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By GEOFF MULVIHILL and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin says that President Joe Biden’s vast social and environment bill is “dead.”…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press With a settlement possibly near, a judge is giving the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma 16 more…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A central Montana coal mine has been fined $1 million for failing to report worker injuries and improperly disposing of mine…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Workers at a GM plant in northern Mexico are voting  on whether to form one of the first…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has reported that U.S. traffic deaths surged in the first nine months of 2021 to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers stepped up their search for workers in December despite the looming…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government is restricting the use of some reservoirs for hydroelectric power and irrigation amid an unusual…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Exxon Mobil returned to a profit in its fourth quarter as demand for oil continues to improve. The oil and…

LONDON (AP) — British supermarket chain Tesco has warned that more than 1,600 workers are at risk of losing their jobs because of changes to its…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Crystal Cruises has cut short the itinerary of a second ship and offloaded its passengers…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda and a group of investors have announced their decision to finally proceed with…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national railway operator will buy 43 new high-speed trains from Siemens for 1.5 billion euros. The companies announced…

By AMRITA JAYAKUMAR of NerdWallet Thanks to the Great Resignation that began in 2021, when a record number of Americans quit or changed jobs,…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German beer sales dropped another 2.2% last year, with the coronavirus pandemic again weighing on brewers…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 vehicles because their “Full Self-Driving” software lets them…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has bought himself some breathing space with an apology for…

BERLIN (AP) — Two companies involved in storing and supplying oil and other materials say they have been hit by a cyberattack that has impacted…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the U.S. and its allies of…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is scraping most pandemic restrictions as the country no longer considers…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has included hefty spending on infrastructure…

BERLIN (AP) — A proposed takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic by Taiwan’s GlobalWafers has fallen through after the German government…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Stock prices in Tokyo and Sydney have followed Wall Street higher while China, South Korea and…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The chief of ExxonMobil’s Cyprus arm says natural gas will remain an important…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Some people in Ukraine’s second-largest city are preparing to…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that blamed overwork and harassment for the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia’s government says it will spend more than $1 billion on converting…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says the threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Angi, Moderna rise; L3Harris Technologies, Kellogg…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company,…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill that would have created the nation’s only universal health care system has…

By DAVID RISING and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — People across Asia prepared Monday for muted Lunar New Year celebrations amid…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times has has bought Wordle, the free online word game that has exploded in popularity and, for some, become a daily…

By DAVID BAUDER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young’s protest against Spotify over podcaster Joe Rogan…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s more than half-million fast food workers would get increased power and…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican New Mexico legislator wants movie actors and other film-set professionals to…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing fresh criticism for his decision to shed his face…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Some of Tesla’s loyal band of devotees and CEO Elon Musk say the White House has been unfairly…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The government of El Salvador has rejected a recommendation by the International Monetary Fund to drop Bitcoin as…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed higher Monday, but still logged its worst monthly loss since the early days of the pandemic. The market…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lockheed Martin Corp. says it will seek to build new aerial refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force.…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of a Trump-era action, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities say pharmaceutical distributor Cardinal Health Inc. has agreed to pay more than $13 million to resolve…

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

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is moving to dismantle the nation’s largest death row by…

NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil is restructuring its business into three divisions and moving its headquarters from Irving, Texas. to its campus north…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing says it has landed a huge new order for planes from Middle Eastern carrier Qatar Airways. Boeing said…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti has wavered on whether he plans to take the witness stand in his own defense at a…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has laid out new guidelines for the disbursal…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar have arrested dozens of people to preemptively suppress plans for a…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A group of about 130 former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees and others who…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer When Bridgid Coulter Cheadle started her search for a new Los Angeles office space for her interior design…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s economy entered a technical recession at the end of last year with two consecutive quarters of contraction.…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The increasing threat of sea-level rise on Virginia’s coast means that an afternoon rainstorm…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Many Americans — some traditionally religious, some religiously unaffiliated — are increasingly finding a…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A landslide election victory has opened the door for Portugal’s Socialists to start…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — An Amnesty International delegation is in Malta this week. They’re calling…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is slapping sanctions on top members of Myanmar’s judiciary and one of its main revenue-producing…

ROME (AP) — Italian police say dozens of businessmen are accused of cheating the government out of 440 million euros in tax credits that were…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging U.S. governors to ramp up their construction plans as his…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Affiliates of investment firms Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital are taking cloud computing…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Among the biggest challenges to transforming automobiles from combustion engines to electricity to…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian capital has started offering a domestically developed coronavirus vaccine to children…

BERLIN (AP) — The number of air passengers in Germany rebounded somewhat last year but was still two-thirds below levels seen before the…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Adult children typically don’t have to pay their deceased parents’ bills, but if the amounts owed are more than what…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized for lockdown-flouting parties at 10 Downing St.…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch coast guard says rescue helicopters have evacuated all 18 crew members from…

MILAN (AP) — Dolce&Gabbana says it will drop the use of animal fur in all its collections starting this year, and transition to eco-friendly…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro slowed down at the end of last…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economy is projected to grow 8% to 8.5% in the financial year beginning April 1,…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A top Hong Kong official has resigned after he attended a birthday party with 200 guests, at least one…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have advanced, mirroring broad overnight gains on Wall Street. Trading in China and…

The Associated Press The Commerce Department serves up its monthly snapshot of U.S. construction spending Tuesday. Facebook’s parent company Meta…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally, a largely symbolic honor…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Cybersecurity experts say that ransomware attacks on K-12 schools…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks have followed Wall Street higher at the start of a week when China, South Korea and…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify said Sunday that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the coronavirus.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On a chillingly quiet weekend at movie theaters, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” again topped the box…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of people have rallied in Serbia to draw attention to the country’s high air pollution and demand that…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Patients worried about getting hit with an unexpected bill after emergency care have a new layer of protection. The No…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A powerful winter storm has swept through northern Europe over the weekend. At least four people…

By JIM HEINTZ and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is working to ramp up diplomatic and financial pressure on Russia…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press RAYONG, Thailand (AP) — Favorable wind and sea conditions are keeping an oil slick away from beaches in eastern…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French left is running divided and weakened ahead of this year’s presidential vote in…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s center-left Socialist Party has won a third straight general election,…

By JILL LAWLESS and JO KEARNEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Bad news for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been good news for political…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and U.S officials have threatened Russia with financial sanctions carrying…

By MARK PRATT and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The sun was shining on much of the East Coast on Sunday, a day after a vicious…

BEIJING (AP) — An official measure of manufacturing activity in China showed weaker growth in January while a private survey showed a contraction…

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Seven people have been hospitalized in critical condition Saturday after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at a…

VIENNA (AP) — Germany’s Greens party has elected a new leadership team that has vowed to continue fighting for the party’s core issues,…

BANGKOK (AP) — The governor of a province in eastern Thailand has declared a state of emergency after an oil slick washed up on a sand beach,…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A 50-year-old bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh had been rated as poor on a recent inspection report. But…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly empowered Republican lawmakers in Virginia who opposed legalizing simple possession of…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Hundreds of people have protested in Amsterdam in a #MeToo demonstration sparked by allegations of sexual impropriety linked to a…