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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Home Depot’s sales rose in its fiscal second quarter, buoyed by continued demand for items related to home…

BEIJING (AP) — Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany says one person has died and nine were seriously injured after a test car with autonomous steering capability…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Bill Gates is calling for South Korea to become more involved in international efforts to prevent infectious diseases…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Opposition figure Raila Odinga said Tuesday that he would challenge the results of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday as regional markets looked to strong economic signs out…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — With a message that blends Christianity, motherhood and patriotism, Giorgia Meloni is riding…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court has ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to begin his final appeal on Thursday after…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press With much fanfare, ship after ship loaded with grain has sailed from Ukraine after being stuck in the country’s…

By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company bet more on high-tech darling Apple during the second quarter. But it…

By The Associated Press The Federal Aviation Administration says it is reducing flights in the area around New York City because of lack of staffing.…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar General faces nearly $1.3 million in penalties after government inspectors…

The Associated Press Stocks recovered from early losses and ended higher on Wall Street. Investors remain focused on the economy and upcoming reports…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Unity Software, Turquoise Hill fall; Gilead, Moderna…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of pouches of Capri Sun in the U.S. after some cleaning solution accidentally…

Associated Press The top executive at Pfizer, a leading producer of COVID-19 vaccines, has tested positive for the virus and says he is experiencing…

By SAM METZ and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three high-ranking Liberian government officials for…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norway’s exports have reached a record in July that is driven mainly by higher natural gas prices. The Scandinavian country’s…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks on Monday asked the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — The rolling prairie lands of northeastern Wyoming have been a paradise of lush, knee-deep…

The Associated Press Walmart reports its second-quarter results Tuesday. The Federal Reserve releases the minutes from its most recent interest rate…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court has begun hearing a final appeal by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to toss out his graft…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank has trimmed a key interest rate to shore up sagging economic growth at a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in the last quarter as consumer…

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline plummeted 45 cents over the past three weeks to $4.10 per gallon.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sunday studio estimates say the Brad Pitt action film “Bullet Train” led all movies in ticket…

By JOHNSON LAI and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A delegation of American lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, just 12…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A United Nations-chartered ship loaded with 23,000 metric tons of Ukrainian grain…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India’s own Warren Buffett, died Sunday in…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press NOVOSELIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — As battles raged around Kyiv, one Russian advance was…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi energy company Aramco said Sunday its profits jumped 90% in the second…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — For their 16th wedding anniversary, Democrats in Hawaii gifted Josh Green and his wife, Jaime, a…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s peaceful presidential election saw a brief disruption when riot police responded to…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says German businesses and public institutions should heat their offices no higher than 19 degrees…

Shipping companies are preparing to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany’s biggest river near a critically low…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of U.K. train drivers have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike over jobs, pay and…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch financial prosecutors say they have detained a man suspected of involvement in “concealing criminal financial…

By ANDREA ROSA and LUIGI NAVARRA Associated Press SIRMIONE Italy (AP) — Italy’s worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton is laying off almost 800 employees and raising prices for some of its equipment…

By The Associated Press Associated Press Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. confirmed Friday that it’s laying off some of its newsroom staff as part…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Illumina, ResMed fall; Broadridge, Humana…

PRAGUE (AP) — Oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to Czechia have resumed after more than a week. Czechia became the last central…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s gross domestic product contracted 4% in the second quarter of this year, the first full quarter since Russia sent…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, is trimming jobs in an…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two Amazon-owned companies — Ring and Hollywood studio MGM — are teaming to create a TV show in the mold of “America’s…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to extend the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats’ flagship climate and health care…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A judge has ordered a gunman who took up to 10 hostages at a Beirut bank to force the release of his…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s prime minister says European authorities are considering a liquefied natural…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says a search and rescue operation is continuing for a third day for migrants reported missing after…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Foundation took the unprecedented step of issuing $1 billion in debt to help stabilize…

Associated Press Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the U.S. and Canada amid…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Three state-owned Chinese corporate giants say they will remove their shares from the New York…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A ship docked in a Ukrainian Black Sea port on Friday to begin loading up with wheat for…

LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s economy shrank in the three months to June. It’s a smaller-than-expected contraction but adds to…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei says its revenue fell in the first half of 2022 but new ventures in…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The head of Kenya’s electoral commission says vote-tallying in the country’s close…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a choppy week of trading with a broad stock market rally Friday, as the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press DMYTRIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — One of the last working dairy farms on Ukrainian-controlled territory in the eastern…

By SYLVIE CORBET and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press LUX, France (AP) — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed extending the life of the state’s last…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s de-facto leader secured a pardon Friday of his conviction for bribing…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in suburban Portland, Oregon, say they arrested a crime ring leader responsible for trafficking over 44,000 stolen…