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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from state devices, its technology office said Thursday. The…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s contentious approval of a questionable Alzheimer’s drug took another hit Thursday as…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Kentucky and Ohio will get more than $1.6 billion in federal grants to help build a new Ohio River bridge near Cincinnati. They…

The Associated Press Stocks rallied to a higher close on Wall Street as new jobless benefits data showed that the labor market remains strong. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: ViaSat Inc., up $1.91 to $31.76. The provider of satellite…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a major drug wholesaler contributed to the…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for February delivery fell 56 cents to $78.40 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for February delivery fell…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press Amiah Manlove used most of her savings to buy a $711 airline ticket to go home for the holidays. Then the Army…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Economists are baffled by a wider-than-usual divergence between long-term mortgage rates and…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska company is recalling alfalfa sprouts sold in three states after 16 cases of salmonella…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week after falling for six straight…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has appointed a new head of its central bank after the country’s currency crashed to its lowest level…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is seeking to strengthen ties with India through agreements aimed at tighter military cooperation, expanding the use…

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Jan. 1, many Americans will qualify for a tax credit of up to $7,500 for…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press More than 1,100 towns, hamlets and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas as the U.S. Census Bureau…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines said it expects to return to normal operations Friday after more than a week of…

By COURTNEY WALSH Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has vowed to address the “litany of woe”…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday following encouraging U.S. employment…

By KEN MORITSUGU and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Moves by several countries to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from…

By HENG SINITH and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press POIPET, Cambodia (AP) — A massive fire at a Cambodian hotel casino Thursday injured over 60…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street as investors count down to the end of the worst year for the S&P 500 since 2008. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Chevron, Toll Brothers fall; Generac Holdings…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America A Green Bay radio magnate who built Midwest Communications into a multistate operation has died.…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Owning Tesla stock this year has been anything but a smooth ride for investors. Shares in the…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly banned the use of TikTok on the state-issued devices of government…

By DAVID KOENIG and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Travelers who counted on Southwest Airlines to get them home suffered…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has ordered a crackdown on local businesses operating under the…

PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say a Ukrainian businessman and former lawmaker suspected of embezzling more than $100 million has been arrested…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s first floating liquefied natural gas terminal was moored Wednesday at the southern port…

By KRISTIN V. SHAW Edmunds Massaging seats, mood lightning, soothing music and more: Some cars on the market deliver a driving experience way beyond…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s prime minister has inaugurated the country’s first metro rail service aimed at easing notorious traffic…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet More than 1 in 4 retirees say they’re spending more than they can afford, according to a recent survey from the…

BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss court has granted a six-month “stay of bankruptcy” to the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline.…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is scrapping some of its COVID-19 restrictions, including PCR tests for inbound travelers…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Thursday after benchmarks fell more than 1% on Wall Street in the…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Southwest Airlines Co., down $2.15 to $33.94. The airline had…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns are expected to be released by the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A divided appeals court has tossed out the insider trading convictions of four men, prompting…

The Associated Press Stocks closed lower Tuesday afternoon after the long holiday weekend, adding to the market’s recent losses as Wall Street…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State governments emerging from the coronavirus pandemic built historic cash surpluses…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The French and Polish defense ministers have agreed to a deal under which France will provide Poland with two observation…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan federal judge known for swift decisions and a no-nonsense demeanor has been…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones, part of a…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain has announced a new series of measures including scrapping Value Added Tax on staple food and…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Ukraine must meet Moscow’s…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — The new leader of Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works said he’s been rejuvenated by a shift…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing coalition is arguing over whether remaining COVID-19 restrictions should be dropped after one of the…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI Associated Press MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Serbs have erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thousands of travelers have been stranded at airports or stuck on hold trying to rebook flights this week as a…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — For more than a decade, Kathy Winter has been working to get self-driving vehicles on the road, first…

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet For those of us with big financial plans or resolutions for the new year, such as buying a home or new car, getting…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Families hoping to catch a Southwest Airlines flight after days of cancellations, missing luggage…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies welcomed China’s decision to end quarantines for travelers from abroad as an…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed his fourth minister in two months to patch a…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people older than 60 to get vaccinated…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Days of freezing temperatures in Deep South areas that usually freeze for only hours are threatening dozens of water systems…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister said Monday that his nation wants a…

BEIJING (AP) — China will drop a COVID-19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8, the National Health…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chorus against Ticketmaster’s contentious concert pricing practices is growing, numbering among them Zach Bryan and…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The season’s triple-virus threat notwithstanding, parties are back, and they’ve…

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Jan. 1, many Americans will qualify for a tax credit of up to $7,500 for…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian military reported Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose Monday in Asia in thin post-Christmas holiday trading, with markets in Europe,…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo residents hovered around space heaters, hunted for cars buried in snow drifts and…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Avatar: The Way of Water” sailed to the top of the box office in its second…

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old man designed fake parking tickets and put them on cars near the beach in Northern…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, say residents must boil their drinking water due to water lines bursting in the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia is ready for talks to end the war in Ukraine even as the country faced more…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s government say it’s imposing urgent measures in…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A section of the new $1.7 trillion spending bill from Congress has been billed as a dramatic…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday to ride…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian president appears determined to upend the country’s…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg’s…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A frigid winter storm killed at least 18 people as it swept across the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thousands of travelers have been stranded at airports or stuck on hold trying to rebook flights this week as a…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street following a batch of mixed news on the economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Friday. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: News Corp., up 49 cents to $18.56. Michael Bloomberg is…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. federal lawmakers have changed 19th-century maritime liability rules for accident…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a…

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A trial has been delayed for the former leader of a Mississippi grain storage and processing company who is accused of tens…

TORONTO (AP) — A major winter storm hitting Ontario and Quebec has caused widespread flight cancellations and school closures, and has knocked out…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — As Belkis Fajardo, 69, walks through the dense streets of downtown Havana with a small bag of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge kept secret that two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest associates had turned against…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer CEO Elon Musk says he won’t sell any more shares in Tesla for 18 months or more, likely an attempt to comfort…