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ATLANTA (AP) — The son of R&B legend Gladys Knight has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Peloton has suffering its worst day as a publicly traded company. The sell-off came after…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament has approved new labor laws on working from home. The regulations introduce additional protection…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has filed charges of espionage and attempted state overthrow against five people who were allegedly part of a hackers…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Kingdom has rejected European Union proposals to streamline the trade of goods in…

By DAVID A. LIEB, GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The attorneys general of 27 states have filed…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have seized four plots of land owned by the youngest son of…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China has criticized a press freedom survey from the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club that…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by…

By NICO GARRIGA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French fisherman Hermann Outrequin gave up his fishing company job and…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court has handed Russia at least a temporary victory in its appeal…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda has lowered its profit and vehicle sales forecasts for the fiscal year,…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks pushed further into record heights on Friday following an…

By TOM KRISHER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers The sweeping Biden administration’s new COVID-19 mandate will apply to 84 million workers…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The president of Japanese video game maker Nintendo says the shortage in computer chips needed to…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — While people are now able to travel freely in Australia’s more populated east,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers boosted their hiring in October, adding a solid 531,000 jobs,…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska state corporation that was the main bidder in an oil and gas lease sale in the…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have voted to increase the capacity of a Los Angeles-area natural gas…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Airbnb has reported a strong third quarter with record profit and revenue as more people get vaccinated and return…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber has posted a big rebound in third-quarter revenue thanks to riders and drivers returning from pandemic lockdowns, but its…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is holding its much-anticipated auction for build-out of the nation’s…

The Associated Press Stocks wound up a mixed bag on Wall Street Thursday, but big gains in several technology giants helped push the S&P 500 and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Qualcomm, Electronic Arts rise; Moderna, Roku…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says a new project trumpeted by U.S. President Joe Biden in which…

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

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead…

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A tiny house in a Boston suburb has sold after about a month on the market for far less than the original asking price of…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sharp rent increases in many parts of the country are eating up a bigger share of Americans’…

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric has reached a $125 million settlement agreement with California regulators over the destructive…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s capital city says it will no longer serve meat at seminars, staff meetings, receptions…

MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Belarus have signed an array of measures to deepen the integration of the two countries but stop short…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead…

PARIS (AP) — British and French negotiators looking to untangle a post-Brexit spat over fishing licenses have met in Paris and expect to talk again…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general are forming a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A senior official with Hungary’s ruling party has acknowledged for the first time that…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Food banks have ramped up their output during the coronavirus pandemic to meet an explosion of…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted American Girl dolls and the strategy board game Risk, recognizing each for their…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. economy rebounds from the ongoing pandemic, many women…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The leaders of four Central European nations have met in Hungary’s capital where they…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has again sharply increased its key interest rate by a point and a quarter to 2.75% to tackle…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week following…

ROME (AP) — The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization says world food prices are the highest since July 2011, reflecting reduced…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is to hold a snap election for a new parliament and government on Jan. 30.…

BERLIN (AP) — AstraZeneca says it is withdrawing its application for approval of its COVID-19 vaccine in Switzerland because the country’s…

By The Associated Press Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday announced new…

GENEVA (AP) — A diamond bracelet that once belonged to France’s Marie Antoinette and jewels that dangled from a Russian grand duchess are among…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a fresh pandemic low last…