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By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Airline and hotel elite status extensions due to the COVID-19 pandemic are expiring this year, and the companies are…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen watched Ford cars and…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Cash-strapped Pakistan’s currency has plunged against the dollar after the government indicated it was ready to comply with…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia is reporting strong fourth-quarter results on the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany-based software company SAP says it’s cutting up to 3,000 jobs worldwide, or about 2.5% of its workforce. The…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s tech industry has long been the driving force behind the country’s economy.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares advanced Friday, tracking a rally on Wall Street following reports suggesting the…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Tesla says it intends to invest $3.6 billion to expand manufacturing capabilities in Nevada…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.9% annual pace from October through December, ending 2022…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The federal government is investigating whether Southwest Airlines knowingly scheduling more…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX railroad says it hauled in 9% more fourth-quarter profit even though it carried less cargo…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s impulsive and sometimes inflammatory usage of Twitter has…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has posted record net income for the fourth quarter of last year, and the company predicted that…

NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Bieber’s record-breaking pop hits from “Baby” to “Sorry” are no longer his after the superstar sold the rights…

The Associated Press Stocks shook off an early slide and wound up little changed as worries about corporate profits weighed on the market. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Boeing Co., up 70 cents to $212.68. The aerospace-defense…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss decided to deliver a speech on a bill that would create a…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, work on a massive rail project has been grinding 15 stories below the shuffling…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has warned Madison Square Garden that it may be violating…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A system that sends alerts to pilots, and broke down earlier this month, is causing delays for some users again. But federal…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs spent eight years attempting to expand its business beyond corporations and the…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico privatized its electricity production on Wednesday. The government chose…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is forecasting that global economic growth will fall significantly to…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Amazon’s surprise decision to shut down its AmazonSmile donation program has left thousands…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says a record 16.3 million people sought health insurance through the Affordable…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is trying to delay new tax credits for electric vehicles, a key…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Space Agency chief says he wants to rebuild Europe’s access to space following…

By BERT WILKINSON The Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The former leader of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency is criticizing the…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Amazon warehouse workers went on strike for the first time in Britain on Wednesday because of a…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka’s Central Bank chief says the country is making good…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The economic outlook has brightened in Europe’s largest economy. The German…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Adani Group has protested allegations by short-selling firm Hindenburg Research that caused shares in its companies…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United States is rerouting $72 million of America’s assistance to Lebanon to help the…

ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Egypt have agreed to increase trade during a visit by the Egyptian president that…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft said it’s seeing some improvement to problems with its online services including the Teams messaging platform and…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have gathered near the Central Bank in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad,…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government says the U.S. should stop pressuring it on debt relief for Zambia and focus on averting a government default…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — The beaches and temples of Asian travel hotspots like Bali…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A voter initiative that would overturn a California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has reported a 12% drop in profit for the October-December quarter, reflecting the economic uncertainty it says led…

The Associated Press Stocks ended mixed on Wall Street after drifting between gains and losses as more big U.S. companies delivered their earnings…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Johnson & Johnson, unchanged at $168.31. The healthcare…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell $1.49 to $80.13 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for March delivery fell $2.06 to…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System officials say they will prohibit the use of TikTok on system devices. System spokesman Mark…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A FirstEnergy Corp. executive says an arm of the utility was “bleeding cash” as it…

ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — The Lego Group has announced that it will move its North American headquarters from Connecticut to Boston by the end of 2026.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said U.S. workers will get pay raises next month, increasing starting wages to between $14 and $19 an hour. Company…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says in a letter to congressional leaders that she’s…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk returned to federal court to defend himself against a class-action lawsuit…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Sooner or later, either Wall Street or the Federal Reserve has to blink.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses who went on strike this month at two major New York City hospitals have ratified the contracts that were hammered out to end…

By The Associated Press U.S. accident investigators are giving more details about what they think caused a Boeing plane to crash in Ethiopia in 2019.…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Senators grilled Ticketmaster Tuesday, questioning whether the company’s dominance in the ticketing industry…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A popular online chatbot powered by artificial intelligence is proving to be adept at creating…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mars says it’s pausing using its trademark M&M’s spokescandies and has enlisted actor…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer 3M, maker of Post-it notes, industrial coatings and ceramics, is cutting about 2,500 manufacturing jobs…

PARIS (AP) — Apparently deliberately set blazes to clusters of electrical cables have caused cascading cancellations on the Paris train network.…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s labor ministry has issued app-based food delivery company Glovo a new fine of 57 million euros ($62 million) for violating…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet Whether your New Year’s resolutions were to save more, spend less or pay off debt, life might already be getting in…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson beat earnings expectations in the final quarter of 2022 even as a strong dollar and sinking…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate around raising the debt ceiling sounds eerily similar: Newly elected…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A gold mining company says three workers have been killed after a blast in western Kenya and blamed illegal mining…