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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Ford Motor Co., down $1.09 to $13.12. The automaker reported…

The Associated Press Wall Street’s rally hit a wall after a surprisingly strong jobs report fueled worries about inflation and higher interest…

By RAF CASERT and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday that industrialized countries in…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska authorities say a skull found in a remote part of the state’s Interior in 1997…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Nostalgia sells and marketers know it, having used the brands of yesteryear fully aware that consumers will…

BOSTON (AP) — The fifth-tier Welsh club owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney will send a team to compete in a $1 million,…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISO (AP) — A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A major hospital system in northern Florida says it is diverting some emergency room patients and canceling surgeries…

By FREIDA FRISARO and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The car owned by a missing 74-year-old Florida Lyft driver has…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court says Amazon broke labor laws by forcing more than 2,000 delivery drivers…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Government regulators announced Friday that videogame maker Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $35 million to…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s currency has continued its slide and protesters are asking the government to…

DETROIT (AP) — Honda and the U.S. government are urging owners of about 8,200 older vehicles not to drive them until dangerous air bag inflators…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister has warned of a “tough time” as his government struggles to comply…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Ford will return to Formula One as the engine provider for Red Bull Racing in a partnership announced Friday…

BERLIN (AP) — Ukraine could add old Leopard 1 battle tanks from German defense industry stocks to deliveries of modern tanks that Germany and other…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO is calling on Russia to respect the only treaty it has with the United States to keep a lid on nuclear weapons expansion. The…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s coast guard says that the bodies of eight migrants have been recovered during an…

BEIJING (AP) — China has confirmed it is offering Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on loan repayments as the Indian Ocean island nation struggles to…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government is seeking to ban a far-right political party led by a jailed…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s big rally to start the year wilted on Friday after a surprisingly strong jobs…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly a year, the Federal Reserve has been on a mission to cool down the job market to…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — A grinding crackdown that wiped billions of dollars of value off Chinese technology companies is…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to give $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to a semiconductor company in…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s says it has named acting CEO Tom Kingsbury as its permanent leader. Kingsbury…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple on Thursday posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years after pandemic-driven…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal appeals court says the U.S. government failed to consider the cumulative…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford says its fourth-quarter net income fell 90% from a year earlier. That led company officials to…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks reported lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter, hurt by COVID restrictions in China…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has reported worse-than-expected profits but its revenue beat expectations boosted by…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Google parent company Alphabet has posted lower profit and a small revenue increase for last year’s…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed higher, led by excitement around tech stocks and a surge for Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms. The…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico plans to power up the first phase of a huge solar energy project in…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell 53 cents to $75.88 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for April delivery fell 67…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fourth week in a row, a sign of relative stability that…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Brian Deese, is leaving his post. Biden says in a…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Indian Ocean countries who want better safeguards for marine life by updating fishing…

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer U.S. applications for jobless aid fell again last week to their lowest level since April, further evidence that the…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Gautam Adani was Asia’s richest man when the U.S. short-selling firm…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says is responding to “deeply shocking” revelations that debt collectors…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway says the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top…

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three decades after Bill Clinton signed into the law the nation’s…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has slammed a group of Western countries which temporarily closed down their…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior members of the European Union’s executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by another half-point and vows a…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises called off its $2.5 billion share…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press Hong Kong (AP) — Hong Kong will give away air tickets and vouchers to woo tourists back. The international…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has announced another “forceful” increase in interest rates. The central…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press London (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has angry unions to the left of him, anxious Conservative Party…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has appointed a company veteran as its president to lead the Japanese electronics and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday ahead of a closely watched U.S. jobs report that may affect…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers will soon discuss a proposed law that would ban smoking in Atlantic…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer President Joe Biden is taking swipes at airlines and hotels over some of the fees that they charge consumers. The…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s former chief of staff has testified that the billionaire believed he had…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by a quarter point Wednesday, bringing it to the highest…

The Associated Press Wall Street rose to its highest level since the summer following the latest hike to interest rates by the Federal Reserve, which…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook parent company Meta has posted another quarter of declining revenue, hurt by…

By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., up $9.49 to $84.64. The…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer The Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell $2.46 to $76.41 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for April delivery fell $2.62…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New campaign finance reports show that former President Donald Trump’s political operation…