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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Walgreens will begin flying packages by drone to residents in a pair of Texas cities in partnership with…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies are confronting demands by hourly workers on terms that often used to be…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has ordered the extradition of a former Venezuelan spy chief to the United States where he is wanted on charges of…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France says it will announce potential sanctions over energy prices and trade “by the end of…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s competition watchdog fined Facebook 50.5 million pounds ($69.4 million) on Wednesday for violating rules during the UK…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — With coronavirus cases rising in Britain, the government is urging millions of people to get booster…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered many of Russia’s workers to stay off work for a…

Edmunds The Volkswagen Taos and Chevrolet Trailblazer are two of the latest in a growing crowd of extra-small crossover SUVs. These entry-level…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Travel in the COVID-19 era is anything but predictable. Don’t get caught off guard by flight cancellations,…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official is exhorting the bloc’s 27 nations to wean themselves off…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s central bank has announced that he will step down after a decade at the…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says there has been a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week. It’s the only…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press ZURICH (AP) — Credit Suisse has announced settlements totaling nearly $700 million with British, Swiss and U.S.…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have detained two former soldiers who are alleged to have tried to form a mercenary group that would have…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice saw a record five exceptional floods over six weeks in late 2019 that triggered fears…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed after major Chinese property developer Evergrande said a plan to sell its property…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.N.-backed study has found that the world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal,…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work. The feat is…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is backing away from a plan to put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave. A…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty top business leaders are seeking to encourage private investment to help the U.N.…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration is threatening to revoke the authority for three…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A former California pollution regulator is being nominated to run the nation’s highway safety…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Canadian National’s CEO is retiring instead of staying to fight against an investor who has…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS won its first week of the still-new television season, this time by dominating non-sports…

By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s most aggressive move yet to combat the COVID-19 pandemic…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The David Prize, an annual $1 million award for select New York City residents, has announced its five winners…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific and its labor unions are suing each other to determine whether the railroad has…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines is reporting a $473 million profit for the third quarter, which covers much of the peak summer…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Netflix has posted sharply higher third-quarter earnings thanks to a stronger slate of titles. Those include…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street Tuesday, giving the S&P 500 its fifth straight gain and getting it closer to the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Manpower, EverQuote fall; Johnson & Johnson, Travelers…

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

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of nations particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming have laid out their key demands ahead of the upcoming U.N.…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria is introducing a COVID-19 “Green Certificate” as a mandatory requirement for access to restaurants, theaters,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Proctor & Gamble is raising prices on a range of goods as higher commodity and freight costs are set to take a bite out of its…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 55 years, Medicare has followed a simple policy with covered benefits…

By MARIA CHENG and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African drug regulator has rejected the Russian-made coronavirus…

BERLIN (AP) — German publisher Axel Springer SE says it has completed its acquisition of U.S.-based political news outlet Politico. The…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook is paying a $4.75 million fine and up to $9.5 million to eligible victims to resolve…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Whether you love cryptocurrencies or hate the very idea of them, they’re becoming more mainstream…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has thrown out a lawsuit against American treasure hunters that accused them of having destroyed an underwater…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are laying out plans to let most Americans buy hearing aids without a…

By AYA BATRAWY and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says the Middle East is expected…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Regulators are stepping up scrutiny of the United Kingdom’s music streaming market to see whether there’s enough…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. home construction fell 1.6% in September as builders continue to be tripped up by…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has promised to link Egypt to the European Union’s energy market with an undersea cable that would carry electricity…

MADRID (AP) — Spain is smoothing the path for unaccompanied young migrants to obtain residence and work permits. Around 15,000 people are expected…

By KOSTYA MANENKOV and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Facing a surge of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the head of an…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Sales of the cancer treatment Darzalex helped Johnson & Johnson deliver better-than-expected third quarter…

By COURTNEY JESPERSEN of NerdWallet Black Friday takes place on Nov. 26 this year. A month ahead of the big discount day, we talked to retail experts…

By JILL LAWLESS and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is hosting a meeting aimed at attracting billions of dollars in…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal health officials are rethinking their approach to controlling salmonella in poultry plants…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up…

By DAVID McHUGH, COLLEEN BARRY, JOE McDONALD and TATIANA POLLASTRI Associated Press The world’s facing an energy crunch. Europe is feeling it…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — After nearly seven years in China, LinkedIn says it will stop operating its localized version of the…

LONDON (AP) — Investment giant BlackRock says it is backing a new London-based research hub which will provide asset managers with information on…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rose for a fifth day on strong corporate…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says a net zero carbon emissions target by 2050…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand counted its most new coronavirus cases of the pandemic as an outbreak in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Spirits producer Heaven Hill Distillery says its contract talks with striking union workers have reached an…

By MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Data shows a massive cargo ship that was supposed to be at anchor repeatedly…

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Contract talks between Deere & Co. and its 10,000 striking workers have resumed, but it wasn’t immediately clear how far…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department says that the economic and financial sanctions the United States…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Last week, police in southern Oregon raided a site that had roughly two tons of processed…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is gearing up to invest $3.5 billion into climate initiatives through her…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market certainly shook when hundreds of thousands of regular people suddenly piled into…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Sinclair, Zillow fall; State Street, Peabody Energy…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but…

The Associated Press Wall Street wobbled to a mixed finish Monday as the market’s momentum slowed following its best week since July. The S&P…

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) — New Jersey’s sports betting industry has become the first in the United States to take…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the latest milestone for Bitcoin, the country’s first exchange-traded fund linked to the most…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is poised to spend approximately $900 million of its…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s capital has returned to the lowest level on its COVID-19 pandemic warning system for the first time since June. In…

HELSINKI (AP) — The Chinese-controlled Swedish car maker Volvo Cars will make a return as a listed company after a hiatus of more than two decades…

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — European Union foreign ministers have looked at ways to stop illegal migration into the 27-nation bloc from neighboring Belarus…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back the release dates of many of its upcoming titles, including the untitled Indiana Jones movie…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats on Monday became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on…

By MATT OTT and MARCY GORDON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon,…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A European human rights watchdog is recommending that Malta legalize abortion,…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Frans Timmerman, the European commissioner for climate action, is urging that all…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has reimposed coronavirus restrictions in the hardest-hit parts of the country amid the latest surge of…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has ordered a halt to routine medical care at state clinics in order to devote more resources to coronavirus patients.…

The Ford Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, announced Monday that it will divest millions from fossil fuels,…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — An insurer is suing the operator of a coastal Georgia warehouse where 50,000 tons of biofuel wood pellets went up in smoke…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The Federal Reserve reported Monday that U.S. industrial production fell 1.3% in…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has set a new goal for fighting climate change over the next decade, saying it will aim to cut its greenhouse…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging strategy to regulate toxic industrial…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S.’ expanding legal marijuana market is driving strong sales and profit growth for…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators are investigating fuel pump failures in more than 600,000 diesel Ram trucks that could cause the engines to…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business Writers Sinclair Broadcast Group says that some of its servers and work stations were encrypted…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The powerful chief editor of Germany’s best-selling newspaper Bild has been relieved of his…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Global automakers are stepping up the pace when it comes to building factories to prepare for what…

By Liz Weston of NerdWallet Supply chain disruptions could make purchasing longed-for toys a lot more difficult this year. This isn’t just a…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s total number of coronavirus infections has topped 8 million and its daily infection toll…

LONDON (AP) — Ford Motor Co. plans to spend up to 230 million pounds to turn a transmission factory in northwest England into a plant that will…

By TAIJING WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Taiwanese company that manufactures smartphones for Apple Inc. and other global brands…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has begun its legal challenge to a judge’s landmark decision…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as investors wait for more U.S. corporate…