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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say one person was killed and seven others injured in an explosion aboard an oil tanker. The Hong Kong…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Congress is poised to vote on a constitutional reform that would undo much of a 2013 market opening in electrical…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A commercial oil tanker carrying more than 750 tons of diesel has run aground and…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Employees at two Verizon stores north of Seattle in Everett and Lynnwood have won their union election, making them the first…

DENVER (AP) — A jury has acquitted Denver-based dialysis firm DaVita Inc. and former chairman and CEO Kent Thiry of charges they conspired with…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover attempt with a “poison pill” — a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s findings that illusionist David Copperfield and the…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Twitter said Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a…

By COLLEEN BARRY and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger in the French…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of California grocery store workers have approved a new contract with major supermarket chains, avoiding a potential…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Lebanese foreign minister says Lebanon is ready to work with Cyprus to exploit…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal is running low on foreign currency reserves needed to import medicines, oil…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The owners of the Chicago Cubs have dropped their interest in buying Chelsea. That leaves three remaining known…

By JOSH BOAK and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he plans to nominate Michael Barr to be the Federal…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will remove most pandemic restrictions, including indoor gathering limits, as it slowly wiggles out of an…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samantha Moala recalls she was taking a shower at her home in Tonga when she heard…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines and its pilots’ union are fighting over changes that the airline plans to make in how pilots train…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A major fertilizer company says the limits Union Pacific is putting on rail traffic to clear up…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is facing renewed pressure from a hedge fund to speed up its…

By The Associated Press Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk now says he wants to buy Twitter outright, taking it private to restore its commitment to…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Recreational marijuana sales in New Jersey for those 21 and older will begin April 21.…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — José Mauro Coelho has taken the leadership as president of Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras. Coelho is the state-run…

The Associated Press Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Thursday as investors gave mixed reviews to earnings from four of the nation’s largest…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: US Bancorp, Morgan Stanley rise; Tesla, Wells Fargo…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The average salary in the major leagues rebounded to $4.4 million on opening day, boosted by a…

The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two House committees have launched an investigation into the government’s…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of mistakenly shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at…

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters have contained a massive blaze at a central California food processing plant that prompted authorities to tell…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates continued to climb this week as the key 30-year loan rate reached 5% for the first time in more…