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BEIJING (AP) — Lindsay Mo couldn’t go to her gym after Beijing shut down indoor sports facilities in May because of a coronavirus outbreak. So…

By DAKE KANG, VICTORIA MILKO and LORI HINNANT Associated Press The birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have closed Tibet’s famed Potala Palace after a minor outbreak of COVID-19 in the Himalayan region. The…

By ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s first leftist president has presented an ambitious tax plan…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture in her back during a hard…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and SHELBY LUM Associated Press DUNCANSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the U.S. and Europe…

The Associated Press Stocks closed flat on Wall Street as investors prepare for a busy week of updates on inflation. The S&P 500 gave up early…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Viatris, First Solar rise; Tyson Foods, Nvidia…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose $1.75 to $90.76 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s an old and new media marriage: Axios Media, the digital news site known for its to-the-point blurbs on…

BERLIN (AP) — Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party rejected a bid to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder over his…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Sometimes the best strategies to deal with inflation align with the best ways to manage your money. For example, delaying…

By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Associated Press Pfizer will spend about $5.4 billion to buy Global Blood Therapeutics as the pharmaceutical giant…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has accused Ryanair of consumer protection violations after it raised ticket prices to cope with a tax on what the…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in up to 10 countries mostly in Africa by 2030 to support…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Monday that each side is shelling Europe’s biggest…

BANGKOK (AP) — The owner of a music pub in eastern Thailand where a fire last week killed 15 people and injured more than three dozen others has…

The Associated Press The Labor Department issues its second-quarter snapshot of U.S. employee productivity Tuesday and its latest monthly index of…

By ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer FLEMING-NEON, Ky. (AP) — Barely a week after floodwaters swept downtown and left a foot of mud and twisted,…

BEIJING (AP) — The capital of China’s Hainan province has locked down its residents for 13 hours on Monday as a COVID-19 outbreak grows on…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week.…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s export growth continued to rise in July, sending trade surplus to a record high. According to data from China’s customs,…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Karen Raschke, a retired attorney in New York, started getting her groceries delivered early in the pandemic.…

By KEN KUSMER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The administration of President Joe Biden and one of Indiana’s largest employers have…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2020, Kelly Jackson and Davina Arceneaux wanted to leave their company jobs and become…

By ALAN FRAM and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic bill toward Senate approval early…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency’s global food price index dropped for a fourth straight month in July, but was still…

By KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chi Kee Sawmill & Timber is Hong Kong’s last operating sawmill. It has been processing wood in…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Twitter says vulnerability in its software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what…

NEW YORK (AP) — Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers. Airlines canceled about…

By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — The U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in July, meaning workers who want a new…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 47 cents to $89.01 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal agency has once again failed to consider possible damage to the environment…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — July’s jobs report was a stunner, in more ways than one. Despite raging inflation and anxiety…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery, which went public in April, missed Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The developer of a major pipeline system has pleaded no contest to criminal charges…

By CORA LEWIS The Associated Press New York (AP) — As inflation skyrockets, hourly workers keep changing jobs in pursuit of higher wages. And with…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican recorded a 3 million euro deficit last year, far less than the 33 million euros projected. But the Holy See said Friday…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with…

Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…

By RISHI LEKHI and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have detained dozens of lawmakers from the opposition Congress…

By AMANDA BARROSO and LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Credit bureau Equifax announced that a computer coding error resulted in the miscalculation of…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes closed mostly lower Friday after a roller-coaster…

ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a half percentage point to 5.4% in its…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer,…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of publishing titan Penguin Random House is defending his company’s deal to acquire…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa and a union representing its ground staff in Germany have reached a deal to end a pay dispute, a week after a one-day…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Clorox, Hostess fall; MGM, Cigna…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing mixed on Wall Street Thursday as investors continued to review the latest updates on the economy and…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The market welcomed Argentina’s new Economy Minister Sergio Massa with what…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Republicans say it’s a “tax and…

GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — An Airbnb listing in Mississippi advertised as a “slave cabin” has been removed from the site following backlash on…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A Florida man who was killed in a traffic crash last month could be the 20th death in the U.S. caused…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KRUGERSDORP, South Africa (AP) — Community members in the South African city of Krugersdorp have beaten…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A U.S. security firm says a cyberattack that temporarily shut down some Albanian…

LONDON (AP) — More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay, in the latest sign of workplace…