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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. has reported its operating profit rose 12% in the April-June quarter thanks to strong demand for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday following a broad rally on Wall Street, but Hong…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s push to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a former gold mine key to the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — New forecasts by Australia’s government say runaway inflation will remain unacceptably…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press A new report by says many of the world’s biggest banks are falling far short of aligning their practices with the…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When General Motors went through the biggest industrial bankruptcy proceedings in history,…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dave Muffley thought he had it made when it came to a solid retirement. The Indiana man spent…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell delivered a tough message at the start of a news conference Wednesday:…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean off Southern…

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — NFL owners will decide on Aug. 9 whether to approve the proposed $4.65 billion…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, posted its first revenue decline in history Thursday,…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s net income rose 19% in the second quarter as the company pulled together enough…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., up $2.02 to $9.14. The drugmaker agreed…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials say Southwest Airlines and its pilots union have resisted some investigations…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have taken legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and its CEO Mark…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Now that the Mega Millions lottery jackpot has topped $1 billion — only the fourth…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First, her father was lured back to Rwanda under false pretenses and jailed. Then, months…

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A British man aboard a flight from London to Los Angeles grabbed a passenger seated in front of him by the…

By ROBERT BUMSTED Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ah, the bacon, egg and cheese. The classic bodega breakfast sandwich is a staple in many a New…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against five media…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press Employees at a Trader Joe’s in Massachusetts are casting votes over the next two days in an attempt to form the…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration says a comprehensive review of the opioid…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The head of the U.S. government aid agency has called on China to help Sri Lanka and other…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun makers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is caught in an awkward, painful place. A confusing one, too. Growth appears…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines are abandoning their merger proposal, which opens the way for JetBlue…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Railroads will be required to maintain two-person crews under a new rule announced Wednesday…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty…

By SAM KEMMIS NerdWallet The availability of remote work has increased significantly in recent years, giving rise to the ability for telecommuters to…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds In the early days of the modern electric vehicle, or EV, your choices were largely limited to a few range-compromised models…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday after the Federal Reserve ratcheted up its…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom has halved the amount of gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of grain trapped in Ukraine, despite a breakthrough…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch farmers are protesting government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions. The…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights were canceled Wednesday because of a one-day strike by the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Wednesday as traders prepared for a possible sharp…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, its rows of soft white feathers…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Drugmaker Teva has announced an agreement to settle lawsuits over the allegations that it helped fuel the U.S.…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over…

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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa says its fiscal third quarter profits rose 32% from a year earlier, helped by yet another…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s revenue growth during the past quarter decelerated to its slowest pace in…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $16.7 billion, or $2.23 per share, falling short of analyst…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Shutterstock Inc., down $4.68 to $54.40. The stock images and video provider…

NEW YORK (AP) — Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won…

By RANDALL CHASE and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Twitter has set September 13 as the date for its shareholders to vote on…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy has contracted for two straight quarters, intensifying fears that the…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shopify is cutting 10% of its staff, or about 1,000 employees, as the e-commerce…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Port of Savannah saw record-breaking cargo volumes this past fiscal year amid a surge in…

Associated Press Amazon is raising its Prime fees in Europe, the company told customers on Tuesday, days ahead of its second quarter earnings report.…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has announced it is acquiring the stock in an Arctic oil field now held by French and Norwegian companies. The Russian…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers A tech millionaire offered to buy it. A U.S. senator suggested that the government should…

By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain is easing requirements for foreign laborers to obtain work permits in an effort to bring…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Volkswagen has begun production of its first electric vehicle assembled in the United States at a Tennessee plant. The…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press President Joe Biden wants to convince a skeptical public that the U.S. is not, in fact, heading into a recession.…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is caught in an awkward, painful place. A confusing one, too. Growth appears…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA NerdWallet Millennials are known for changing jobs often, but how does that affect their retirement savings? That depends on…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence slid again in July as concerns about higher prices for food and gas…

LONDON (AP) — Unilever says it raised prices by more than 11% between April and June as inflation surged. The consumer goods giant said Tuesday…

By KIM COOK Associated Press The thermostat has officially hit swelter. Whether you’re trying to play in the backyard or just chill outdoors,…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Business leaders and officials from eight developing nations meeting in Bangladesh say…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Coca-Cola posted higher-than-expected sales in the second quarter due to price increases and higher demand at…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa says it will have to cancel almost all flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs Wednesday because of a strike by its…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ second-quarter net income fell 40% from a year ago as computer chip and parts…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney for the parents of one of the children who were killed in the Sandy Hook…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Foundation, created with wealth generated from the oil industry more than a…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments have agreed to reduce consumption of natural gas this winter to protect against further supply cuts by…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia’s first outbreak of COVID-19 has grown in one week to more than 1,000…