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PRAGUE (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has pledged to draft an emergency plan aimed at helping member countries do without Russian…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to…

By FRANK GRIFFITHS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed against the British’s government decision…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019,…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. financial analyst Peter Schiff says he will fight to be able to sell a bank he…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Last July, a federal judge in West Virginia heard closing arguments in the first lawsuit to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican said Friday it had finalized the sale of a London property that is the focus of a…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The chief of the Dutch central bank has apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has handed full control over a major oil and natural gas project partly owned by Shell and two…

By FRANK GRIFFITHS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is dealing with another boozy scandal after…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Swedish luxury vehicle maker Volvo Cars plans to build a new European plant in eastern Slovakia. The country’s…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has accused her then-manager of trying…

ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s media watchdog has banned access to the Turkish services of U.S. public service…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Summer travel is underway across the globe, but a full recovery from two years of coronavirus…

By OLEG CETINIC and BOUBKAR BENZEBAT PARIS (AP) — Flights from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and other French airports are facing disruptions…

By The Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Ng brothers, fishermen living in the remote Hong Kong village of Tai O, have carried on with their…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks on Wall Street shook off a downbeat start and ended broadly higher Friday, though the…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president is back at it, doubling down on his country’s losing investment…

DALLAS (AP) — Airlines facing a pilot shortage are boosting pay. The CEO of American Airlines said Thursday that his airline has offered to raise…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons…

By KEVIN FREKING and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened Thursday to derail a bill…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California agency has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to move forward with a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is letting states set their own standards for meal and rest breaks by airline crews. On Thursday, the…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The family of an 11-year old boy who died on a water ride at the Altoona, Iowa amusement…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California may turn to fossil fuels to avoid blackouts during hot weather that…

The Associated Press Stocks fell again on Wall Street Thursday, closing out the worst quarter for the market since the onset of the pandemic in early…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle charges it falsified information about deliveries of international…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate…

DETROIT (AP) — Starting in about two years, all new semi trailers in the U.S. will have to have stronger guards to stop cars from sliding under…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s climate change ruling on Thursday is likely to hinder President Joe…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Walgreens, Duck Creek fall; Spirit Airlines, Lindsay…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell $4.02 to $105.76 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for August delivery fell $1.45…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The inaugural class of the Detroit Apple Developer Academy, a free program that teaches…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities have announced a suspension of the operations of Puerto Rico-based Euro…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says his country has sent a letter of request to the United States to buy a squadron of F-35…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Associated Press board chair Frank Daniels Jr. has died at 90. His son says he…

By ALEX VEIGA and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers Americans with stock portfolios or retirement investment plans would likely prefer to forget the last…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a long-standing precedent that allowed…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Airlines that have stumbled badly over the last two holidays face their biggest test yet of…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A cyberattack on a software company has disrupted unemployment…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says gun cases involving restrictions in Hawaii, California, New Jersey and Maryland deserve a new look…

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general has found the sale of a couple thousand acres of prime farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates…

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Spirit Airlines are rising after the budget airline postponed a vote on a merger with Frontier for the second time.…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A patched-up dispute between the European Union and Poland over judicial independence has revived. A top EU official said…

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock. The sleek Mayflower…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The rust-colored tower rising from an industrial site near the banks of Berlin’s Spree river…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish Parliament-appointed commission has harshly criticized the country’s government for its decision to cull…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates eased back this week after shooting up nearly three-quarters…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and New Zealand say they have concluded a free trade deal after four years of negotiations. According to the EU,…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.3% in May from…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A big opioid settlement and a COVID-19 vaccine slowdown helped drop Walgreens’ fiscal third-quarter earnings, but…

MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, reflecting a still robust job…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona says it has sold some of its television rights for more than 200 million euros to help its finances. The Catalan…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of RH are down 9% at the opening bell after the luxury furniture store chain cut its sales expectations…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor says he suspects that Russia may not resume gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline…

MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given final approval to a bill that would allow the banning of foreign news media in…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has decided to reverse plans to halt mining in a key black coal region to help the country safeguard its power…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Experience may be the best teacher, but I wish I’d learned the following strategies before I became an unwitting…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s central bank has raised a key interest rate by half a percentage point to combat rapidly rising inflation and…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Europe has moved to lead the world in regulating the freewheeling cryptocurrency industry at a time…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch flag carrier KLM says it is repaying the last portion of loans it got from the Netherlands government and banks…

BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai is moving to allow in-person dining and reopening its Disney Resort theme park as domestically transmitted cases of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks were mostly lower on Friday, echoing a decline on Wall Street, after a quarterly…

By DAVID RISING and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka’s strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the…

BEIJING (AP) — An official survey shows China’s factory activity accelerated in June after anti-virus controls were eased and Shanghai and…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amos Hochstein, President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems, says he knows…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The main union for Atlantic City casino workers reached agreements on new contracts with…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Puerto Rico are raising electric rates again — the seventh time in a year amid continuining power…

SAO PAULO (AP) — The head of Brazilian state-run bank Caixa Economica Federal has resigned amid a sexual harassment investigation against him. A…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a growing recognition of the newspaper industry’s problems among politicians and…

The Associated Press Stocks ended mostly lower on Wall Street Wednesday, keeping the market on track for its fourth monthly loss this year. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: McCormick, Capital One fall; General Mills, Patterson…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teenager wounded during a mass shooting at Oxford High School in…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has thrown out the 2020 conspiracy and bribery convictions of a…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell $1.98 to $109.78 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for August delivery fell…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in former President Donald…

By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas drilling…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines.…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan finance and central bank officials from the Taliban-led government have…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has the second reading of a proposed law that would allow the…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The new head of the government’s road safety agency says he will intensify efforts to understand…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, is reopening talks about the future of the…