AP National Business

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats will push ahead on restraining pharmaceutical prices and extending health insurance…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A day after Sri Lanka’s president fled, Mohamed Ishad…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Republicans are warming up to passing a bill that provides roughly $52 billion in…

The Associated Press Major indexes closed lower on Wall Street Monday after an early gain evaporated in the afternoon. The choppy trading came at the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Goldman Sachs, ODP, Boeing rise; Seagen…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery rose $5.01 to $102.60 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for September delivery rose…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose convictions on corruption-related counts were overturned by a federal appeals…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors will keep its headquarters in its seven-building office tower complex in downtown…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer General Electric is revealing the names of the three companies that will operate on their own after the…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs saw its second-quarter profits fall nearly half from a year…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has handed a mandate to the third-largest political…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices are down about 20% since famed investor Jeremy Grantham warned early this year that…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party is due to be questioned by the…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Delta is ordering 100 737 Max 10 airplanes, the largest of the line produced by Boeing, potentially giving the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank chief has drawn criticism after he was caught on hidden camera discussing inflation and fiscal…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A funding agreement has been reached for the multibillion-dollar redevelopment of New York’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany says a turbine at the center of uncertainty about future gas deliveries through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe was…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America’s second quarter profits fell by 32% from a year ago, the latest bank to report a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russia kept up its relentless shelling across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s renowned Baalbek festival is back and is being held in front of a live audience for the first time since 2019.…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Your mom had a dryer that lasted 30 years. Yours busted after five. Or maybe you’ve lost count of how many coffee…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The economy is a bit wobbly, but General Motors CEO Mary Barra isn’t backing off of an…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece has filed an official complaint with Serbia after a…

By BARBARA SURK and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France and the United Arab Emirates have signed an agreement on energy…

By BOB EDME and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers have promised another 500 millions euros in military aid to…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press ROME (AP) — European leaders have ramped up their push to secure alternative energy…

The Associated Press Netflix reports its second-quarter results Tuesday. The National Association of Realtors issues its June snapshot of U.S. home…

By The Associated Press Across Europe, signs of distress are multiplying as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on. Food banks in Italy are feeding more…

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s acting president has declared a state of emergency that gives him…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday, as investors weighed oil prices, inflation worries and…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BANGKOK (AP) — Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where Thai activists…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say millions of dollars worth of gems and jewelry were stolen from an armored truck last week in Southern California.…

HONG KONG (AP) — Action-packed police thriller “Raging Fire” won best film and three other awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards Sunday, beating…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man says in a class-action lawsuit against Bass Pro that the outdoor outfitter is refusing to honor its lifetime…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Marvel sequel “Thor: Love & Thunder” dropped a hefty 68% in its second weekend of release…

ROME (AP) — Several hundred flights were canceled in Italy on a peak vacation travel day because of a four-hour strikes involving low-cost airlines…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pleas were piling up Sunday in Italy aimed at persuading Premier Mario Draghi to stay in…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS, DEMETRIS NELLAS and JOVANA GEC Associated Press PALAIOCHORI, Greece (AP) — Experts investigated a cargo plane crash in…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Dany Pérez had spent four days in a line of vehicles waiting to fill his truck with diesel he…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press A judge in Tennessee has temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese gambling enclave of Macao has extended its lockdown by five days as it grapples with the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces fired missiles and shells at cities and towns across Ukraine on Saturday…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new…

DALLAS (AP) — A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant has won a $5.1 million verdict against the airline and the union for its flight…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A journalist has settled a lawsuit arguing she was treated unfairly when she lost her job at a North Carolina newspaper amid a…

The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday following some encouraging economic data on consumer sentiment and inflation…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Pinterest, Citigroup rise;  Innovative Industrial Properties…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday blocked a freight railroad strike for at least 60 days by naming a…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell $1.81 to $97.59 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for September delivery rose $2.06…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The company that makes some of the world’s most iconic board games including Scrabble, Monopoly, and Clue is…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press SIGHISOARA, Romania (AP) — Moldova received about 600 million euros in pledges at a donors…

By EETTA PRINCE-GIBSON Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) — Shmuli looks outside the windows of his cellular phone store fearfully. He pulls at…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early next week,…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has reshuffled his top officials, naming a new head of the…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she…

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia county plan to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in favor of three major U.S. drug…

BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports are on strike in the latest of several walkouts that have added to pressures on shipping…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending from May to June,…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has launched talks with all political parties represented in…

By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has intensified its legal standoff with Hungary by…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, saw its second-quarter revenue and profit decline as rising…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is entering five days of political and financial uncertainty after the 5-Star Movement…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers struck a southeastern Ukrainian…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Store associates are handing single carnations to customers as they enter the newly…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s flagship model in Japan, the Crown, is going on sale around the world for the first…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a week of losses with a broad rally for stocks Friday, as investors…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are meeting…

By DANIEL POLITI and DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Business leaders across Argentina are scrambling to deal with a…

By KRUTIKA PATHI, KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister was sworn…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor says direct spending by production companies on films, TV series and…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill in the California Legislature to make social media companies liable for addicting…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit to force billionaire Elon Musk to make good on his promise to buy…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal and Louisiana agencies say the owner of a closed fertilizer plant near Baton…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s inspector general concluded Thursday that financial trades…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Conagra, APA fall; Taiwan Semiconductor, First Republic…

Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday solicited outside help as they craft definitions of old growth and mature…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell 52 cents to $95.78. a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for September delivery fell…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement on a $6 billion…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway now controls nearly 20% of Occidental…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Christopher Waller, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, said…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden is widely expected to name a board of arbitrators to intervene in a freight…

LONDON (AP) — Train drivers at eight British rail companies will go on strike later this month in the second large-scale industrial action set to…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Senior European Union officials have praised small Montenegro for siding with the…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press A new cybersecurity panel created by President Joe Biden says a computer vulnerability discovered last year in a…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Companies hit the brakes on deal-making during the first half of 2022 as concerns over pervasive inflation,…

By TINASHE CHINGARANDE, ELIZABETH FLOOD, SPENCER FRIEDMAN and DANIEL LAWALL / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for…