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LONDON (AP) — Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha has called on Instagram to take racism more seriously after being targeted with abuse after…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden heads to a United Nations climate conference Monday energized by a new…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, DAVID MCHUGH and KARL RITTER Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to stop…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, has reported $30.4 billion in…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — India and the U.K. will launch a project that aims to create a solar grid connecting…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden has wrapped up his time at the Group of 20 summit trying to convince…

ROME (AP) — Britain is naming a thinning Antarctic ice mass the Glasgow Glacier. It says the name symbolizes the vast implications for the world of…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democrats say party leaders are hoping for House votes as soon as Tuesday on the two pillars of…

The Associated Press To the dismay of millions of children — and the parents trying to keep them busy and cope with their anguish — the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer ROME (AP) — Leaders of the Group of 20 countries have expressed support for a deal that makes sweeping changes…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — The U.S. and European Union have reached an agreement to settle their diplomatic rift…

The Associated Press Farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Co. reached a tentative labor agreement Saturday with the United Auto Workers union.…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Hundreds of people opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates have rallied at the Kansas Statehouse…

By LISA RATHKE and THOMAS PEIPERT JAY, Vt. (AP) — Ski resorts are expecting a more normal season on the slopes this winter with many virus…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Britain and France are facing calls to sort out their latest post-Brexit spat…

By DAVID McHUGH, FRANCES D’EMILIO and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have endorsed a…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex will begin fining shipping companies if they let cargo containers stack up as the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese company that sold millions of faulty dehumidifiers to U.S. customers will pay $91 million for failing to tell…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the four retail pharmacy companies on trial for their alleged roles in fostering an…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana has become the latest state to temporarily stop making license plates because of a…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. governors are taking a seat at the table as international leaders gather in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tourism officials from Oregon’s largest city are calling Portland’s…

The Associated Press Stocks are ending higher Friday as Wall Street closed out a milestone-setting week. Every major index closed higher. Health…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Apple, Amazon fall; US Steel, Newell…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5…

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

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has renewed Britain’s threat to break from part of the Brexit divorce…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have asked a judge to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has hit Iran with a fresh set of sanctions as President Joe Biden prepares for a key weekend meeting with…

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Toyota says it is investing $461 million into its first U.S. plant to add new technology, increase production flexibility…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state appeals court says Louisiana’s largest health system can’t fire or…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Four weeks after an oil spill off Southern California’s coast, surfers have been…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and salaries jumped in the three months ending in September by the most on…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers slowed their spending to a gain of just 0.6% in September, a…

By HUZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. wants to deepen its relationship with Taiwan, the self-ruled island claimed by China,…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government is proposing a record budget for 2022 to bolster an economic recovery following the…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Exxon Mobil swung to a hefty profit in its third quarter, thanks to increased demand for oil and higher…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch data protection watchdog has issued a damning report on the country’s tax…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s internet regulator plans to require companies to obtain government approval to transfer data deemed important abroad.…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to calm stormy waters over fishing with France…

BEIJING (AP) — More than 2,000 tourists visiting China’s Inner Mongolia region have been sent to hotels to undergo two weeks of quarantine.…

BEIJING (AP) — A newspaper reports a troubled Chinese developer whose struggle to avoid a multibillion-dollar debt default has rattled global…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Consumer prices across the 19 European Union countries that use the euro currency have spiked to the…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s often-strained relations in past years with European economic powerhouse…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei’s sales fell 32% from a year earlier in the first nine months of…

By DAVID McHUGH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — The global economy is giving leaders of the Group of 20 countries a lot to talk about at…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are ending higher Friday as Wall Street closed out a milestone-setting week. Health…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The island nation of Tonga has reported its first-ever case of COVID-19 after a…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid issues are turning up as winners in President Joe Biden’s social budget…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on a movie set has put a microscope on an often-unseen corner of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Filled with pink and fuzzy things and cuddly bears, 6%DOKIDOKI, a tiny store in the heart of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rate rose this week as inflation pressures, the coronavirus pandemic and some supply shortages linger.…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A company that made and operated casino-style games used for illegal gambling will pay $3.5 million and permanently stop its…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, will hold union elections next month after winning a…

By TOM KRISHER and HOPE YEN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The government has reported that the number of U.S. traffic deaths in the first half of…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has declined to validate a contract granting permanent access to…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple’s iPhone sales soared yet again in the past quarter, but didn’t grow as…

By MATT O’BRIEN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination _…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Strong U.S. sales helped make up for weakness in other markets in Starbucks’ fiscal fourth quarter. The…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon isn’t just grappling with the easing of pandemic-induced splurges. The online…

The Associated Press Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Thursday, marking more record highs for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. The Dow…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Ford, KLA rise; Twilio, eBay…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that search warrants will be unsealed in an…

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

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook Inc. says it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., joining a long list of…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Elon Musk isn’t happy. With a personal fortune that is flirting with $300 billion, the Tesla CEO — the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain has removed the seven remaining countries on its travel “red list.” The change means that travelers who have been…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of restaurant owners, chefs, waiters and bartenders are protesting in cities…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — GE Appliances has announced plans to add more than 1,000 jobs at its sprawling Kentucky…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s justice minister says the European Union member should not pay any of…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An independent Dutch government advisory panel says the government must urgently take more action to rein in…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A company in the United Arab Emirates hopes to sell its electric pod transit…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho company that successfully brought genetically modified potatoes to the market has…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Energy prices are soaring in 2021 and oil and gas stocks are the clear winners, but the losers might just turn…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hampered by COVID-19 cases and supply shortages, the U.S. economy slowed sharply to a 2%…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a pandemic low last week,…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Merck fell out of the race to develop COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year but could vault to head of the pack for…

By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A program at the University of Michigan to combat struggles that…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Construction demand drove third quarter sales higher at Caterpillar as did rising demand from miners and other…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian officials have praised the “steel friendship” with China during talks with…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global policy management, says the social media giant does not…

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an American Airlines flight from New York to California was diverted to Denver after a passenger assaulted a flight…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — European gas prices have dropped after Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported third-quarter profit above analyst…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Statistics Institute says consumer prices increased this month by the country’s highest rate in 29 years…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has reported its profit fell 54% in the last quarter, mainly due to a one-time tax-related…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has decided to keep its pandemic stimulus efforts unchanged…

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers have grilled Facebook and other tech giants over how they handle online safety. The questioning comes as European…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen has lowered its forecast for deliveries to customers and reported a decrease in operating profits for the…

By KEVIN FREKING and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Democrats are getting low marks from the public as…

By DANICA KIRKA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it will summon the French ambassador for a dressing-down, the latest…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top executives of ExxonMobil and other oil giants have denied spreading disinformation about…

By DAVID RISING and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesians are looking ahead warily toward the holiday travel season,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are slipping, despite recent signs of optimism about the global economy, including…

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic”…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The National Park Service has partnered with a tourism association to ensure the contributions of Native Americans are…