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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is warning his country’s people to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Libya says it’s concerned over the struggle for control of Libya’s oil…

By ANITA SNOW and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates were back up this week, just as the latest government data…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia got a boost from European Commission President Ursula von…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese minister is warning that the ruins of the Beirut Port silos, destroyed in a massive…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Millions of Brazilians will get a hefty boost from a measure approved by Brazil’s…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Emirates Air has rejected a demand by London’s Heathrow Airport for airlines to cut the number of…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier, the…

By The Associated Press Twitter appears to be returning for some users after experiencing an hourlong outage that affected both its app and website…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s president has asked Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to form a new government after she…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A major automaker, large truck stop chain and an electric vehicle charging company are proposing a…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s prime minister says her country won’t try to reverse a decision by the European Union’s…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has died at 98. Scalfari helped revolutionize Italian…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Profits at JPMorgan Chase fell by 28% in the second quarter, as the bank tries to navigate an economy that’s showing strength in…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and two of his children — Donald Jr. and Ivanka — are due, in the coming days,…

BERLIN (AP) — Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have met to consider calls to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi offered to step down Thursday after a populist coalition…

By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BEMPOSTA, Portugal (AP) — More than 3,000 firefighters are battling alongside ordinary…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work together…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union expects Russia’s war in Ukraine to wreak havoc with the economic recovery for the…

BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Telekom says it is selling a majority stake in its German and Austrian cellphone tower business to American and Canadian…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Never in the history of warfare have drones been used as intensively…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Share prices were mixed in Asia on Friday after China reported its economy contracted by…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Protesters have retreated from government buildings in Sri Lanka,…

By ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s next finance minister says the left-leaning government…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government is giving American Airlines permission to resume flights to five cities in Cuba outside the capital of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 7-Eleven convenience store chain is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. nuclear regulators say there are no environmental reasons to prevent the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily approved Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve’s top banking…

By The Associated Press Twitter is telling employees that it’s not planning any companywide layoffs, but there could be some restructuring and…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Biden administration is warning pharmacies not to discriminate against women who may seek reproductive health…

By JON MELTZER, LAUREN MOWRY, VICTORIA IFATUSIN and MICHAEL PURDIE / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for Investigative…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Twitter has sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an attempt force him to complete his $44…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix has picked Microsoft to help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Protesters in Hungary’s capital have blocked main traffic arteries for the second day…

The Associated Press Stocks ended another shaky day lower on Wall Street Wednesday after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be…

NEW YORK Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Delta, Fastenal fall; Twitter, Devon Energy…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery rose 46 cents to $96.30 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for September delivery rose…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June. It accelerated. For…

By The Associated Press The euro has hit parity with the dollar, falling to its lowest level in 20 years and even skirting just below a one-to-one…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s agriculture minister warned Parliament on Wednesday that a third of Italy’s agricultural production was at risk because of…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government has declared an “energy emergency” in response to supply…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Democrats are warning of dire consequences if Congress fails to…

BERLIN (AP) — Russian energy company Gazprom appeared to cast doubt on the prospects of quickly restoring the flow of natural gas to full capacity…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Bill Gates, concerned about the “significant suffering” caused by global setbacks including the COVID-19…

LONDON (AP) — British rail workers will go on strike on July 27 over an ongoing pay dispute, a month after the country’s most disruptive railway…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s central bank is raising its target interest rate by a full percentage point in an effort…

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid is driving away from a partnership of nearly two decades with Audi and switching to BMW as one of its main sponsors. The…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has decried the rule of law situation in Poland and Hungary and…

ROME (AP) — Hundreds of taxi drivers in Italy are protesting for a second day against the government’s plans to allow more competition. Since…

By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has unveiled a new package of climate measures to close the emissions gap in the transport and housing sectors…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok are failing to stop hate and threats…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Days ahead of a shareholder vote at Spirit Airlines over a proposed buyout by rival budget carrier Frontier,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has ordered four former executives of the utility operating the tsunami-wrecked…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has chosen former lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz as its candidate to challenge liberal incumbent…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Travel to Europe might be an attractive option to travelers looking for a budget vacation in 2022. In May 2022, airfare…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The summer is off to a profitable start for Delta Air Lines. The airline said Wednesday that it earned $735…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If you’re in the market for a pickup truck, you might be considering a hybrid model with today’s sky-high gas prices.…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI, HANNA ARHIROVA and MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian foreign minister says grain…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Economic Forum reports that a cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women…

By AYSE WIETING, SUZAN FRASER and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Russian and…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s monthly trade surplus soared to a record $97.9 billion in June as exports picked up…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president fled the country Wednesday, plunging a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being called Britain’s most diverse…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president, who had announced he would resign Wednesday, has fled the country after months of turmoil…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Thursday despite a record-setting U.S. inflation report that pointed to…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s central bank has lifted its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to 2.5% as it…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With thousands of sanctions already imposed on Russia to flatten its economy, the U.S. and its…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high in June because of rising prices for…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has slashed financial penalties it assigned a baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Brazil’s foreign minister says the country wants to buy as much diesel fuel as it can…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Physicians and researchers are urging New Mexico legislators to allow the use of psychedelic…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Washington (AP) — A Twitter employee testified that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that…

By MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, trying to force him to complete his $44 billion takeover of the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is closing 16 U.S. stores because of repeated safety issues, including drug use and other disruptive…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal authorities say 1 million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 at…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon will be offering discounts on a variety of items during its two-day Prime Day shopping event that began…

The Associated Press Stocks on Wall Street closed lower Tuesday as investors brace for a big week of news on inflation and company earnings reports.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Canoo, InMode rise; Gap, PriceSmart…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — In a story published July 8, 2022, about Greece and Bulgaria marking the completion of a new pipeline, The Associated Press…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell $8.25 to $95.84 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for September delivery fell…

By RAQUEL REDONDO and HELENA ALVES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Weather forecasters say Spain is expected to have its second heat wave in less…

By The Associated Press A Moscow court has fined Apple 2 million rubles (about $34,000) for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users on…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines says it will earn a pretax profit for the second quarter, and its stock is soaring. Shares of American…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility is seeking proposals for for a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nominations in the race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have closed, with eight…

ROME (AP) — Premier Mario Draghi says his government is still able to get things done despite tensions with the 5-Star Movement. But he warned that…