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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A private prison company has been ordered to pay more than $23 million over lawsuits that accused it of running its for-profit immigration lockup in Washington state on the backs of detainees. A federal judge on Tuesday ordered GEO Group to turn over $5.9 million in profits

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season. The series rebounded from last year’s contest, which hit an all-time viewership low. The drop was attributed to the pandemic

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in certain cases? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry? Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook, Google, Amazon

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zillow Group says it will stop buying and selling homes, citing the unpredictability of forecasting housing prices. The Seattle-based real estate information company said Tuesday that it will wind down its Zillow Offers unit, a process that will take several quarters and will result in

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A hearing examiner is recommending that New Mexico regulators reject a proposed merger involving the state’s largest utility, Public Service Co. of New Mexico, with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola. The recommendation by Public Regulation Commission hearing examiner Ashley Schannauer says the potential downsides of the merger outweigh the benefits. Under

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global

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 from damage inflicted by the pandemic on the global travel industry. Its third-quarter profit easily beat Wall Street expectations and its sales rose above pre-pandemic levels. Shares in Avis Budget Group

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Tuesday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first close above 36,000 points. The Dow, the broader S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose. The gains came ahead of more news this week from the Federal Reserve and on the jobs market. The Fed is considering

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s legal team has asked a court-appointed monitor to block prosecutors from seeing some of the thousands of electronic files that were seized from his phones and computers during an FBI raid in April. A court-appointed monitor said Tuesday that of the 2,200 seized electronic

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Arista Networks, Pfizer rise; Chegg, Harsco fall.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge in Philadelphia has rejected a defense motion to dismiss a corruption case mid-trial against powerful labor leader Johnny “Doc” Dougherty and City Council Member Bobby Henon. The case now moves to the defense phase after four weeks of prosecution evidence that included wiretapped phone calls. Prosecutors say Dougherty kept

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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 climate concerns and the world’s energy needs. Many environmentalists have long been skeptical of atomic power. They cite the potential for disastrous accidents and the lingering issue of what

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — African leaders and campaigners are pressing the international community to do more to support efforts to adapt to climate change, seizing on evidence showing the continent to be the most endangered by the effects of global warming. The head of the African Union, Congolese President Felix

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — China’s climate envoy is defending his country’s pace of emissions cuts at the Glasgow, Scotland climate summit. Veteran climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua spoke to reporters at a press conference at the summit Tuesday. China’s dependence on coal power helps make it the biggest current climate polluter,

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete faceprints of more than 1 billion people. The unexpected announcement, delivered with little fanfare in a blog post published Tuesday, represents an abrupt about-face for the social network, which first launched

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal government over the failure to review and update plans for platforms off thecoast. The Center for Biological Diversity says it sent notice Tuesday to the Secretary of the Interior of its intent

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change. Burning oil, natural gas and coal from federally owned lands

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 industry. It says consolidation would hurt authors and readers. German media giant Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House is already the largest American publisher. It wants to buy New York-based Simon & Schuster,

By EMILIO MORENATTI and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LAS MANCHAS DE ABAJO, Canary Islands (AP) — Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business. Then he had to watch the lava devour the dozen acres he dedicated to growing the Canary Island banana. Álvarez is one of thousands of farmers and workers on Spain’s La

BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is turning to a ballot of its entire membership to choose a new leader after crashing to defeat and its worst-ever national election result in September. It expects to have a new leader by late January. It will be the first time that the Christian

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 young as 5. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the go-ahead Tuesday night. The announcement came only hours after a CDC advisory panel unanimously decided Pfizer’s

By The Associated Press The Asian Development Bank says it has won commitments of $665 million to support climate-related projects in Southeast Asia. The Manila, Philippines-based lender manages a regional platform that has targeted a total of $7 billion for such spending. It says the new funding announced at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow,

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILIVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Electric vehicle maker Nuro said Tuesday it had secured $600 million in funding from Google, Kroger and others to continue the development of its autonomous delivery vehicle service. The Silicon Valley robotics company has already made thousands of grocery deliveries with Kroger as a

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 founder Elon Musk tweeted that a contract to sell 100,000 cars to Hertz had not been signed, suggesting the deal had not been finalized. Shortly after the market

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 “carbon offset concierge” to help guests relax by addressing their concerns over the environmental impact their travels have had. And a hotel in Portland, Oregon, is creating a “concierge

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 electric vehicles. The recall announced Tuesday apparently heads off a looming confrontation with U.S. safety regulators. It covers nearly 12,000 Teslas with a glitch in the “Full Self-Driving” software

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 well above Wall Street forecasts. The drugmaker says it now expects to book about $36 billion in revenue from Comirnaty this year. That’s about 7% higher than what Pfizer forecast

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Yahoo Inc. says it has pulled out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment.” The company says its services were no longer accessible in mainland China as of Nov. 1. Yahoo is the second large U.S. technology company in recent weeks to reduce

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit another daily record several days after a nationwide order for many Russians to stay off work took effect. Russia’s state coronavirus task force on Tuesday reported 39,008 new confirmed cases and 1,178 COVID-19 deaths. The task force has reported record daily infections

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Cryptocurrency is managed a bit differently than traditional investment accounts, which can make estate planning a little more complicated. But don’t leave your loved ones in the dark about your crypto holdings: Even if you’ve invested small amounts in cryptocurrency, your holdings may be worth a lot of money someday.

COPENHAGEN (AP) — The world’s biggest shipping company, Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk, has reported a sharp rise in earnings amid strong worldwide demand for shipments of goods. The Copenhagen-based company said revenue grew nearly 68% in the third quarter, to a record-high $16.6 billion, up from $9.9 billion in the same three-month period last year. It

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 recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. The British energy giant also warned that gas markets would remain “tight” over the coming months, which will likely further pressure household budgets. The

By FRANK JORDANS and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — World leaders are promising to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit. The flurry of deals announced Tuesday are intended to avert catastrophic global warming. Britain hailed the commitment by more

By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French trawler owners in Normandy have reacted with confusion and consternation after President Emmanuel Macron extended a deadline for the British government to license more French fishing vessels or face consequences. Amid a post-Brexit dispute with Britain, the French government had given Britain until Tuesday to

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The mayors of Seattle and Freetown in Sierra Leone greeted each other like long lost sisters on a train hurtling toward the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow. They have been bonded by years of Zoom calls and collaboration in the fight against climate change, even though

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press POINTE-AUX-CHENES, Louisiana (AP) — Faith leaders and activists across the world are increasingly joining the fight against climate change driven by a moral imperative to preserve creation for future generations. Christian pastors have joined forces with Native American tribes to protect their hurricane-prone coastal lands as

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly lower in Asia, weighed down by concerns over disrupted supply chains and shipping, despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first close above 36,000 points. Tokyo markets were closed for a holiday. On Tuesday, the Dow added 0.4%, the broader S&P 500 also added 0.4% and the

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 bun. But 2021 is more about mascara and lip liners. And makeup sales in the multi-billion-dollar Mideast market are beginning to improve. For women in the region, particularly in

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants businesses, their employees and their families to move to the kingdom. The landlocked, once ultraconservative capital, Riyadh, now promises a lifestyle where concerts, movie theaters, world class sporting events and deal-making are in abundance. Cultural heritage sites are also being

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants businesses, their employees and their families to move to the kingdom. The landlocked, once ultraconservative capital, Riyadh, now promises a lifestyle where concerts, movie theaters, world class sporting events and deal-making are in abundance. Cultural heritage sites are also being

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. Methane packs a stronger short-term climate punch than even carbon dioxide. The plan was announced Tuesday as President Joe Biden wraps up a two-day

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 robots __ knee-high and able to hold around four large pizzas __ are now navigating college campuses and even some city sidewalks in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. While

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions. In the southern city of Guangzhou, the company teamed up with a Chinese hospital to equip it

By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the past three years and oversaw an unprecedented review of 2020 election results in the state’s most populous county says she won’t seek reelection in 2022. Senate President Karen Fann said

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the nation’s largest utility holding companies has agreed to refund customers of its three Ohio electric companies $306 million for collecting significantly excessive profits over a three-year period. The settlement between Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. and the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel and other groups was announced Monday.

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The union representing dockworkers at South Carolina’s ports tells The Associated Press it’s calling on the Biden administration for help in a dispute related to a new shipping terminal. But the chief executive of the state’s ports authority says the “hybrid” union-non-union employment model at the

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 cross-country American Airlines flight allegedly punched the woman in the face after being told he could not use the bathroom, leaving her bleeding around her nose and giving her a concussion.

KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency has yet again pushed back a final decision on whether to allow the construction of a launchpad for commercial rockets in coastal Georgia. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it plans to release its decision on Spaceport Camden by Dec. 15 rather than this Wednesday. Local officials

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The company that runs Facebook says it has cancelled 937 accounts linked to the government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista party of President Daniel Ortega. Meta Platforms says it also removed 140 deceptive pages, 24 groups and 363 Instagram accounts for violating the company’s policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Novavax, Harley-Davidson rise; Moderna, Mirati fall.

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 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq rose Monday. Smaller company stocks far outpaced the broader market. Energy stocks made solid gains as oil prices rose. Bond yields also

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — American whiskey producers have toasted a trans-Atlantic agreement to end retaliatory tariffs that sank their European sales. Now comes the challenge of rebuilding brands that were stymied in Europe during the trade dispute. Distillers will have to ramp up distribution networks. They’ll also have to overcome

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department says it plans to borrow $1.02 trillion during the current quarter. That’s the largest amount since the government began passing trillion-dollar rescue packages for the economy in the spring of 2020. The department announced Monday that the $1.02 trillion borrowing estimate for the

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

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would strengthen government regulation of stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency that has soared in popularity in the past year. In a 22-page report issued Monday, the Treasury Department and several other regulators said the legislation

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 Florida called corporate America “the instrument of anti-American ideologies.” Rubio bemoaned what he described was corporate America’s “wokeness,” and he proposed holding corporate leaders legally liable “when they abuse their corporate

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 land for nonessential travel starting next week has many Canadians packing up their campers and making reservations at their favorite vacation condos and mobile home parks. Restrictions imposed by both countries

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 last few days. By midafternoon Monday, American had canceled more than 400 flights. It’s the fourth straight day of major disruptions at American, which canceled more than 1,000 flights

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Cryptocurrency has officially gone to the dogs. The recent trading frenzy over a digital token called Shiba Inu — commonly billed as a “meme” or joke coin — has vaulted the canine-themed cryptocurrency into the top ten most valuable digital assets by market value,

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 solve world hunger. The Tesla CEO made the comments Sunday on Twitter after U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley challenged Musk and other billionaires

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 sick leave if they have side effects from the shots. That’s according to a Biden administration official who spoke Monday about pending vaccine mandate rules from the Occupational Safety and

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation at its highest point in three decades, the Federal Reserve is set this week to begin winding down the extraordinary aid it has given the economy since the pandemic recession struck early last year, a process that could prove to be a risky balancing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to overturn his criminal conviction for securities fraud. The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that reinstated the fraud conviction of Devon Archer. A

By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The multibillion-dollar world of sleep training guides, toddler activity ideas, breastfeeding tips and all-things parenting has traditionally been overwhelmingly white. Parenting book jackets feature mostly white faces. The so-called mom influencers that brands choose to advertise their products have, until now, also been mostly white. This has

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing growth slowed in October amid growing headaches from supply chain bottlenecks. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Monday that its index of manufacturing activity dipped to a reading of 60.8% in October, 0.3 percentage-points below September’s 61.1%. Any

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A movement to divest from fossil fuels is gaining momentum among foundations as activists push the $1 trillion sector to shift its money away from coal, oil and natural gas. The call from activists to the charitable world and other sectors has been simple: Ditch fossil fuels and direct

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 for the remaining 85% of the sports beverage company. Coke originally bought a 15% stake in the BodyArmor in 2018. BodyArmor was founded a decade ago by the entrepreneurs who also developed

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 refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect Monday and thousands of city firefighters have called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement. Mayor

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Blommaert, President of Low Carbon Solutions at Exxon Mobil, says carbon capture and storage (CCS) is essential to meeting the goals of the Paris agreement while also meeting the growing energy needs of the world. Blommaert talked with The Associated Press about Exxon’s call for

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Biotechnology company Novavax says that Indonesia has given the world’s first emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, which uses a different technology than current shots. The vaccine is easier to store and transport than some other shots, which could allow it to play an important

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 can’t do everything — it can’t avoid sending your estate into probate. A will also shouldn’t do everything — it shouldn’t be used as a technique

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and PAN PYLAS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — France’s president offered Britain extra time for negotiations to try to reach a compromise on a troubling post-Brexit fishing spat. The offer came hours ahead of a threatened French blockade of British ships and trucks. The British government has said throughout the long-running

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 an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations. The metaphors were dramatic and mixed at the start of the talks known as COP26 on Monday. For British Prime Minister

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Official data show Chinese manufacturing activity contracted for a second straight month in October amid materials shortages and widespread power cuts. The National Bureau of Statistics said the official manufacturing purchasing managers index dipped to 49.2 in October, down from 49.6 in September. The index is

LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of British bank Barclays has stepped down following a report by United Kingdom regulators into his past links with the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Jes Staley has previously said he “deeply regrets” his relationship with Epstein, who killed himself in a New York jail in 2019

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 coronavirus pandemic. U.N. figures show that’s the longest disruption anywhere in the world. Lessons moved online in many parts of the globe. But most public schools were unable to offer

By KEN SWEET and EMILY SWANSON The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Americans’ opinions on the U.S. economy have soured noticeably in the past month, a new poll finds. Just 35% of Americans now call the national economy good, while 65% call it poor, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has begun to allow larger social gatherings and lifted business-hour restrictions on restaurants in what officials described as the first step toward attempting to restore some pre-pandemic normalcy. The capital area has been under the country’s strongest social distancing measures short of a

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid cautious trading ahead of a Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Benchmarks in Japan and Australia fell in morning trading, while shares rose in South Korea and China. Investors are also watching for any action from the Reserve Bank of Australia.

The Associated Press Pfizer reports its third-quarter results Tuesday. The Federal Reserve delivers its latest economic and interest rate policy update Wednesday. The Labor Department issues its October tally of hiring by nonfarm employers Friday.

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 he did so with plenty of battery power to spare. Gary Freedman’s 40-minute solo flight came 101 years after the first conventional aircraft flight over the strait that separates New

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Fireworks boomed as visitors at Shanghai Disneyland waited for COVID-19 test results, surrounded by health care workers dressed from head to toe in white protective suits. The theme park suddenly locked down late Sunday after learning a recent visitor from another province had tested positive. Park

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer DHANBAD, India (AP) — Efforts to fight climate change are being held back in part because coal, the biggest single source of climate-changing gases, provides cheap electricity and supports millions of jobs. It’s one of the dilemmas facing world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland this week in an attempt

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a single week, fractious congressional Democrats have coalesced significantly around President Joe Biden’s domestic ambitions. They’ve also managed to embarrass Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That dissonance reflects how things work in Congress. It’s a place where legislating and politics are ungainly and often produce

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 stronger than expected majority in an election Sunday. Shares rose in all regional markets except Hong Kong. The regional gains followed further milestones Friday on Wall Street, where the three major indexes

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan should revitalize its economy through “new capitalism” and many in this country are puzzled over exactly what he has in mind. Still, as expected the ruling Liberal Democratic Party won the majority of seats in Sunday’s nationwide elections, handing him

By ROD McGUIRK and DAVID RISING Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sydney’s international airport has come alive with tears, embraces and laughter as Australia’s border opened for the first time in 20 months. Australia eased travel restrictions Monday, betting that vaccination rates are now high enough to mitigate the danger of allowing international visitors

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic rebound from the coronavirus pandemic is stalling as President Xi Jinping’s government cracks down on surging corporate debt. For a decade, the ruling Communist Party has talked about shifting to an economy based on spending by 1.4 billion consumers instead of on building factories

The Associated Press The popular gaming site Roblox is back online after an outage this weekend. The online platform crashed Friday. The company tweeted Sunday evening that Roblox was back online. Players on the platform can create their own games and play with other users. It became wildly popular after the coronavirus pandemic closed schools

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 rare risk of heart inflammation. Moderna said Sunday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told the company Friday evening that its review could last until January. The company also says it will

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Union workers at farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. would get wage increases of 10% if they ratify a tentative contract reached over the weekend. The upfront pay would be followed by 5% raises in the third and fifth years of the tentative contract. Terms of the deal were posted Sunday on

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 tweeted Saturday night that 91% of workers had received the vaccine. That number rose from about 83% as of Friday night. The police department reports a 84% vaccination rate as

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Flight cancellations are skyrocketing at American Airlines. The airline has canceled more than 900 flights on Sunday, or one-third of its schedule for the day. That brings American’s three-day total to more than 1,800 canceled flights. The airline is blaming staffing shortages and high winds that

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 and a pandemic recovery that is diverging between rich and poor countries. Climate change dominated their summit, which ended Sunday just as an annual U.N. Climate Change Conference

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend with “Dune” repeating at number one and two prominent genre newcomers, “Last Night in Soho” and “Antlers,” stumbling. Whether it’s due to Halloween falling on a Sunday, too many new options or simply a lack of enthusiasm,

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hoping to easily secure a second term Tuesday. His reelection campaign has offered an opportunity to show he can raise millions as he seeks to elevate his profile at a national level. Suarez has gained name recognition for launching an

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 down on “dirty steel” that leads to carbon emissions. It would also patch up a trans-Atlantic rift over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs. Biden and European Commission President Ursula