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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have mostly fallen as a resurgence of Russian attacks dashed hopes for any quick end…

BEIJING (AP) — An official survey shows China’s manufacturing activity fell to a five-month low in March after most of Shanghai and two smaller…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ordering the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day…

By HALELUYA HADERO and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers in Alabama appear to have rejected a union bid in…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Australian journalist Cheng Lei went on trial Thursday on espionage charges, with diplomats denied permission to attend.…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of…

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The late Native Hawaiian hula teacher Edith Kanaka’ole is among five women who will be individually featured on…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a conservation group’s proposal to expand bison grazing on…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health advisers have narrowly ruled against an experimental drug for the debilitating…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Federal officials are dropping a health warning that they have attached to sailing on cruise ships since the start…

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON Meta, Facebook’s parent company, hired a Republican consulting firm called Targeted Victory to “orchestrate a…

The Associated Press Stocks ended lower on Wall Street Wednesday, breaking a four-day winning streak but keeping major indexes in the green so far…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi could become the final state to enact a law requiring equal pay for…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Chewy, UniFirst fall; Lululemon, Cal-Maine…

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

By JOSH BOAK and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is looking at invoking the Defense Production Act this week to…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — What’s immune to high inflation? So far, the profits at big U.S. companies. Companies have…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, HALELUYA HADERO, and JAY REEVES BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — After a crushing defeat last year, the Retail, Wholesale and…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has voted to end its mandate for many indoor businesses and…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A suspect in the Vatican’s big embezzlement and fraud trial has testified that Pope…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The U.S. subsidiary of a Thailand-based petrochemical giant has repaid Ohio’s private…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There are now more Mexican gray wolves roaming the southwestern U.S. than at any…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Waymo’s self-driving ride-hailing service is branching out to San Francisco. The Alphabet, Inc., autonomous vehicle unit…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The CVS drug store company and pharmaceutical companies will pay Florida a combined…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister has accused Ukraine’s leadership of attempting to…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer For decades, the free flow of trade across much of the world allowed the richest nations to enjoy easy access to…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Central Bank’s president says no data currently suggests that Europe will fall into stagflation, which is…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia has announced a $5 billion aid package to cash-strapped Egypt, where the economy is under…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gotten a second booster dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine, and he used the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy ended 2021 by expanding at a healthy 6.9% annual pace from October…

BERLIN (AP) — Russia is demanding payment in rubles for its natural gas exports to Europe. And that is rattling markets already in turmoil because…

BERLIN (AP) — BioNTech has reported another quarter of strong earnings growth. The German pharmaceutical company teamed with Pfizer to develop the…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Retirement planning is part savings, part guessing game. How much will you need? While many of your day-to-day expenses…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds As new and used vehicle transaction prices continue to hit record highs due to a nationwide vehicle shortage, many people…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Members of Portugal’s center-left Socialist Party have been sworn into office for the…

By BASSAM HATOUM and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says more than 4 million refugees have fled…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government’s panel of independent economic advisers has slashed its 2022 growth forecast for Europe’s biggest economy…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s flagship airline has announced a plan to raise $1.5 billion to hire…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Austria have activated early warning plans amid concerns that…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press MONGLA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladeshi town stands alone to offer new life to thousands of climate migrants.…