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By ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s first leftist president has presented an ambitious tax plan…
Continue ReadingBy ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s first leftist president has presented an ambitious tax plan…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture in her back during a hard…
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD and SHELBY LUM Associated Press DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S. and Europe…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks closed flat on Wall Street as investors prepare for a busy week of updates on inflation. The S&P 500 gave up early…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Viatris, First Solar rise; Tyson Foods, Nvidia…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose $1.75 to $90.76 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety officials have confirmed they will let Boeing resume deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner jet. The Federal Aviation…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s an old and new media marriage: Axios Media, the digital news site known for its to-the-point blurbs on…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Derek Kerr might have the hardest job in the airline business. He’s the chief…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Pope Francis is offering support to firefighters and search crews in Cuba following explosions at a big oil tank farm in the western…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — BioNTech, which teamed with Pfizer to develop a powerful COVID-19 vaccine, has reported higher revenue and net profit in the first…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party rejected a bid to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder over his…
Continue ReadingBy LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Sometimes the best strategies to deal with inflation align with the best ways to manage your money. For example, delaying…
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Associated Press Pfizer will spend about $5.4 billion to buy Global Blood Therapeutics as the pharmaceutical giant…
Continue ReadingBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has accused Ryanair of consumer protection violations after it raised ticket prices to cope with a tax on what the…
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in up to 10 countries mostly in Africa by 2030 to support…
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Monday that each side is shelling Europe’s biggest…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group posted a $23 billion loss in the April-June quarter as…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — The owner of a music pub in eastern Thailand where a fire last week killed 15 people and injured more than three dozen others has…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The Labor Department issues its second-quarter snapshot of U.S. employee productivity Tuesday and its latest monthly index of…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The echo of artillery shells thundering in the distance mingles with the din of people…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Tuesday amid a global fall in technology shares, including…
Continue ReadingBy ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer FLEMING-NEON, Ky. (AP) — Barely a week after floodwaters swept downtown and left a foot of mud and twisted,…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An aggressive push toward renewable energy has run headlong into anxiety over keeping the…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Monday after strong U.S. jobs data cleared the way for more interest…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The capital of China’s Hainan province has locked down its residents for 13 hours on Monday as a COVID-19 outbreak grows on…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week.…
Continue ReadingGODDARD, Kan. (AP) — A new federal study said dozens of people got sick after visiting a splash park near Wichita, Kansas, last summer. The study…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The stylized action romp “Bullet Train,” starring Brad Pitt, arrived with a $30.1 million…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s export growth continued to rise in July, sending trade surplus to a record high. According to data from China’s customs,…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Karen Raschke, a retired attorney in New York, started getting her groceries delivered early in the pandemic.…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — For Boston subway riders, it seems every week brings a new tale of transit woe. There have been…
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar…
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Six more ships carrying agricultural cargo held up by the war in Ukraine received…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SAN JUAN DE COLON, Venezuela (AP) — Official cross-border trade between Venezuela and Colombia has been…
Continue ReadingBy KEN KUSMER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The administration of President Joe Biden and one of Indiana’s largest employers have…
Continue ReadingElon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures…
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2020, Kelly Jackson and Davina Arceneaux wanted to leave their company jobs and become…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic bill toward Senate approval early…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company reported a $43.76 billion loss in the second quarter as the paper…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department’s effort to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon…
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB, AYA BATRAWY and CARA ANNA Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A ship bringing corn to Lebanon’s northern port of Tripoli normally…
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency’s global food price index dropped for a fourth straight month in July, but was still…
Continue ReadingBy KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chi Kee Sawmill & Timber is Hong Kong’s last operating sawmill. It has been processing wood in…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Twitter says vulnerability in its software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks are closing mostly lower Friday after new data on the hot U.S. jobs market suggested the Fed won’t soon rein in its…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Zillow, Monster Beverage fall; Yelp, Atlassian…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers. Airlines canceled about…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — The U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in July, meaning workers who want a new…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 47 cents to $89.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal agency has once again failed to consider possible damage to the environment…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — July’s jobs report was a stunner, in more ways than one. Despite raging inflation and anxiety…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery, which went public in April, missed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The developer of a major pipeline system has pleaded no contest to criminal charges…
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — As inflation skyrockets, hourly workers keep changing jobs in pursuit of higher wages. And with…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The Vatican recorded a 3 million euro deficit last year, far less than the 33 million euros projected. But the Holy See said Friday…
Continue ReadingBLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban…
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with…
Continue ReadingBy ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy has contracted for two straight quarters, intensifying fears that it…
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting…
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