AP National Business

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill that would have created the nation’s only universal health care system has…

By DAVID RISING and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — People across Asia prepared Monday for muted Lunar New Year celebrations amid…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times has has bought Wordle, the free online word game that has exploded in popularity and, for some, become a daily…

By DAVID BAUDER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young’s protest against Spotify over podcaster Joe Rogan…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s more than half-million fast food workers would get increased power and…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican New Mexico legislator wants movie actors and other film-set professionals to…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing fresh criticism for his decision to shed his face…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Some of Tesla’s loyal band of devotees and CEO Elon Musk say the White House has been unfairly…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The government of El Salvador has rejected a recommendation by the International Monetary Fund to drop Bitcoin as…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed higher Monday, but still logged its worst monthly loss since the early days of the pandemic. The market…

By TALI ARBEL and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The combination of two storied Chicago news brands has created one of the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lockheed Martin Corp. says it will seek to build new aerial refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force.…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of a Trump-era action, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities say pharmaceutical distributor Cardinal Health Inc. has agreed to pay more than $13 million to resolve…

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — PlayStation-maker Sony is escalating its competition with Xbox-maker Microsoft by buying the video game studio behind one of…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is moving to dismantle the nation’s largest death row by…

NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil is restructuring its business into three divisions and moving its headquarters from Irving, Texas. to its campus north…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing says it has landed a huge new order for planes from Middle Eastern carrier Qatar Airways. Boeing said…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti has wavered on whether he plans to take the witness stand in his own defense at a…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has laid out new guidelines for the disbursal…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar have arrested dozens of people to preemptively suppress plans for a…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s external auditor says the amount that energy sources are taxed…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A group of about 130 former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees and others who…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer When Bridgid Coulter Cheadle started her search for a new Los Angeles office space for her interior design…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s economy entered a technical recession at the end of last year with two consecutive quarters of contraction.…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Many Americans — some traditionally religious, some religiously unaffiliated — are increasingly finding a…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The increasing threat of sea-level rise on Virginia’s coast means that an afternoon rainstorm…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A landslide election victory has opened the door for Portugal’s Socialists to start…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine after…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — An Amnesty International delegation is in Malta this week. They’re calling…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is slapping sanctions on top members of Myanmar’s judiciary and one of its main revenue-producing…

ROME (AP) — Italian police say dozens of businessmen are accused of cheating the government out of 440 million euros in tax credits that were…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging U.S. governors to ramp up their construction plans as his…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Among the biggest challenges to transforming automobiles from combustion engines to electricity to…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian capital has started offering a domestically developed coronavirus vaccine to children…

BERLIN (AP) — The number of air passengers in Germany rebounded somewhat last year but was still two-thirds below levels seen before the…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Adult children typically don’t have to pay their deceased parents’ bills, but if the amounts owed are more than what…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized for lockdown-flouting parties at 10 Downing St.…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch coast guard says rescue helicopters have evacuated all 18 crew members from…

MILAN (AP) — Dolce&Gabbana says it will drop the use of animal fur in all its collections starting this year, and transition to eco-friendly…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro slowed down at the end of last…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economy is projected to grow 8% to 8.5% in the financial year beginning April 1,…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A top Hong Kong official has resigned after he attended a birthday party with 200 guests, at least one…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify is pledging to combat the spread of COVID-19 misinformation as part of a damage-control…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have advanced, mirroring broad overnight gains on Wall Street. Trading in China and…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally, a largely symbolic honor…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Cybersecurity experts say that ransomware attacks on K-12 schools…