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NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing a group of nurses at a New York City hospital has reached a tentative contract agreement with its…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading Chinese financial technology provider Ant Group has announced that its…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Joan Cohrs missed her chance to grab a prescription at her usual drugstore by about 30 seconds. Cohrs walked up to the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president praised the United States for including…

By ADRIANA MORGA, JAMES BROOKS and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies are showing off their latest products at CES,…

BEIJING (AP) — China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge on Friday scolded Donald Trump’s lawyers as he denied their bid to dismiss…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Avocados can be tricky. Their ripeness window is so narrow that a slew of memes poke fun at…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s is tempering its sales outlook for the fiscal fourth quarter after shoppers…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Negotiations to keep about 10,000 nurses from walking off the job are heading into a final…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Costco Wholesale Corp., up $32.68 to $482.87. The warehouse…

The Associated Press Wall Street rallied amid hopes inflation may continue to cool and the Federal Reserve may ease up on its interest rate hikes…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina U.S. Sen. Richard Burr says the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into investment…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers say they will move to increase state control of Walt Disney…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery rose 10 cents to $73.77 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for March delivery fell 12…

BOSTON (AP) — A former University of Southern California athletics department official who accepted bribes from the ringleader of the nationwide…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Ask the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday approved a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug that’s been…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Personal emails linked to 235 million Twitter accounts hacked some time ago have been exposed according to…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Vince McMahon is rejoining the board of WWE several months after he retired from the sports entertainment…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have named two dozen people to examine safety practices at Boeing, and one of them is a man whose sister died…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Four more luxury vehicles have been seized in the investigation into Andrew Tate, a divisive social media personality who…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the…

ROME (AP) — Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A top foreign ministry official says India will host a virtual summit of over 120 developing…

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says a winter storm and technology breakdown over the…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An uneasy quiet settled over Kyiv on Friday despite air-raid sirens that blared there and…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — When Scott Steffes leaves Michigan’s Parnall Correctional Facility this month he…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Europe ended a bad year for inflation with some relief as price gains eased again. While the cost…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany dropped 5.3% in November compared with the previous month, on a sharp drop in…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks rallied after a shaky start and closed with broad gains Friday as some mixed readings on the…

By ADRIANA MORGA, JAMES BROOKS and CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies are showing off their latest products this week…

BEIJING (AP) — China is seeking to minimize the possibility of a major new COVID-19 outbreak during this month’s Lunar New Year travel rush…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a solid 223,000 jobs in December, evidence that the…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares says his company has to work to cut costs globally in order to keep…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Universal Orlando Resort has filed paperwork and pledged 13 acres for a commuter rail station that could link the seventh…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — When a futuristic-looking electric Ram pickup truck goes on sale next year, it will hardly be the…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call…

The Associated Press Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street and Treasury yields rose after another hot reading on the job market raised worries that the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Amazon.com Inc., down $2.02 to $83.12. The e-commerce giant…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Exercise equipment maker Peloton Interactive has agreed to pay roughly $19 million in…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery rose 83 cents to $73.67 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for March delivery rose 85…

By The Associated Press The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination. Facebook parent Meta is the…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Federal officials say American Airlines retaliated against flight attendants who complained about jet fuel fumes seeping…

By RIO YAMAT and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines says it will start providing free Wi-Fi for all passengers on most…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network,…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than a thousand startups are showcasing their products at the annual CES tech show in…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials are increasingly concerned whether next week’s U.N.-backed conference will…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mercedes-Benz will build its own worldwide electric vehicle charging network starting in North America in a bid to compete with EV…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the second straight week following six weeks of…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — With its flights running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is now turning its…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a rule that would prevent employers from…

LONDON (AP) — The British government is dangling the prospect of public-sector pay hikes next year in an attempt to end strikes by nurses and…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal ocean regulators say a new fishing plan has a chance to rebuild the New England…

BERLIN (AP) — A top German official says the government is working on legislation enabling the use of underground carbon storage, a much-discussed…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Beleaguered Bed Bath & Beyond is warning it may need to file for bankruptcy as…

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — In a story published January 5, 2023, about the U.S. Agency for International Development providing $30 million in aid to…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s network regulator says a gas shortage is “increasingly unlikely” this winter, but is cautioning that it remains…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A huge opioid settlement dragged Walgreens to a $3.7 billion loss in its fiscal first quarter, but the drugstore chain…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in more than three…

DETROIT (AP) — Mercedes is recalling nearly 324,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the engines can stall while they’re being driven. The recall…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two major Southern law firms are merging into one firm that will have offices on both…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street expects companies to face a reckoning with the realities of hot inflation, a…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French Defense Ministry says it will hold talks “very quickly” with its Ukrainian…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will start to reopen its border with mainland China on Sunday and allow tens of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday after Wall Street benchmarks fell on worries that the U.S.…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Opponents of the largest lithium mine planned in the U.S. urged a federal judge in Nevada on…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sony unveiled a new high-tech prototype car it will produce in partnership with Honda at the CES tech show Wednesday. The vehicle,…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Shortages of computer chips and other parts continued to hobble the U.S. auto industry last year,…

The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES is not allowing Russian exhibitors to display their products at the annual tech show because of the…

By JAMES BROOKS, ADRIANA MORGA and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at…

The Associated Press Stocks ended higher on Wall Street after a day of wavering as minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting of policymakers…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Salesforce Inc., up $4.81 to $139.59. The cloud computing…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery fell $4.09 to $72.84 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for March delivery fell…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic leaders pledge to use their new control of the state…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials suggested at their most recent meeting that a continuing…

DALLAS (AP) — James “Buster” Corley, a co-founder of the restaurant and entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s, has died. He was 72. Corley…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has entered into four new settlements with opioid makers and distributors totaling…

By SABINA NIKSIC and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia (AP) — The new year’s festivities are over in Bosnia, and visitors to the…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Automaker Stellantis is teaming with Archer Aviation to create an electric aircraft. The plane, named…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Central Banks says the pound has seen its largest single-day slide since the government agreed to a $3 billion…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York announced a $100 million settlement with Coinbase on Wednesday over what state officials called significant failures in…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan have ordered shopping malls and markets to close by 8:30 p.m. as part of a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped in November but remained at high suggesting businesses are…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major speech of 2023, has pledged to halve inflation,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister has signed a deal to buy a second batch of U.S Abrams main battle tanks as Warsaw beefs up…