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CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials say an Eastern Shore mayor has been charged with distributing revenge porn. The Office of the State…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-based U.S. Navy flight officer has been convicted of buying guns for a Chinese businessman who was later…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A private California port terminal that handles and stores coal from Utah before…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s prosecuting attorney won’t seek a third trial against a federal…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A new report says misinformation is hurting efforts to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, be it…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Amazon has agreed to pay $500,000 and be monitored by California officials to ensure it…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Dollar Tree, CyrusOne rise; Splunk, Take-Two…

The Associated Press Major indexes ended a wobbly day mostly lower on Wall Street as the market comes off its first weekly loss in six weeks. The…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Film industry crew members have narrowly voted to approve a pair of contracts with…

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

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer As the biggest cryptocurrencies flirt with record highs in value, they are increasingly becoming bigger sources…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Kentucky have ended their case against four former coal company…

Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-based company that owns the Firehouse Subs chain is in contract to be purchased by a Canadian…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal safety regulators reach an agreement with Smithfield Foods to settle a…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Health care costs rise every year, but the nation’s biggest employers still see insurance coverage as an important…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior says oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of…

By TOM KRISHER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — Take a step back from the picked-over store shelves, the stalled container ships…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Energy ministers from across the developing world gathered in the emirate of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015…

NEW YORK (AP) — The e-commerce mattress maker Casper is being acquired and taken private for about $308 million. Shares of Casper Sleep Inc. spiked…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s opulent hotel near the White House that drew lobbyists and diplomats seeking favor with the…

CyrusOne is being acquired for $11.5 billion, the second big sale in recent months of a real estate investment trust focused on data centers. In…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has banned travelers from several Middle Eastern countries from…

By LIZ WESTON OF NerdWallet Before you bring up money at a holiday gathering, family and caregiving experts recommend researching options so you can…

By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell proposed moving its headquarters from the Netherlands to the…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airbus has clinched a major deal valued into the billions of dollars to sell…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on…

The Associated Press Tyson Foods reports fourth-quarter results Monday. Walmart reports third-quarter results on Tuesday. Victoria’s Secret…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to launch talks aimed at settling a dispute over American…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers two weeks earlier…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are higher as President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping hold a summit…

By JOSH BOAK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised advocates, and even many of her Democratic…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has taken the state’s case against the nation’s three…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A stock exchange set up in the Chinese capital to serve entrepreneurs has opened trading with 81…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy shrank at a 3% annual rate in the July-September quarter, as private consumption…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has chosen a former New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to supervise his $1…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — While world leaders hail the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser is expressing confidence the White House’s $1.85…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow as a “game-changing agreement” that sounded…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver and founder of a high-performance driving school that taught many…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas TV station reports that troopers investigating a crash that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Disney and Marvel’s “Eternals” fell 61% in its second weekend in theaters, but it’s still hanging on to first…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa was not happy with a last-minute fight over coal…

By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure…

By AYA BATRAWY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s biennial Air Show has opened to a world still reeling…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Air pollution in the Indian capital has hit dangerous levels again this winter, as thick, gray…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The military takeover in Myanmar has set its economy back years, if not decades, as political unrest and…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — After two years of preparation and 13 days of tough talks, did negotiators at the U.N.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An alliance of unions representing 50,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in California, Oregon and six other states called off a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Deere & Co. and union officials have reached a third preliminary contract agreement that workers who began striking…

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Nearly two years after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Carnival Cruise Lines is restarting operations in Mobile. Al.com…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fire at a gasoline storage at the largest oil refinery on Indonesia’s Java island near Jakarta has prompted the…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and TALI ARBEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s been a bear of a year for Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have declined to renew a visa for a foreign journalist working for The Economist without any explanation.…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Almost 200 nations have accepted a compromise deal aimed at keeping…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For one day at least, everyone with power over Britney Spears was in agreement. She…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into a complaint from a Tesla driver that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is telling nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s largest electric provider and global energy giant Iberdrola say they’re committed to customer…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday, but every major index still marked its first weekly loss in six weeks. Technology…

NEW YORK (AP) — Spectrum Brands, Flowers Foods rise; Lordstown, Loews…

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

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. envoy says Lebanon is a failing state that has also failed its people, leaving them…

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be playing football again less than two…

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold another chunk of his stock after pledging on Twitter to liquidate 10% of his holdings in the electric…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September,…

BOSTON (AP) — Members of the union that represents about 200 workers at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have voted to hold a one-day strike next…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa says it has repaid all the aid it received from the German government last year to help the airline through the coronavirus…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TOM MURPHY The Associated Press Johnson & Johnson is splitting into two companies, separating the division that sells…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it will start to book a modest profit from its…

By NICK PERRY and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Pacific Rim leaders have agreed to do all they can to improve access to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. and the European Union have inched away from a diplomatic cliff edge but remain miles apart…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese technology conglomerate Toshiba is restructuring to improve its…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand says it would delay the reopening of nightlife entertainment venues to Jan. 15 despite pleas from the industry to make it…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s preparations for the next coronavirus surge include adding thousands more hospital beds…

By FRANK JORDANS, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Going into overtime, negotiators at U.N. climate…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears is free. A Los Angeles judge on Friday ended the conservatorship that…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks closed higher on Wall Street on Friday, but still marked their first weekly loss in six weeks.…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The CEO of McDonald’s is facing increasing criticism, including calls for resignation, following…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says people have a duty to get vaccinated against the…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six U.S. oil executives detained in Venezuela for four years on corruption charges have…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts has pulled up at the International Space…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two Native American tribes have failed again in their bid to persuade a federal judge in Nevada…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Kellogg Co. has filed a lawsuit against its local union in Omaha. It’s complaining…

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter says it’s permanently banned Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson for repeated violations of its…

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A chemical company has agreed to pay $34 million to compensate residents of a Vermont town for chemical contamination in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Dillard’s, Beazer Homes rise; Walt Disney, Beyond Meat…

The Associated Press Stocks managed to close mostly higher on Wall Street Thursday, but the S&P 500 is still on track for its first weekly loss…

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

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members of a union representing film and television crews begin voting Friday on a tentative…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The United Nations Climate Change Conference, which was postponed a year…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1972, Big Bird lined up on `Sesame Street’ to receive a measles vaccine as…