a year. The move comes as

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered. The move comes amid a conflict over the flower and a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration’s plans

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos faces a delivery problem: It may require dismantling a beloved, historic bridge in Rotterdam that is blocking its passage to the sea. Reports this week that the Dutch city had

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has suspended an order by Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister to halt border checks on goods from the rest of the U.K. that were imposed under the Brexit agreement struck between the U.K. and the European Union. High Court judge Adrian Colton made the interim order

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is ready to take effect, but the sense of urgency that accompanied its announcement in November has largely evaporated. Few other countries look likely to go as far as Austria as attention

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to get a grip on his government after weeks of scandal. But now he is struggling to hang on after a scathing report on lockdown-breaching parties and the departure of several top aides. Five staff have left Johnson’s office, including key

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from the end of February. The deal announced Friday settles a 10-year trade dispute. Trade in live mollusks between the EU and the U.S. had stopped in 2011 due to a divide in regulatory

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 is making medical marijuana much more available now. As of late last month, clinicians can greenlight medicinal pot for any condition they think it would help, not just for a

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has received the backing of his Chinese counterpart amid fears in the West that Moscow is preparing for military action against Ukraine. Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Friday.

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s next central bank governor will be NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. His tenure at NATO ends later this year. Norway’s government announced his appointment at the central bank in a statement Friday and said it hopes he can start in his new role around Dec.

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Google is joining Ford Motor Co.’s effort to transform a once-dilapidated Detroit train station into a research hub focused on electric and self-driving vehicles. Ford also announced Friday that Detroit and the state of Michigan have agreed to provide infrastructure and other support for

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has celebrated its Independence Day with an appeal by the president to the country’s expatriates to send money home as it struggles with the worst economic crisis in decades mainly due to depleted foreign reserves. Sri Lankans are facing shortages of milk powder,

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 400-meter (1,310-foot) -long Mumbai Maersk ran aground Wednesday night near the island of Wangerooge, on the approach to the port of Bremerhaven. Rescuers waited for a high

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A planned $3.4 billion coal-fired power plant in Dubai instead will be converted to use natural gas. That’s according to a statement Thursday by the sheikhdom. The conversion comes amid the United Arab Emirates’ wider pledge to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The statement offered no details on

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 Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprising burst of hiring, America’s employers added 467,000 jobs in January in a sign of the economy’s resilience even in the face of a wave of omicron infections last month. The government’s report also drastically revised up its estimate of job gains for November

By DAVID SHARP, KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to drop Friday evening as a major winter storm turned already slippery roads and sidewalks into ice-covered hazards. The storm that already cut electric power to about 350,000 homes and businesses from Texas

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Investors are snapping up Snap Inc. after the owner of the disappearing message platform Snapchat surprised Wall Street by reporting a quarterly profit for the first time. The stock jump comes after Facebook parent Meta saw its worst one-day stock price decline in history. It shows that while internet

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has announced the creation of a new Cyber Safety Review Board that will have public and private sector experts examine significant hacking incidents and recommend improvements. The new board is modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, which reviews plane crashes and other major accidents, and was

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 evict certain families from their homes. The Seattle Times reports the unusual announcement by the U.N.’s special rapporteurs on adequate housing and the rights of Indigenous peoples is the most recent

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 some prominent employees feeling angry and uncertain about the direction of their network at a pivotal moment. The company is about to undergo a corporate ownership change, launch a

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, abruptly ending a four-day winning streak for the market. The wipeout in Meta Platforms, as Facebook’s owner is now known, erased more than $230 billion in market value, easily the biggest

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

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 profit last year. That came even as the company battled computer chip shortages that caused factory slowdowns and low inventories on dealer lots. U.S. sales for the Dearborn,

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s profits in the fourth quarter nearly doubled, beating analysts’ expectations. This came even as the online behemoth contends with surging costs tied to a snarled supply chain and labor shortages. The Seattle-based company also raised its annual prime membership fee to $139 per year

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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 manufacturer and three distributors won’t come quickly. But tribal leaders say it will play a part in healing their communities from an epidemic that has disproportionately killed Native Americans.

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish parliament has ratified by a single, mistaken vote a landmark labor reform devised by the country’s Socialist-led coalition government. At the end of a messy ballot, the main party in the conservative opposition said that one of its deputies had erroneously voted in favor of the reform. Nine smaller parties

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A congressional committee is looking into the controversy over the launch of new high-speed wireless service and whether it poses any threat to airline safety. A House committee on Thursday heard testimony from the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, airline groups and a trade group for telecommunications companies.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Workers at a General Motors assembly plant in northern Mexico have voted for a new independent union to represent them after ousting an old guard union last year. The vote among the roughly 6,500 employees of GM transmission and pickup plants in the northern Mexico city of Silao was a major

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says people with Medicare will be able to get up to eight free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests per month, starting in early spring. It’s seeking to fill a frustrating gap in coverage for coronavirus tests. Last month, the administration directed private insurers to cover rapid

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The United States has delivered two Black Hawk helicopters to Croatia, which is engaged in a mini arms race with neighboring Russian ally Serbia amid simmering tensions in the post-war Balkan region. The U.S. Embassy in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, said Thursday the donated UH-60M multi-purpose helicopters will contribute to Croatia’s growing