AP National Business

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — American consumers and nearly every industry will be affected if freight trains grind to a halt…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament has passed bilateral free trade agreements with India and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who bilked investors in a Southern California hotel and condominium project out of at least $26 million has been…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern plans to buy a regional railroad it already operates from Cincinnati for $1.62…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized government says Houthi rebels have targeted at ship an…

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. authorities say police in Estonia have arrested two men accused in a half-billion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud. An indictment…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster’s corporate parent has officially ended the agreement for Penguin Random…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, taking a monumental…

The Associated Press Stocks ended lower on Wall Street at the beginning of a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Monday, while drops in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Carvana Co., down $1.01 to $7.05. The used-vehicle chain is…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery fell 35 cents to $79.73 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for January delivery fell 17…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will hear a dispute over a dog toy that got whiskey maker Jack…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Amazon to stop retaliating against employees engaged in workplace…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Auditors in Iraq have uncovered a massive scheme in which a network of…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced preliminary approval to spend up…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan’s publisher is offering refunds for a $600 special edition of his new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song,”…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial have rested their case.…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes more than $3 billion to its largest creditors, the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two Philadelphia developers want to build a $3 billion housing, office and retail…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Consumers could see higher gas prices and shortages of some of their favorite groceries during…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The nation’s major shipping companies are in good shape to get shoppers’ packages delivered on time this holiday…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Financial technology company Credit Karma is probably best known for giving Americans regular…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s budget shows the economy is expected to grow by 1.8% next year, slightly lower than the figures predicted last…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s top diplomat has traveled to Russia to take part in an international forum on…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says the country has offered Eurofighters and Patriot defense systems to Poland to help it…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Extended time off from work doesn’t have to wait until retirement. Your career break may be aspirational, or it may be…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said more than 100 million euros was raised…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street sank and Chinese anti-virus controls…

The Associated Press Dell Technologies reports its third-quarter results Monday. Best Buy delivers its quarterly results Tuesday. The Commerce…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has suspended his routine morning Q&A sessions with…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bob Iger, the enterprising entertainment executive who brought Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel under the Disney marquee and…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets sank Monday after Wall Street ended with a loss for the week amid anxiety…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government says leader John Lee tested positive for the coronavirus after returning…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press The operator of a natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania says workers have successfully plugged a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Latin American governments have selected Brazilian economist Ilan Goldfajn to lead the region’s largest development bank. It…

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Powerful explosions from shelling shook Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government on Sunday denied a report that it is seeking a “Swiss-style” relationship…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms after being…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that makes Jack Daniel’s is howling mad over a squeaking dog toy that…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press MASAKHANE, South Africa (AP) — Living in the shadow of one of South Africa’s largest coal-fired power…

BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday announced its first new death from COVID-19 in nearly half a year as strict new measures are imposed in Beijing and…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has…

BOSTON (AP) — A collection of touching and sometimes prescient personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been…

By STEPHEN GROVES As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intel’s announcement earlier this year of a $20 billion manufacturing operation…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has spoken briefly with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in another…

By KRUTIKA PATHI, CHISATO TANAKA AND CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Leaders from around the Asia-Pacific called for an…

BEIJING (AP) — Performances have been suspended at one of Beijing’s oldest and most renowned theaters as part of a new wave of shop and…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A vent at an underground natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania has been spewing…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental…

The Associated Press Stocks ended higher on Wall Street but still wound up with weekly losses after several days of bumpy trading. Some retailers…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has officially recovered all of the 2.7 million jobs it lost at the start of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Ross Stores Inc., up $9.66 to $107.59. The discount retailer…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer has testified that Eric Trump hiked…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery fell $1.56 to $80.08 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for January delivery fell $2.16…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Over 100 service industry workers have gathered in the capital of the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is in chaos mode. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and on Wednesday gave those…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of environmental and racial justice are suing the U.S.…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The government and two major airlines are giving starkly contrasting views about the impact of an alliance between…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions designed to conserve…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs says an iron ore mine in northern Minnesota will close in a few years if it doesn’t get…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is cautioning that “it’s going to take time” for…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer said Friday that its updated COVID-19 booster may offer some protection against newly emerging omicron…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Experts from Ukraine have joined Polish and American investigators who are looking into a missile blast that killed two men…

By The Associated Press Ford is recalling more than 550,00 F-150 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because the front windshield wiper motor may stop…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in October for the ninth consecutive month to the slowest pre-pandemic…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal the…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s electricity grid chief warned of hours-long power outages Friday as Russia…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official says West Africa is next in line to receive Russian fertilizer that is tied up…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government is defending its decision to hike taxes for millions of working…

DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The president of the European Central Bank is warning the bank may have to raise interest…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two natural gas pipelines…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in federal student loan forgiveness has been…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union has agreed with employers on a pay deal that will see millions…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is assuring Asian leaders “the United States is here to…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday to more than 11 years…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (AP) — In this part of northeastern Czech Republic, huge piles of coal are stacked up…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — At the U.N. climate summit in Egypt, leaders of developing nations have repeatedly…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Bangkok appear likely to issue a statement…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A late-afternoon rally on Wall Street helped stocks close higher Friday, though the major…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to maintain an arms embargo on Somalia over strong…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the mass layoffs that began in the company’s corporate ranks…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials proposed changes Thursday to the federal program that helps pay the grocery bills for…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press The University of California, Berkeley’s law school on Thursday joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government says it will protect two populations of a rare prairie bird that’s found in parts of the Midwest,…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Democratic senators have asked federal regulators to investigate any possible…

By HALELUYA HADERO and STEPHEN GROVES The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter…

The Associated Press Stocks fell on Wall Street and Treasury yields rose after more indications from the Federal Reserve that it may need to raise…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Bowlero, PTC fall; Cisco, Bath & Body Works…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery fell $3.95 to $81.64 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for January delivery fell…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Krispy Kreme will pay nearly $1.2 million in back wages and damages to workers to resolve overtime pay…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer General Motors expects its portfolio of electric vehicles to turn a profit in North America by 2025. That will come as…

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian investors are showing concern over President-elect Luiz Inácio…