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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics has reported its highest quarterly profit in three years as it continues to see robust demand for its…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will gradually loosen its border quarantine system, which has been among…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay minimum wage — rather than $1 a day —…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing new warnings on breast implants. The federal…

The Associated Press Stocks faded in the last hour of trading and ended mostly lower Wednesday, a day after the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A ransomware gang believed to operate out of Russia says it’s hacked the National…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Texas Instruments, Cortexyme fall; Microsoft, Enphase…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Philanthropy, Lucy Bernholz says, is like Chex Mix. It has a lot of different components, but they all contribute…

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

PARIS (AP) — France says it will bar British fishing boats from some French ports starting next week if no deal is reached with the U.K. in a…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors allege eight people connected to an organization based in Kansas City, Kansas, forced children to work…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The mayor of the Florida county that’s home to the nation’s biggest theme park resorts is lifting a pandemic-related…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland congressman has deactivated his official congressional and campaign Facebook and…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Hard Rock wants to build a casino in or near New York City, even as it moves forward…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Twin Metals says it will appeal a federal decision that dealt a serious blow to its proposed copper-nickel mine in northeastern…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland-area roller derby team that has called itself the Guardians since 2013 is suing…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain has sent another minister to Algeria to seek guarantees that its supply of natural…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A U.S. House report says at least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have opened an investigation into graphics chipmaker Nvidia’s $40…

MILAN, Ill. (AP) — Police say a vehicle struck and killed a United Auto Workers member as he was walking to a picket line outside a John Deere…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four years after the “Greatest Show On Earth” shut down, officials are planning to bring back the Ringling…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The National Retail Federation expects that holiday sales gain could shatter last…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova has turned to a non-Russian natural gas supplier for the first time as the…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump must pursue his…

By SALLY HO and JOSH BOAK Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The pandemic has made clear what many experts had long warned: The absence of reliable…

By CAMERON ROGERS Edmunds The 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L is all-new for 2021 and comes standard with a third-row seat. Edmunds compared it to the…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s health minister is warning the country could face a nightmare scenario if it does not contain its…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A woman who was fired after asking to bring an oxygen tank to work to help her breathe will get $25,000 in a federal…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s third-quarter profit jumped 32% even though the number of shipments the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is reporting a loss of more than $100 million for the third quarter because of charges for its 787…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A hike in the cost of wheat is alarming French households who fear a possible rise in the price of…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The global computer chip shortage cut into third-quarter profits at both Ford and crosstown rival…

DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge says Southwest Airlines is within its rights to require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The judge ruled…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Coca-Cola Co. is getting its fizz back. The Atlanta beverage company said its revenue jumped 16% to $10 billion…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s has reported stronger-than-expected sales in the third quarter, boosted by larger orders and higher…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Internal Facebook documents reveal a country lit “on fire” in the days after…

By MARGARETTE BURNETTE of NerdWallet With fewer outlets for in-person spending, many people have been saving more money over the last 18 months than…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Taxes on alcoholic drinks in the U.K. are being radically simplified in the biggest overhaul in more…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Greek officials on Wednesday during a…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Deutsche Bank has seen its net profit increase 6%, to 329 million euros, in the third quarter despite a sharp increase in…

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats say a deal is within reach on President Joe…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court has established a committee of experts to probe accusations that Prime…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says that Saudi Arabia will deposit $3 billion into its central bank to help bolster the cash-strapped fellow Islamic…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A study commissioned by the environmental group Greenpeace shows that over one-third of the busiest short-haul flights in Europe…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Group of 20 summit scheduled for this weekend in Rome is the first in-person gathering of leaders…

By JON GAMBRELL and NASSER KARIMI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president is saying that a cyberattack that shut…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The global energy transition is perhaps nowhere more perplexing than in the Arabian…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has started to vaccinate children as part of an effort to reopen schools after more than…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The defense for former Nissan executive Greg Kelly has argued there is no evidence or motives…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares have fallen after a retreat on Wall Street as banks and health care companies pulled the S&P…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition Labor Party says a looming election will be fought on…

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. regulators are expelling a unit of China Telecom Ltd., one of the country’s three major state-owned carriers, from the…

By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Youri Mevs is not starving, not struggling for survival — in so…

By ALEX VEIGA and LYNN ELBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special…

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. (AP) — Another California county has closed down an In-N-Out restaurant because the popular burger chain refuses to enforce…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Senate and House have approved a bill that would slash the central…

By BERNARD CONDON and ALEX VEIGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s social media company will get tens of millions of special bonus…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government says it will expand a vaccine mandate to include thousands…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Another group of workers is suing Los Alamos National Laboratory over its COVID-19…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Profits at payments giant Visa Inc. jumped in its most-recent quarter, driven by consumers and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Ohio trader in penny stocks has been arrested on charges alleging he repeatedly lied to…

NEW YORK (AP) — The meteoric growth of Robinhood Markets is coming back to earth, much like its stock price. The company whose easy-to-use app has…

By The Associated Press A rebound in digital ad spending at Google continues to lift its parent company’s profit. Alphabet said Tuesday that it…

The Associated Press Stocks held on to modest gains on Wall Street Tuesday, pushing the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average further into…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter posted a net loss Tuesday due mostly to a lawsuit settlement it paid, but its revenue rose sharply in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: UPS, Hasbro rise; Corning, Lockheed Martin…

Associated Press REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Growth in Microsoft’s cloud computing business helped push the company’s profit up 24% in the…

By CALEB JONES and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Go out for a night on the town in some U.S. cities and you might find…

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

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Women make up just over half the workers in the U.S. casino industry. But the top…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s workers in 12 U.S. cities have walked off the job to protest what they say is an ongoing problem of…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Diocese has fired a Catholic music school teacher in Queens after he married a man. It says he violated a contractual…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Contract talks between the Kellogg Co. and its 1,400 striking cereal plant workers are set to resume next week. The Battle…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Meatpacking giant Tyson Foods says more than 96% of its workers have been vaccinated ahead of…

General Motors is planning to install up to 40,000 electric vehicle chargers across the U.S. and Canada as part of a new community charging program.…

By EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As the pandemic upended lives and livelihoods, people around the country…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia plans to reopen in stages to fully vaccinated foreign tourists starting from the end of November. The Tourism…

By KRISTIN M. HALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press America’s armed services will have to keep better track of their guns and explosives under…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Smaller retailers are bracing for the all-important holiday season. The global supply chain has…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence rose in October after three straight declines as the public’s…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WSHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new homes jumped 14% in September to the fastest pace in six months as strong…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health advisers have endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe have arrested 150 people and seized more…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief is set to deliver his first budget statement since the Conservative…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have identified the suspect in a Boise, Idaho mall shooting as 27-year-old Jacob…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices jumped in August by a near-record amount from a year earlier, as…

By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the…

By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the…

By AMRITA JAYAKUMAR of NerdWallet Caregiving for your parents and figuring out what happens to your finances when you die are things no one wants to…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s de facto chief Lee Jae-yong has been fined 70 million won, or about $60,000, for illegally using the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Ordinary Americans and the nation’s airlines are combining to donate miles and cash to help Afghan refugees…

ATLANTA (AP) — UPS’ third-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations, as consumers are paying higher rates to have the package delivery…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The daily number of COVID-19 deaths in Russia has reached another high amid a surge in…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU ministers have held emergency talks focused on energy that didn’t produce immediate…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ biggest pension fund says it will stop investing in companies that…

By MARCY GORDON and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have put executives of YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are lower after Australia reported unexpectedly strong inflation,…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite its lack of outbreaks to align with China’s…

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its…