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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American…

By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch newspaper reporter has been expelled from Russia, a move denounced as…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is facing allegations of favoritism and…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna is scaling back expectations for the number of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries it expects to make this year and…

BERLIN (AP) — Official data shows that German factory orders, an important indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, made a feeble recovery in…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has set another record for daily coronavirus deaths as it struggles through a long surge of…

By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the fight to curb climate change, several major coal-using…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck’s coronavirus…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam is seeking more information about a Vietnamese oil tanker that was seized at gunpoint…

By DAVID McHUGH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries have decided to stick with their…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s largest labor federation says stable work must be…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s largest pension fund says it has divested from 14 companies involved in…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press SOULAINES-DHUYS, France (AP) — Nuclear power is a central sticking point as negotiators plot out the world’s…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has confounded market expectations and held interest rates steady. It said Thursday…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo says its profit dropped 19% in the first half of its fiscal…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control agency has reported the highest number of new infections with the…

By JOHN FLESHER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MONTICELLO, Minnesota (AP) — Solar is a renewable energy source that can help wean the world off…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares are mostly lower in Asia, with Chinese markets weighed down by concerns over property…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota is reporting a 33% jump in second fiscal quarter profit as it…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find the current economy a bit confusing, don’t worry: So does the nation’s…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities are expecting arrests and criminal charges related to ransomware in the coming…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Cars already know how to park themselves, warn drowsy drivers, steer back into the right lanes and…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico says his country has “serious concerns” about the Mexican government’s attempts to limit…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California farmers say they are having trouble exporting their crops because of delays in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company has finally been ordered to jail, a year after he was extradited from…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Deere executives say the company won’t return to the bargaining table with striking workers because it…

By CARA ANNA and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Facebook says it has removed a post by Ethiopia’s prime minister that urged…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Labor Secretary Marty Walsh says slowdowns and bottlenecks at the nation’s shipping…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas labor leader is apologizing for remarks he made during a legislative hearing comparing…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: CVS Health, T-Mobile rise; Zillow, Activision…

The Associated Press Stocks climbed to more record highs Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it will begin dialing back the extraordinary aid…

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

By JILL LAWLESS and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British-registered scallop boat caught up in a post-Brexit spat between the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the country’s arms makers to develop even more…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find the current economy a bit confusing, don’t worry: So does the…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are blending finger-pointing, optimism and a renewed push to unstick their stalled…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank has made its second interest rate hike in as many months as consumer…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — After nearly a decade of planning, work has started at San Diego International Airport on a $3.4 billion project that will…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Biden administration has announced it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The rate of expansion in the U.S. services sector, where most Americans work, hit a record…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has met with Hungary’s president in Budapest, where…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have announced the arrest of the head of a company suspected of…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to start scaling back the size of some of its…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British homeowners and borrowers are bracing for a possible interest rate increase from the Bank of…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer DoorDash is adding security features to its app to help protect drivers. The San Francisco-based delivery…