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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…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed lower Thursday and banks were among the biggest weights on the market following weak earnings and a warning…

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

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…

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 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 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 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 MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week hit its highest level in…

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

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 KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Amazon has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly as it seeks to resolve two…

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…

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 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 offered a $100,000 reward Wednesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of…

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