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

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, U.S. employers might have shed jobs for the first time in about a year,…

The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling nearly 202,000 Ram heavy-duty pickups and chassis cabs to tighten a loose nut that can…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A key nominee to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors has said in testimony…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has increased its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point in an effort to tackle soaring…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again offered to mediate between Russia and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — At least two energy companies in the Belgian ports of Antwerp and Ghent have been hit by cyberattacks and Belgian authorities have…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits for the second week in a row after three…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Biogen expects “minimal” revenue this year from its Alzheimer’s treatment initially hailed as potentially a…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda pushed Merck past fourth-quarter expectations, and the drugmaker’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s first minister has resigned as tensions over Britain’s departure from the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s energy regulator says a cap on energy prices is going up by a record 54% because of…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.S. has obtained intelligence indicating that the Russian government has…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a container ship has run aground off a German North Sea island, and an initial attempt to free it was unsuccessful.…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling more than 817,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the seat belt reminder chimes may…

HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has reported profits in line with analyst expectations and says the wireless and fixed-network equipment maker will resume…

COPENHAGEN (AP) — The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says the continent is now entering a “plausible endgame” to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s annual inflation came in at nearly 49%, hitting a nearly 20-year high and further eroding people’s ability to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden is joining other European nations in saying it will drop coronavirus restrictions. Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson says…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says record inflation could linger for “longer…

By SYLVIE CORBET and LORNE COOK The Associated Press LILLE, France (AP) — European Union interior ministers have agreed to create a new…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — American and European officials may be staying away from the Beijing Winter Olympics because…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil and gas company has announced the discovery of…

LONDON (AP) — The pay-TV sports market in Britain could be shaken up after media companies Discovery and BT Group said they are in exclusive…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the second time in three months. That decision…

By AAMER MADHANI, LORNE COOK and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is accusing the Kremlin of an elaborate plot to fabricate…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo has reported its profit for the nine months through December slipped 2.5% as shortages of…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press SAINT-SYMPHORIEN, Belgium (AP) — Many European Union nations are wary about spending big on their militaries. They…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher after a historic plunge in the stock price of…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has approved a $1 billion loan as part of a bailout package to Pakistan, following reforms to rein…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The largest natural lake west of the Mississippi is shrinking past its lowest levels…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of foreigners have been denied entry to study, work or visit families in…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A maritime intelligence company whose data is used by the U.S. government to investigate sanctions…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A major winter storm has left about 350,000 homes and businesses without power…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. Navy captain has pleaded guilty to bribery for accepting nearly $68,000 worth of dinners, hotels, parties and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he will create a state-owned company to mine lithium and appears to suggest he will seek to cancel one…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government will end its quarantine requirements for incoming…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its huge fleet of…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three federal agencies have promised to help modernize Puerto Rico’s outage-plagued…

After the holidays, it’s normal for the nationwide supply of life-saving blood to dwindle at hospitals and blood banks as donations slow. But this…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge in after-hours trading…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Wednesday, putting major indexes on track to extend their weekly gains. Big communications…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Alphabet, Brinker International rise; PayPal, Gilead…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The travel industry is lobbying Washington for changes it thinks will get more people on airplanes…

By FRANK BAJAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group’s powerful spyware tool Pegasus,…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has been launched into space…

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

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister has ordered a halt to post-Brexit border checks at ports.…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans looking to start their own business is on the rise, as the coronavirus…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general has upheld the Shin Bet security agency’s use of mobile-phone…

By BRIAN WITTE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Soaring tax revenue and billions in pandemic aid from the federal…

PARIS (AP) — France says it will start administering Pfizer’s coronavirus antiviral drug this week, the first pill for treating COVID-19 approved…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN President Jeff Zucker has abruptly resigned after acknowledging a consensual relationship with…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors say they are launching a criminal investigation into Tata Steel Ijmuiden over alleged pollution…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines is planning to order more Boeing Max jets while delaying delivery of larger Boeing Dreamliners. The…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A new report says that the legions of workers who built Dubai’s vast Expo…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s government has agreed to end mandatory coronavirus testing at schools and companies this month. Prime Minister…

BERLIN (AP) — A German media regulator has ruled that Russian state broadcaster RT must cease broadcasting its German-language programs in the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian appeals court has definitively annulled the pre-trial arrest warrant for the prime…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission wants to include nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The Toyota Tundra soldiered on without a redesign for too long, and now that it’s finally happened, is the truck ready to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has set out plans for a huge shift in power and wealth to left-behind regions…

By ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet When planning a remodeling project, one of the first questions you may ask is whether you can save money and just…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press Many countries that have been especially hard-hit by the coronavirus are easing their tough and often unpopular…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation fed by high oil and gas prices hit record levels in Europe for the third month…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American farmer is jailed in Ukraine on charges he attempted to assassinate a former business…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major oil-producing countries are adding just a bit more oil to the global economy.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony says its profit for the quarter through December rose 11% on healthy sales from its film…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The prison sentence imposed a year ago on leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was a severe blow…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — A number of former Israeli leaders and security chiefs have found new careers in the…

By INDRAJIT SINGH Associated Press PATNA, India (AP) — Police say at least five people were killed when an abandoned coal mine in eastern India…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia, with markets in China still closed for Lunar New Year holidays.…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A winter storm is bringing a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States, with heavy…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Professional sports teams and gambling companies in the U.S. are increasingly bringing…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF’s two largest unions are raising concerns about a new attendance policy that went…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Groups representing about 100,000 ride-share drivers and food delivery workers in and near…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google’s digital advertising empire turned in another strong performance during…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This past weekend’s Janet Jackson documentary was the most popular non-fiction show on…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks had a strong holiday season in the U.S., but those results were offset by higher labor and commodity…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The Jewish Federations of North America, or JFNA, is working to bolster security across Jewish communities. The…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer The Department of Interior is spending $1.15 billion to create jobs across the United States by capping abandoned…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday, getting February off to a decent start after a miserable January. The S&P 500,…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors increased its net income 56% last year, helped by higher prices for its vehicles that…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: UPS, Gannett rise; AT&T, Pitney Bowes…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and members of New Mexico’s congressional…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A hydrogen fuel cell and transportation company says it plans to move its global headquarters…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country is speeding up the rollout of a “new…

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

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An Iran-flagged supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of condensate has…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lobbied for a higher volume of Russian natural gas…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Autonomous vehicle taxis are up and running in San Francisco and the public has been invited to try one out.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s central bank says the money migrants send home to their relatives grew 27.1% in 2021, totaling $51.6 billion. That is…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem is dead, its assets…