AP National Business

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate tumbled by nearly a half-point this week, but will likely…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A coalition of consumer groups is asking grocery chains to rethink their digital-only coupons. Consumer Reports,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer The Federal Reserve may have to raise its benchmark interest rate much higher than many people expect to…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group on Thursday posted net losses and missed market…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people have marched through central Athens, accompanied by a heavy police presence, to mark the anniversary of a…

By KEN SWEET and MICHELLE CHAPMAN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man who had to clean up the mess at Enron says the situation at FTX is…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market remains healthy as fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last…

DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling nearly 250,000 heavy duty diesel Ram pickups in the U.S. because transmission fluid can leak and cause…

By STAN CHOE AP Busines Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Corporate profits have withstood raging inflation over much of the last year, but those good times…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Results from Macy’s, Kohl’s and Gap have further underscored the cloudy picture for…

By SUZAN FRASER and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A wartime agreement that unblocked grain shipments from Ukraine and…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN and JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writers ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — With the galloping horses long gone, the Chicago Bears see 326…

LONDON (AP) — The British government has blocked a Chinese-owned company’s takeover of a Wales-based microchip maker, calling it a risk to…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted three men of murder for their role in…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hopes for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia,…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — American game developer Blizzard Entertainment said Thursday it will suspend most of its game services…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Massive blackouts that temporarily hit more than a half-dozen…

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people across Britain face higher taxes and energy bills…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The long border between Finland and Russia runs through thick forests and is marked only by…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Sri Lankan government is being urged to drop charges against two protest…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say two people have died after a multi-story building under construction…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian airstrikes have targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities as the first snow of the…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou plans to build quarantine facilities with almost 250,000…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Pacific Rim leaders are seeking common ground on the war in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked a trade deficit for the 15th month in a row in October as both imports and exports…

By JOHNSON LAI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s envoy to APEC is the 91-year-old billionaire founder of a…

By DAVID FISCHER and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged eight people with smuggling endangered monkeys ,…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — They were supposed to be birthday presents. They were supposed to be Christmas presents.…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Arizona-based First Solar Inc. has selected Alabama as the site of a more than $1 billion factory that will manufacture…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A class-action federal lawsuit is accusing 11 of the United States’ largest beef and pork…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Donald Trump’s suspension from Facebook and Instagram will stand for now despite his candidacy for president.…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed lower as hefty drops in retailers and technology companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Target Corp., down $23.51 to $155.47. The retailer reported…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Christopher Waller, a key Federal Reserve official, added his voice to a rising number…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A host of Hollywood and sports celebrities including Larry David and Tom Brady were named as…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A company with an office in Houston and another owned by two American citizens appear to be helping…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has begun mass layoffs in its corporate ranks, becoming the latest tech company to…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery fell $1.33 to $85.59 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for January delivery fell $1…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A new Senate report is criticizing the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for not doing enough to track…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pilots of hot air balloons carrying paying passengers will need medical certificates, just like pilots of other kinds of…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers plan to investigate the failure of FTX, the large crypto exchange that collapsed…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department on Wednesday awarded nearly $74 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law for 10 projects to advance…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An international nonprofit organization that sets sustainability standards for…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Austria, Hungary and Serbia have held another top-level meeting dedicated to curbing…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is defending himself in a shareholder lawsuit challenging a…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World has picked a developer to construct and operate an affordable housing development for which the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — It’s looking more like a recession is coming in Europe. That’s the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Americans are bracing for a costly Thanksgiving this year, with double-digit percent increases in the price of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans stepped up their spending at retailers, restaurants, and auto dealers last…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s domestic spy chief says the country faces major security threats from the trio of…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a blast in Poland that killed two people probably…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk, who just took over as the chief executive at Twitter after buying the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Airbnb is looking for more people to turn their homes into short-term rentals. The company said Wednesday that it…

By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds Cadillac unveiled the CT4-V Blackwing as a new-for-2022 version of the CT4 sedan, which the luxury brand debuted in 2020. As…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet If you want to save money and avoid the airport crowds during the holiday season, you’ll want to fly on the holiday…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An unexpected and potentially ominous pullback in customer spending ahead of the…

By FRANK JORDANS, SAMY MAGDY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them…

By ADAM SCHRECK and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Members of the Group of 20 leading economies have firmly condemned the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday amid concerns about the impact of China’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate rose to a 41-year high in October, fueling demands for the government to…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that…

By YURI KAGEYAMA and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers TOKYO (AP) — The new Toyota gas-electric Prius hybrid not only comes with more power,…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space capsule hurtled toward the moon Wednesday for the first time in 50 years,…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a Chinese national…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Rose Prophete thought the second mortgage loan on her Brooklyn home was resolved about a decade ago — until she…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities locked down a major university in Beijing on Wednesday after finding one…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Costner can comfortably boast of being television’s biggest star right now. His…

VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) — Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous…

By MIKE CORDER and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is set to deliver verdicts Thursday in the trial…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Ben & Jerry’s board of directors has rebuked the sale of products bearing any of the ice cream maker’s…

The Associated Press Estee Lauder is acquiring luxury powerhouse Tom Ford in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. As part of the deal, Ermenegildo Zegna…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is licensing its name to a golf resort in Oman in the first of what it…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says it will provide Puerto Rico with temporary electric…

By KEN SWEET and THALIA BEATY The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after cryptocurrency’s third-largest exchange collapsed, the public…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing higher, boosted by more signs the nation’s high inflation may be falling off faster than expected. But a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Walmart Inc., up $9.05 to $147.44. The retailer reported…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas voters have narrowly rejected a proposal that would have given the…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery rose $1.05 to $86.92 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for January delivery rose 72…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The head of Tesla’s board of directors says her focus in helping develop a huge…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small business lobbying group has filed suit to block the Treasury Department’s upcoming…

By The Associated Press World Cup host nation Qatar said Tuesday it will count emissions produced from daily flights ferrying fans during the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing sanctions on firms and entities accused of being involved in the transfer…

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania fed by the vast natural gas reservoir underneath…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — The offshore wind power energy has ambitious plans for generating electricity for millions…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Gas-electric hybrids were the most dependable vehicles sold in the U.S. in the past year, while big…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A show of prison artwork by a Russian arms trader serving 25 years in the United States and the focus…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister says Britain is carrying out a “calculated attack” on his…

By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova has reported “massive power outages across the…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A multi-story residential building under construction has collapsed in Kenyan capital…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says a convoy of trucks carrying medicine arrived in Tigray’s regional…