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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government has pledged stronger action against cybercrime, which has come to account for about a fifth of all offenses registered in the country. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said police would be given additional staff, funding and resources to address online crime. He said Wednesday that reported cases of cybercrime were up

RYE, N.Y. — Gamco Investors: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By MATTHEW BROWN and SAM METZ Associated Press HARLOWTON, Mont. (AP) — Near the banks of Montana’s Musselshell River, cattle rancher Michael Miller saw a large, white orb above the town of Harlowton last week, a day before U.S. officials revealed they were tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the state. The balloon caused

RICHMOND, Va. — Dominion Energy: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

OMAHA, Neb. — Green Plains: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

HELSINKI (AP) — Firefighters are working for a second day to fully extinguish a blaze at a U.S. company’s drone plant in Latvia. Local police said Wednesday they have found nothing so far to indicate sabotage. Latvia’s State Fire and Rescue Service was alerted Tuesday afternoon that a fire had broken out at Edge Autonomy’s

ST. LOUIS — Belden: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

OMAHA, Neb. — Green Plains Partners: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

VONORE, Tenn. — MasterCraft Boat Holdings, Inc.: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

NEW YORK — Coty: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

HOLON, Israel — Perion Network: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of farmers have driven their tractors to Paris to amplify their demand to be allowed to use banned pesticides on sugar beets to help ensure “food sovereignty” for France. Entering the French capital through a southern gateway, the farmers’ convoy rolled on Wednesday to the gold-domed Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Big money is pouring into primary care clinics as the nation’s health care giants hunt for ways to cut costs by keeping people healthy. CVS Health said Wednesday that it will spend about $10.6 billion to buy Oak Street Health, which runs clinics that specialize in treating Medicare Advantage

WESTCHESTER, Ill. — Ingredion: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

ST. LOUIS — Bunge: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

SAXONBURG, Pa. — Coherent: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

TEL AVIV, Israel — Radware: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

SHELTON, Conn. — Edgewell Personal: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Twitter executives conceded Wednesday they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election, but adamantly denied Republican assertions they were pressured by Democrats and law enforcement

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion chamber withdrew Wednesday from this month’s Milan Fashion Week, alleging a lack of support for diversity and inclusion after the chamber “abandoned” a project to promote young designers of color working in Italy. Stella Jean interrupted a press

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press DeFOREST, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden has made Wisconsin his first stop after his State of the Union address, visiting a training center run by a union near Madison, the state capital. He’s pressing the economic message and other themes he promoted in Tuesday’s nationally televised

STAVANGER NORWAY, Norway — Equinor: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International investigators found “strong indications” Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the supply of heavy anti-aircraft weapons to Ukrainian separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a Russian missile in 2014. But the Joint Investigation Team said they had insufficient evidence to start new

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has appealed for patience amid the country’s worst economic crisis but promised brighter times ahead. President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a policy speech on Wednesday after inaugurating a new parliamentary session that he had been forced to make unpopular decisions to salvage

By JILL LAWLESS and SILVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought Western support for his country in surprise visits to Britain and France on Wednesday, pushing for fighter jets to battle Russian invaders in a dramatic speech to the U.K. Parliament, and then flying to Paris to meet the French

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after Wall Street gave back some of its recent gains on persisting uncertainty over interest rates and inflation. Benchmarks declined in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney but rose in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Wall Street retreated following a set of mixed earnings

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The International Energy Agency says Asia will for the first time use half of the world’s electricity by 2025. In a forecast released Wednesday, the agency said China’s share of global electricity consumption will rise from a quarter in 2015 to a third by the middle of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say in a new report that North Korean hackers working for the government stole record-breaking virtual assets last year estimated to be worth between $630 million and more than $1 billion. The panel of experts said in the wide-ranging report seen Tuesday by

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a proposed lithium mine. But the judge’s ruling late Monday denied opponents’ effort to block the project. The mine developer says the ruling clears the way for construction at

SAO PAULO — Banco Itau: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Nabors: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Encompass Health: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

CARMEL, Ind. — CNO: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

SHANGHAI — Yum China: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

DENVER — Western Union: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

DENVER — Healthpeak: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A10 Networks: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

NEW YORK (AP) — Bed Bath & Beyond says it will be shuttering 150 more stores as the beleaguered home goods chain to cut costs as it works to stave off a bankruptcy. The news came as the chain has been reducing its footprint dramatically over the past year. According to a regulatory filing, it

PL VENLO, Netherlands — Qiagen: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

HONG KONG — Silicon Motion: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

NEW YORK — Omnicom: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will be in a New York courtroom Thursday for a bail-related hearing despite his lawyers claims that they’ve settled their differences with prosecutors. Manhattan federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan says he wants to know more about Bankman-Fried’s efforts to contact a likely

RALEIGH, N.C. — Highwoods Properties: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

MALVERN, Pa. — Cantaloupe: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

SAN FRANCISCO — LiveRamp: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

YARDLEY, Pa. — Crown: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan’s top prosecutor say they will go after landlords who allow hundreds of illicit shops to operate. It’s part of a renewed attempt to snuff out New York City’s thriving illegal cannabis market. It was the latest effort

OKLAHOMA CITY — Paycom: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

CARLSBAD, Calif. — ViaSat: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

PHILADELPHIA — FMC: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

SAN DIEGO — American Assets Trust: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

COLUMBIA, Md. — Tenable: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Exelixis: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

DALLAS — Atmos: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot

ROSEBANK, South Africa — Lesaka Technologies: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

BOSTON — Vertex: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

MONETT, Mo. — Jack Henry: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Enanta Pharmaceuticals: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Big name advertisers from T-Mobile to Google are paying as much as $7 million for a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl. To get the most out of those millions, many advertisers released their ads in the days ahead of the big game to maximize

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A magazine and website that has served Bruce Springsteen’s fans for 43 years is shutting down, with its publisher writing that he’s been disillusioned by the debate over ticket prices for their hero’s current tour. Backstreets had been an unusually robust publication that imposed journalistic

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — New clashes between protesters and security forces in southern Nigeria have left at least one person injured, amid demonstrations against a cash shortage. That was caused by the West African nation’s push to rapidly phase out its old currency notes. People on Tuesday attacked banks accused

ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines says most of its workers will get a 5% pay raise in April. The airline said Tuesday it will also increase the amount of money available for merit raises. The pay hikes are for non-union employees including flight attendants, who have been the target of several close organizing campaigns

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Philanthropy research organization Candid is leading a coalition of funders and grantees looking to standardize the collection of demographic information to help streamline donations to minority-led groups. Candid CEO Ann Mei Chang believes harnessing diversity data can advance racial equity and she plans to launch a nonprofit movement to

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A bevy of booze brands will be in the Super Bowl ad lineup this year, now that Anheuser-Busch has ended its exclusive advertising sponsorship after more than 30 years. In addition to celebrities hawking Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, viewers will see some famous folks touting

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence. The revamping of Microsoft’s second-place search engine could give the software giant a head start against

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The tech industry started the year with a wave of job cuts, around 50,000 in January alone, and there doesn’t appear to be any let up this month. The video-conferencing service Zoom said Tuesday that it is cutting about 1,300 jobs, or approximately 15% of its workforce. CEO Eric

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its unprecedented powers in deciding what to build and how to build it at the Walt Disney World Resort, issuing bonds and holding the ability to build its own nuclear plant if it

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that if the U.S. job market further strengthens in the coming months or inflation readings accelerate, the Fed might have to raise its benchmark interest rate higher than it now projects. Powell’s remarks followed the government’s blockbuster report last

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress is taking up key aviation legislation just after close calls between planes at airports in New York and Texas. A House committee held the first hearing Tuesday on legislation that will govern the Federal Aviation Administration. That’s the agency responsible for managing air traffic control. Lawmakers praised the

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A jury has sat solemnly in a gilded hall in central London, presided over by a bewigged representative of the crown in flowing black robes, but there were no criminals in the dock. Britain’s coinage was on trial. In a ceremony that dates back to the 12th

Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region. Mozambique’s Islamic extremist insurgency, which started in

By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet While married couples usually have finances that are much more intertwined, it can still be beneficial for unmarried couples to open a joint bank account, especially if the couple lives together and has shared expenses. However, there can also be risks involved with combining finances if you don’t have the

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected a lawsuit by environmental group Greenpeace that aimed to force automaker Volkswagen to stop selling vehicles with combustion engines by 2030. The civil case echoes several other lawsuits brought by climate campaigners, including one against luxury car manufacturer BMW that was dismissed last week. German news agency

SANDUSKY, Ohio — Civista Bancshares: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

HANOVER, N.H. — White Mountains: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

BY JOHN SEEWER and PATRICK ORSAGOS EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Brittany Dailey stood outside her hotel watching black smoke darken the sky 10 miles to the east as crews burned toxic chemicals from tanker cars that derailed just down the street from her home. The faint smell of chlorine hung in the air Monday

GREENVILLE, S.C. — ScanSource: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

LISLE, Ill. — CTS: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Crystal Powers began a new job remotely in February 2022 as a medical records supervisor. She has yet to meet two of the five people who report to her in person and has found it challenging to bond with her fellow managers online. “I was used

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. — Mueller Industries: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — SelectQuote: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Fiserv: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

WASHINGTON — Xylem: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

CLEVELAND — TransDigm: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Macerich: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has announced that it is appointing the European Central Bank’s head of IT systems to lead Germany’s national cybersecurity agency. . Germany’s interior minister said Tuesday that Claudia Plattner “brings the experience and expertise with her that we need for cybersecurity in these particularly challenging times.” She will take

WILMINGTON, Del. — Incyte: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

STAMFORD, Conn. — Gartner: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

WEST WOKING, Britain — Linde: Q4 Earnings Snapshot