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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has fired the head of the Turkish Statistical Institute, which is responsible for posting official inflation…

By MARK PRATT and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — More than 2 feet of snow has fallen in some areas of the northeastern U.S. amid a…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Some shuffling among owners has some Las Vegas Strip properties destined in coming months for rebranding, demolition,…

By CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says that El Salvador should dissolve the $150 million trust…

The Associated Press A turbulent week for markets ended with a late burst of buying Friday, breaking a three-week losing streak and giving major…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Visa, Atlassian rise; Mondelez, Western Digital…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners are shutting down gray wolf hunting and trapping in areas…

HONOLULU (AP) — Federal officials say a yearling humpback whale off Maui has been freed from a life-threatening entanglement in mooring gear and a…

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

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s price tag for landing Intel’s new computer chipmaking…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has an opportunity for a reset on climate policy after a federal judge…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Finland’s government says the mobile devices of Finnish diplomats working abroad have been…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A federal appeals court has upheld California’s net neutrality law, rejecting an attempt by telecom…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Government officials and diplomats from the world’s most climate-polluting nations are grappling…

ROME (AP) — An Italian lawyer for Venezuela’s former oil czar says Italy’s highest court has confirmed he can’t be extradited to face…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hoping to buy a home that fits your needs and budget in the next few weeks? You might want to…

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Some residents think a northern Alabama city’s new logo might be sending the wrong message. When Florence unveiled its new…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Concern about new high-speed wireless service interfering with airplanes appears to be easing. Federal safety…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Southern California officials say they’re getting ready to start critical repairs to the Queen Mary historic ship…

By DAVID A. LIEB and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press State and local governments reported more than $117 billion of revenue losses in the first year…

DETROIT (AP) — Kia is recalling more than 410,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix a problem that can stop the air bags from inflating in a crash. The…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has signed a contract to sell a luxury London building that is at the heart of a fraud…

MILAN (AP) — UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel says the Italian bank has decided not to pursue a possible takeover bid for Russian bank Otkritie due to…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina says it has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to refinance more than $40 billion…

VIENNA (AP) — Austria will subsidize household energy costs with a $1.9-billion relief package to offset rising prices. Chancellor Karl Nehammer…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 5.8% last…

LONDON (AP) — Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against a British businessmen it accused of fraud after…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — Moves by carmaker Stellantis to consolidate its position in fast-growing China seem to be off to a…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — High-stakes diplomacy continues to try to avert a war in Eastern Europe. The urgent efforts…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Caterpillar’s sales surged in the final quarter of the year despite ongoing disruptions in the global supply…

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s economy grew by 6.4% last year after activity weakened as anti-coronavirus controls were tightened. Government data…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that the German economy shrank by 0.7% in last year’s fourth quarter amid a resurgence in coronavirus…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The International Labor Organization says about 1.6 million jobs were lost in Myanmar in…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish low-cost fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz AB says its net sales in local currencies have increased by 8% in the fourth…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s AirAsia Group has changed the name of its listed holding company to Capital A to reflect the diversity…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German exports to the U.K. dropped another 2.5% last year, the first full year of Brexit, following a huge…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Marcelo Claure, who joined SoftBank Group after turning around one of its key investments,…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Google plans to invest up to $1 billion in partnership with India’s Airtel for providing affordable access to smartphones to…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to add hundreds of small neighborhood hospitals and clinics to treat…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Chinese language school in northern Iraq is attracting students who hope to land jobs with a…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge won’t rein in the roundup and capture of wild horses in eastern Nevada —…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A turbulent week for markets ended with a late burst of buying, breaking a three-week losing…

BEIJING (AP) — The Beijing Winter Olympics is tapping into and encouraging growing interest among Chinese in skiing, skating, hockey and other…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it’s working with Japan’s space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Alden Global Capital hedge fund is sending its own appeal to shareholders of newspaper…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa’s fiscal first-quarter profits rose 27%, as improving economies worldwide as well as more…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple shook off supply shortages that have curtailed production of iPhones and…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Growth keeps slowing for Robinhood Markets, the upstart company that upended the brokerage…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: ServiceNow, Levi Strauss rise; Tesla, Intel…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Family members of women in a sober living group home who were killed and injured in a fiery…

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

By ERICA HUNZINGER AP Sports Writer It is a man’s world six months after the NCAA cleared the way for college athletes to earn money on their…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study has found that gas stoves are worse for the climate than previously thought. The study by California…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The name Kim Jones dominated Paris fashion for a second week running as the indefatigable Briton…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal labor officials say Amazon workers have lined up enough support to vote on whether to…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Pay raises for teachers, firefighters, corrections officers and other employees have…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a news media coalition’s request for public access to records…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and five central Asian countries have decided to set up a joint working group for providing…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended that Pfizer’s coronavirus antiviral drug be authorized for use in the 27-nation…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Altria said Thursday that its heat-not-burn cigarette, iQOS, probably won’t be back in U.S.…

ROME (AP) — Lawmakers and regional representatives have failed again to find consensus on a new Italian president. That’s even after the…

LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have approved Facebook parent Meta’s purchase of customer service startup Kustomer, after the social…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press CHERAN, Mexico (AP) — Regular citizens have taken the fight against illegal logging into their own hands in the…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The headline in the little newspaper said COVID-19 numbers were spiking in the farm towns of…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The headline in the little newspaper said COVID-19 numbers were spiking in the farm towns of…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week following three straight increases…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan’s presidency,…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nearly 1,500 people died of malnutrition in just part of Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says 14.5 million Americans got private health insurance for this…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United States and NATO have made no concessions to the main Russian demands to resolve…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Thanks to strong passenger traffic over the winter holidays, Southwest Airlines is reporting a $68…

By BEV O’SHEA of NerdWallet Getting and maintaining good credit can feel like a long, hard journey. It’s not always easy to understand why…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ energy minister says the European Union has earmarked 657 million euros…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is pledging to tackle a rising U.S. epidemic of car…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Deutsche Bank says it reaped its best annual profit in 10 years last year.…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The finance model for the Winter Olympics calls for the host country to spend several billion…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Australia’s Woodside Petroleum says it is withdrawing from projects in strife-torn…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A regulatory body in Dubai is seeking to fine the Pakistani-born founder of…

By RAF CASERT and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it’s launched action against China at world trade’s…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed as traders look ahead to data on U.S. employment costs that might…

TOKYO (AP) — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement to participate in a next-generation nuclear…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. says its operating profit for the last quarter rose by more than 53% from the same period last…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Navy commander admitted in federal court in San Diego to sending a Malaysian defense contractor classified ship schedules…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Most coronavirus restrictions, including mandatory face masks, have been lifted in England after…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general wants to put a stop to former President Donald Trump’s…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Senate says it was the target of a cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and…