AP National Business

By JOHN SEEWER and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Chipmaker Intel says it will invest $20 billion to build a factory…

BEIJING (AP) — China has criticized Washington for imposing sanctions on Chinese companies accused of exporting missile technology, and accused the…

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Total Energies and Chevron, two of the world’s largest energy companies, are planning to exit…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire broke out early in Kuwait at a petrochemical site, forcing a suspension of export operations. The Kuwait…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is poised to elect a new president, a figure who is supposed to serve as the…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks fell again on Wall Street Friday, capping off the worst weekly drop for the S&P 500 since the start…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal appeals court will have to decide whether protecting historical tribal lands and a…

The shortage of parts caused by the coronavirus pandemic is further denting production at Toyota, Japan’s top…

By JON GAMBRELL and MAAD AL-ZIKRY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition airstrike targeting a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Restaurants and bars will close early in Tokyo and a dozen other areas across Japan beginning…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. crash investigators want the government to require owners of small planes to install carbon monoxide detectors. The National…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton’s shares tumbled on Thursday after a media report said the exercise and…

By The Associated Press New 5G wireless service is up and running in the United States, with little of the feared disruption to air travel. Some…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators have given a key approval to a $10 billion project to build a new train tunnel…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX railroad’s fourth-quarter profit jumped 23% even though volume slipped amid the ongoing…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court has found that two California counties violated the…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix delivered its latest quarter of disappointing subscriber growth during the…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Alcoa, Casper rise; Regions Financial, Clorox…

The Associated Press Stocks fell again on Wall Street Thursday as technology stocks sold off in the afternoon, pushing the Nasdaq further into…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two organizations that influence many Americans’ automobile buying decisions will begin rating…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to convert his first paycheck this week…

WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — A judge has denied a request to stop a county from buying land for a planned spaceport near the Georgia coast, dealing the…

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies has asked the American and French governments to support…

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

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Trying to defuse large protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s populist government…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve released a highly anticipated report on central bank digital…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a second case against an activist who exposed what many viewed as the inhumane killing of hundreds…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates continued to rise this week. The rate on the benchmark 30-year loan breached 3.5%. Home…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court has narrowly upheld an $18 million fine against an association of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press President Joe Biden is paying a steep price for high inflation. It’s a problem that festered during his first…

BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says talks with Iran over its nuclear program are at a “decisive moment.” He has warned…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s embattled government has called for an early election to be held in…

By The Associated Press An American Airlines flight to London has turned around and returned to Miami after a woman on the plane refused to wear a…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is expanding sales of its meatless McPlant burger to hundreds of locations. The company said the…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand, which in 2020 became the first Southeast Asian nation to decriminalize the…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Retail sales took an unexpected dip in December in what could be a signal that persistently rising inflation…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of previously occupied homes fell in December for the first time in four months…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s leader says the country holding the presidency of the Group of 20…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific hauled in 24% more profit in the fourth quarter even though supply chain problems…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union is ordering Poland to pay a fine of nearly 70 million euros ($80 million)…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Team USA’s opening ceremony uniforms for the Beijing Olympics include some sneaky new warming…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s president says parliamentary election in Slovenia will be held on April 24. The vote will test the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is reporting a $931 million loss for the fourth quarter and warning that omicron…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawmaker from Britain’s governing Conservatives has accused the government of blackmailing…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has paid $500 million due on sovereign bonds from its badly depleted…

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Paying for gifts, travel, entertaining and other holiday expenses has caused many of us to start off the new year in…

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed group says it has signed agreements with more than two dozen generic drug makers to produce versions of Merck’s…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has kept a key interest rate unchanged, halting a string of rate cuts that triggered a currency…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general says he is launching an investigation into the police’s use of phone surveillance technology…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union lawmakers have approved proposed rules that would require online companies to ramp…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has announced sweeping naval drills in several parts of the world this month, and…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister expects the number of coronavirus infections in the country to keep rising for several weeks reaching…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has signed a three billion euro ($3.4 billion) deal to buy three cutting edge submarines from Germany, the defense ministry…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-haul carrier Emirates says it will resume its Boeing 777 flights to the…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — First, Amazon competed with malls. Now, it’s moving inside one. The online retailing…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s exports and imports both reached record highs in December, largely because of surging…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares have declined after a late-afternoon sell-off wiped out gains for stocks on…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps will spend $732 million to expand a congested lock and dam in Missouri.…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Viewers parked themselves in front of their televisions to watch football and stay out of the…

GENEVA (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal,…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ attorney general is suing Google, alleging the company asked radio DJs to record personal endorsements for…

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines lost $646 million in the last three months of 2021, and the new year doesn’t look too good either. United said…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to begin talks on removing former…

The Associated Press Stocks continued to fall on Wall Street Wednesday as investors review the latest corporate earnings and prepare for higher…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Ford, US Bancorp fall; Bank of America, Tegna…

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

By ADEL OMRAN Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The head of Libya’s national oil company has said that his country will try to keep oil…

By AYA BATRAWY and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A United Arab Emirates ambassador says Yemen’s Houthi…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is finding new markets for its hydrogen fuel cell systems. The automaker announced Wednesday that it will work with…

LONDON (AP) — Unilever, the maker of Vaseline skin care products and Dove soap, says it won’t increase a 50 billion-pound ($68.2 billion) offer…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fraudulently collecting more than $1.3 million in COVID-19 relief funds has been sentenced to five…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF railroad wants a federal judge to prevent two of its unions from going on strike next month…

ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont community is asking the U.S. Postal Service to renew a contract with a local store to retain an outpost where people…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Developers say construction will soon begin on the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project to…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, people across the U.S. can log on to a government…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is no longer requiring its U.S. workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, reversing a plan it…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has raised 3 billion euros in a 10-year bond auction that helps boost its budget following its yearslong economic…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida is on pace to produce the smallest crop of oranges in more than 75 years. A forecast released last week says the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A court in Ukraine has rejected a motion by the prosecutors to remand former President…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Five philanthropies have announced plans to spend more than $20 million to bolster news coverage in Houston,…

By MATT O’BRIEN and TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writers Microsoft stunned the gaming industry when it announced this week it would buy game…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told a gathering of America’s mayors the Biden…

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America CRAIG, Colorado (AP) — Craig, a small town in northwest Colorado is losing its coal plant, and…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Investment bank Morgan Stanley says its fourth-quarter profits rose 9% from a year ago, helped by a…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s doctors and medical workers fear the country’s health care system may…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling about 200,000 cars in the U.S. to fix a problem that can stop the brake lights from turning off. The recall covers…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for a “paradigm shift” in the way the world…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union is preparing to deduct millions of euros from payments to Poland in order to cover fines imposed on Warsaw…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York attorney general’s office says its civil investigation has uncovered evidence…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Construction of new homes in the U.S. rose for the third consecutive month in December and…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America says its profits rose 28% last quarter from a year earlier, but the bank faced the…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press The Biden administration has announced the release of $14 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers to fund 500 projects…