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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) — Millions of dollars worth of gems and jewelry were stolen in an armored truck robbery 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 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…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian authorities say anthrax has been confirmed in dozens of cattle found dead in a nature park southeast of the…

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 ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Financial leaders of the Group of 20 richest and biggest economies agreed on the need to…

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…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired back Friday at Twitter’s lawsuit seeking to force him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of…

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

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

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economy contracted in the three months ending in June compared with the previous…

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 first-of-its-kind proposal in the California Legislature aimed at holding social media…

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…