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By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has unveiled plans for new laws that it said would help…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Craig Newmark twists a “Batman” quote to jokingly refer to himself as “not the nerd you…

By MICHAEL FAULHABER and DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Oktoberfest is back in Germany after two years of pandemic cancellations —…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The head of China’s legislature called for cooperation with South Korea in advanced…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital…

By RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press JANOW, Poland (AP) — Poland has sealed $3 billion deals with South Korea for the purchase of 48 Korean FA-50…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Investigators searching through a mass burial site in Ukraine have found evidence…

PARIS (AP) — Many domestic and some international flights have been canceled in France after air traffic controllers went on a national strike…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A British man accused by Denmark of masterminding a $1.7 billion tax fraud has…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street closed out the stock market’s worst week in three months with more losses…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries to ensure energy security before a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Justice Department official has announced new incentives for companies that…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new law in California will require companies that provide online services to protect…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Editor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A complex software change to the cryptocurrency ethereum holds the potential to…

The Associated Press Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, putting major indexes deeper in the red for the week. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% on Thursday.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Adobe, Arconic fall; Humana, Danaher…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is stuck with more than 100 planes that it can’t deliver to Chinese airlines, so it’s going to…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company’s…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell $3.38 to $85.10 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for November delivery fell…

DETROIT (AP) — Nissan is recalling more than 203,000 pickup trucks in the U.S. because they can roll away unexpectedly when shifted into park. The…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Oil titan BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit over air…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX has hired an auto industry executive to lead its railroad after its current CEO retires.…

By MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to develop floating…

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will spend $491 million to expand and upgrade an Indiana metal stamping plant for production of steel and…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faces an in-depth antitrust investigation in Britain…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police are investigating a fake advertising campaign that appeared on social media and shows a…

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says corporate travel is recovering a bit more slowly than the airline had expected. Southwest said Thursday that…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Mindful that its thriving internet gambling market is one of the brightest spots in New…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese activist group says they will continue to organize bank heists to help people retrieve…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is urging companies to make a one-off payment to their employees of up to 3,000 euros (dollars) as a way of…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s president says he wants to make it harder for Russians to use owning real estate in the…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West is breaking up with the Gap. An attorney for Kanye West, who goes by Ye,…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed over 6% this week for the first time since the…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The largest part of the U.S. economy is holding up against the hottest inflation in four…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN says it is scrapping its “New Day” morning show for a revamped program that will be hosted…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s consumer inflation surged to 20.5% in August, its statistics agency said…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Here’s what’s in the tentative agreement that railroad unions secured to prevent a potential…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The CEO of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has quit after a summer that descended into chaos and flight cancellations amid staff…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says the Group of Seven major economies have agreed to take a tougher, more coordinated stance toward…

By MATT OTT and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press The founder of outdoor gear company Patagonia says the company is transferring all of its voting shares…

CAIRO (AP) — Flash flooding across Sudan has killed at least 20 people over the past week, raising the official death toll since the rainy season…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to sharpen the national security…

Associated Press Amtrak says it is working to quickly restore canceled trains after President Joe Biden announced that a tentative railway labor…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending a bit in August from July even as surging inflation…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have declared that Hungary has become “a hybrid regime of electoral…

By LISA ANTHONY of NerdWallet The possibility of a recession in the near future and the likely reduction in credit availability that is often…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities found a mass burial site near a recaptured northeastern city…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Friday after higher-than-expected U.S.…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Bond Commission has approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden says a deal has been reached to avert a looming freight rail strike…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you shop online for clothes or furniture, sneakers or concert tickets, you’ve seen the option…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have grown fond of “buy now, pay later” services, but the “pay later” part is…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Republican governors are escalating their partisan tactic of sending migrants to…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported it posted a record trade deficit in August as costs for imports of oil, gas and other commodities soared. The 2.82…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics says it’s shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A woman accompanied by activists and brandishing what she said was a toy pistol broke into a…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/ Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is launching an initiative to bring more tourism to…

JUNCTION CITY, Ky. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a 2019 pipeline explosion that resulted in one death and the destruction of…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it has approved ambitious plans…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson rise; Nucor, Union Pacific…

The Associated Press Stocks closed modestly higher on Wall Street after a day of veering between gains and losses. The tentative trading came a day…

By The Associated Press Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A new surveys shows nearly one in five U.S. adults bet money on sports over the past…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose $1.17 to $88.48 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for November delivery rose 93…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has announced steep increases in fuel prices despite fears the move would crush…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has accepted nearly $190 million in bids from an offshore oil…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — California is suing Amazon, accusing the company of violating the state’s antitrust and…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government has unveiled a plan to help businesses cope with surging energy costs. Prime Minister Petr Fiala says the…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company wants to revoke a bankruptcy…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Members of one union have rejected a tentative deal with the largest U.S. freight railroads,…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A high-profile labor organizer has resigned from Starbucks, saying the company forced her out because of her…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will transfer $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Jim Beam plans to ramp up bourbon production at its largest Kentucky distillery to meet growing global demand in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have adopted new legislation aimed at guaranteeing “decent” minimum wages for all workers across the…