AP National Business

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British pound has went on its biggest one-day drop in 2 1/2 years…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Kremlin-orchestrated referendum got underway Friday in occupied regions of Ukraine that…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks fell sharply worldwide Friday on worries an already slowing global economy could fall…

NEW YORK (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s father, Donald Blinken, a former U.S. diplomat, investment banker and modern art collector,…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Standing in line to try to buy food, Rekha Begum is distraught. Like many others in…

COLON, Panama (AP) — The unveiling of a futuristic luxury model home on Panama’s Caribbean coast tanked when the SeaPod Eco prototype perched…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge sentenced an Arizona woman on Thursday to six years in prison for using a…

By MALLIKA SEN and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As a NATO member and neighbor of Russia, Norway’s geographical and…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing Co. will pay $200 million to settle charges that the company and its former CEO misled investors about the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen heads to the Durham, North Carolina, area next Tuesday as part…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Actions by Facebook and its parent Meta during last year’s Gaza war violated the rights of Palestinian…

The Associated Press Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, deepening their losses for the week, as central banks around the world raised interest rates…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Steelcase, Darden fall; Lennar, Salesforce…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press BNSF Railway says in a federal lawsuit that victims of an Amtrak derailment in Missouri should be required to…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are ordering Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy to testify in the…

The Associated Press Federal regulators failed to show that UnitedHealth Group’s purchase of technology company Change Healthcare will likely hurt…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The COVID pandemic forced most U.S. casinos to close for months, causing payrolls,…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death in…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — After several seasons affected by coronavirus restrictions, Milan Fashion Week is back to its…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s governing party says it wants to poll the country’s citizens on whether…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A man who was apparently caught on video slugging a flight attendant in the back of the…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A rare bear market in bonds hasn’t gotten much attention, but it may be inflicting more pain on…

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United is set to reduce its activity in the transfer market in upcoming windows following an overhaul of the…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Activist investor Ancora Holdings Group is pushing for the removal of both the chairman…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford is restructuring its vehicle development and supply chain operations, shuffling multiple…

Associated Press The U.S. Federal Reserve has been the most aggressive in using interest rate hikes to cool inflation that is battering both…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped by more than a quarter-point this week to their…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks returned to Capitol Hill for a second day Thursday, and…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled banks have decided to remain indefinitely closed after rejecting a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose slightly last week despite the Federal…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press CHURDAN, Iowa (AP) — In the 1970s when George Naylor said he wanted to grow organic crops, the idea…

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. because the windows can pinch a person’s fingers when being rolled…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish and Estonian rescue officials say a crude oil tanker caught fire in the Gulf of Finland, but the crew was able to…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and Target plan to begin offering deals and price matching offers earlier this…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials say the world’s biggest trading bloc is determined to impose more…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has confirmed it is lifting a ban on fracking in England, arguing that the move…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “massive…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank has intervened to stem the yen’s decline against the U.S. dollar. Earlier Thursday, the dollar rose…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate by a quarter-percentage point as other banks around the…