An “eraser button”? Focused ideas could help bridle Big Tech
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in…
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in…
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zillow Group says it will stop buying and selling homes, citing the unpredictability of…
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A hearing examiner is recommending that New Mexico regulators reject a proposed merger involving the state’s largest…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of…
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PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — Shares of Avis doubled after the rental car company’s third-quarter results showed it is well on the road to recovery…
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The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first close above 36,000 points.…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s legal team has asked a court-appointed monitor to block prosecutors from…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Arista Networks, Pfizer rise; Chegg, Harsco…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge in Philadelphia has rejected a defense motion to dismiss a corruption case mid-trial against powerful labor…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says atomic power can play a key role in balancing…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — African leaders and campaigners are pressing the international community to do more to…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — China’s climate envoy is defending his country’s pace of emissions cuts…
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By EMILY HAYNES and MICHAEL THEIS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy In the wake of the most devastating public-health…
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By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system…
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal…
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of…
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By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The Justice Department is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the…
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By EMILIO MORENATTI and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LAS MANCHAS DE ABAJO, Canary Islands (AP) — Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business.…
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BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is turning to a ballot of its entire membership to choose a new…
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as…
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By The Associated Press The Asian Development Bank says it has won commitments of $665 million to support climate-related projects in Southeast Asia.…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILIVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Electric vehicle maker Nuro said Tuesday it had secured $600 million in funding from…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Shares of Tesla Inc. tumbled almost 4% in midday trading on Tuesday after its CEO and…
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By KRISTI EATON Associated Press One hotel in Mexico has an “Instagram concierge” to help guests with their selfie game. A hotel in Aruba has a…
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has issued a recall that automatically sent a software update fixing a safety problem in its…
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By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Pfizer is hiking sales expectations for its top-selling COVID-19 vaccine again, and its early look at 2022 also falls…
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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Yahoo Inc. says it has pulled out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal…
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By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit another daily record several days after a nationwide order for…
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By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Cryptocurrency is managed a bit differently than traditional investment accounts, which can make estate planning a…
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COPENHAGEN (AP) — The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk, has reported a sharp rise in earnings amid strong…
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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — BP reported soaring profits Tuesday on the back of surging oil and gas prices as the global economy…
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By FRANK JORDANS and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — World leaders are promising to protect Earth’s forests, cut…
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By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French trawler owners in Normandy have reacted with confusion and consternation after…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The mayors of Seattle and Freetown in Sierra Leone greeted each other like long lost…
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By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press POINTE-AUX-CHENES, Louisiana (AP) — Faith leaders and activists across the world are…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly lower in Asia, weighed down by concerns over disrupted supply chains and shipping, despite…
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By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Last year’s pandemic style saw people put on pajamas and their hair up in a…
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By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants businesses, their employees and their families to…
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By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants businesses, their employees and their families to…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Robot food delivery is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Hundreds of little…
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new…
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By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the…
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By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the nation’s largest utility holding companies has agreed to refund customers of…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The union representing dockworkers at South Carolina’s ports tells The Associated Press…
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A court document says a 20-year-old California man accused of assaulting a flight attendant on a…
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KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency has yet again pushed back a final decision on whether to allow the construction of a launchpad for…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The company that runs Facebook says it has cancelled 937 accounts linked to the government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista party…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Novavax, Harley-Davidson rise; Moderna, Mirati…
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The Associated Press Stocks ended a wobbly day modestly higher on Wall Street, enough to notch more all-time highs for major indexes. The S&P…
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — American whiskey producers have toasted a trans-Atlantic agreement to end retaliatory…
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department says it plans to borrow $1.02 trillion during the current…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would…
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Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is taking Big Business to task. In an op-ed published Monday, the Republican from…
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By ANITA SNOW and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration’s decision to allow vaccinated people to enter the U.S. by…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is still trying to dig out from under a blizzard of canceled flights over the…
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Cryptocurrency has officially gone to the dogs. The recent trading frenzy over a digital…
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Elon Musk says he will sell $6 billion worth of Tesla stock and donate it to the United Nations’ food agency if it could show how the money would…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies with at least 100 workers will be required to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and paid…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation at its highest point in three decades, the Federal Reserve is set this…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to…
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By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The multibillion-dollar world of sleep training guides, toddler activity ideas, breastfeeding tips…
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing growth slowed in October amid growing headaches from supply chain…
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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A movement to divest from fossil fuels is gaining momentum among foundations as activists push the $1 trillion…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Coca-Cola has completed its acquisition of sports drink brand BodyArmor. Coke said Monday it paid $5.6 billion…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for…
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Blommaert, President of Low Carbon Solutions at Exxon Mobil, says carbon capture and storage…
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By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Biotechnology company Novavax says that Indonesia has given the world’s first…
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By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet A will determines who gets your stuff after you die. But a will won’t take care of all of your final wishes. A will…
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By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and PAN PYLAS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — France’s president offered Britain extra time for negotiations to…
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — World leaders are turning up the heat and resorting to end-of-the-world rhetoric in…
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By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Official data show Chinese manufacturing activity contracted for a second straight month in October…
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LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of British bank Barclays has stepped down following a report by United Kingdom regulators into his past links…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press BUSIA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s schools have been fully or partially shut for more than 77 weeks because of the…
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By KEN SWEET and EMILY SWANSON The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Americans’ opinions on the U.S. economy have soured noticeably in the…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has begun to allow larger social gatherings and lifted business-hour…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid cautious trading ahead of a Federal Reserve Open Market Committee…
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The Associated Press Pfizer reports its third-quarter results Tuesday. The Federal Reserve delivers its latest economic and interest rate policy…
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first person to fly across New Zealand’s Cook Strait in an electric plane says…
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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Fireworks boomed as visitors at Shanghai Disneyland waited for COVID-19 test results,…
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer DHANBAD, India (AP) — Efforts to fight climate change are being held back in part because coal, the biggest…
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By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a single week, fractious congressional Democrats have coalesced significantly around President…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Stocks have advanced in Asia, with Tokyo’s benchmark up 2.2% after the ruling Liberal Democrats won a…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan should revitalize its economy through “new…
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By ROD McGUIRK and DAVID RISING Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sydney’s international airport has come alive with tears, embraces…
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic rebound from the coronavirus pandemic is stalling as President Xi Jinping’s…
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The Associated Press The popular gaming site Roblox is back online after an outage this weekend. The online platform crashed Friday. The company…
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — U.S. regulators are delaying their decision on Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 17-year-olds while they study the…
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Southwest Airlines says it’s conducting an internal investigation after one of its pilots…
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MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Union workers at farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. would get wage increases of 10% if they ratify a tentative contract…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nine in 10 New York City municipal workers have received COVID-19 vaccinations as a Monday deadline looms. Mayor Bill de Blasio…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Flight cancellations are skyrocketing at American Airlines. The airline has canceled more than 900…
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By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the Group of 20 countries haggled for two days in Rome over steps to tackle climate change…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend with “Dune” repeating at…
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hoping to easily secure a second term Tuesday. His…
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By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden is praising a new U.S. and European Union agreement that would crack…
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By SYLVIE CORBET and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have stuck…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published Oct. 31, 2021, The Associated Press identified Paul Barrett as teacher of a seminar in law, economics and…
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