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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, is…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia has started generating electricity from the controversial mega-dam being built on the Blue Nile. The milestone was…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says people with COVID-19 will not be legally required to self-isolate in…

BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — Investors led by the co-owner of the NBA’s Boston Celtics have bought into Atalanta, the soccer team that has gatecrashed…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say a strain of avian flu has been found at a fourth commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana. The Indiana…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional leaders say China has failed to live up to its promise to buy more Maine lobster under a deal that…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is accustomed to being first in worsts. It’s one of the poorest,…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The $73 million settlement that some of the Sandy Hook shooting victims’ families won…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. secretary of agriculture says that a Russian invasion of Ukraine…

By KARL RITTER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official says Russia would have its access to financial markets…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the world watches the Beijing Olympics, the story of a chained woman who appeared in a…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the world watches the Beijing Olympics, the story of a chained woman who appeared in a…

By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The popular panda mascot of the Beijing Games got into a minor controversy last week when horrified…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. securities regulators responded to allegations that they are harassing Tesla CEO Elon Musk, writing in a letter that they’re…

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Federal inspectors say they found more than 1,000 rodents inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas. The…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese anti-corruption agency is investigating a former general manager of one of the country’s three major state-owned phone…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A report filed in federal bankruptcy court says members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma are willing…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An opal that is bigger than a brick is up for sale this weekend in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines is cutting back again on summer flights because Boeing can’t deliver planes that the airline…

By GLENN GAMBOA and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers Leave it to Elon Musk to stir up controversy without saying (or tweeting) a word. According…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Roku, Shake Shack fall; Exelixis, Bloomin’ Brands…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving indexes with a second weekly loss in a row after another bout of…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona bill that would prohibit government agencies from contracting with firms that refuse to…

By KRISTEN GRIFFITH of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy MacKenzie Scott, who has given at least $8 billion in the past two…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has formally adopted sweeping new rules that will limit the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has accused Russia of being responsible for cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s…

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

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says that Washington is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican…

By STAN CHOE and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve should start raising interest rates next month to help…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed a federal watchdog assailed by former President Donald Trump…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government wants to give people better beer choices. And the Treasury Department, of…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration is considering trying to expel Nicaragua from a…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Lewis Hamilton has called on social media companies to do more to stop the spread of online abuse after…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in January, as a surge in buyers paying cash and…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Audible Inc., a leading force in the booming audiobook industry, will be honored…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The battle to unionize Amazon workers is intensifying after labor officials…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA (AP) — Finance leaders of the world’s biggest economies have called for a well coordinated approach…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — One of the best-known pollution cases ever to emerge from the U.S. drilling and fracking…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — One of the best-known pollution cases ever to emerge from the U.S. drilling and fracking…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet It’s common for couples to butt heads about money once in a while. If you can discuss your differences with honesty…

By ALICE FUNG and DAVID RISING Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Once bustling Hong Kong is languishing amid a strict zero-COVID strategy that has…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines joins New Zealand in its decision to reject Myanmar under the world’s…

By JIM MUSTIAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — To plead the Fifth or not to plead the Fifth. That’s the question facing…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving indexes with a second weekly loss in a…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has sent President Joe Biden a bill averting a weekend government shutdown. The measure…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Protests in Puerto Rico are multiplying as government employees demand higher pay and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will extend restaurant dining hours but maintain a six-person limit on…