EU leaders beat a path to Xi’s door seeking China’s help
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on…
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations vowed Sunday…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — Global and Chinese automakers plan to unveil more than a dozen new electric SUVs, sedans and…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Heardle, the name-that-tune game inspired by the Wordle craze, is being dropped by Spotify less than a year after the…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Officials say several cars on a freight train have derailed and caught fire in rural Maine. Three railroad workers…
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Demolition will soon begin on a resort once favored by Elvis Presley and other Hollywood royalty before it was heavily damaged by a…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says it has decided to temporarily prohibit grain and other food…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth…
Continue ReadingBy KOSTYA MANENKOV and SERGEI GRITS Associated Press IMATRA, Finland (AP) — The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s long border…
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Sofia Andrade, a lawyer, chose over the past month to withdraw all her dollar savings from…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A panel mediating between German public sector employers and labor unions has put forward a compromise proposal to avert further…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise France’s retirement age from 62 to 64 has been enacted into law.…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Beijing is protesting U.S. sanctions against additional Chinese companies over their alleged attempts to evade U.S. export controls…
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s first earth observation satellite has been launched into space after two…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Japan and the United States have agreed to cooperate on developing geothermal energy,…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press PUERTOLLANO, Spain (AP) — In Spain, the dream of an emissions-free future for heavy industry starts…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy…
Continue ReadingBy DEBORÁ REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — With trembling hands, the bingo players at a Buenos Aires retirement center put the…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he’s not making much money from his social media…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON — DXP Enterprises: Q4 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s House gave final passage Friday to a bill banning the…
Continue ReadingEDGEWOOD, N.Y. — CPI: Q4 Earnings…
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, British Columbia — CIBT: Fiscal Q2 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Step into a U.S. military recreation hall at a base almost anywhere in the world and you’re bound…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Boeing Co., down $11.88 to $201.71. The airplane maker said…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday as worries about interest rates offset an encouraging start to earnings reporting…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest banks appear to be weathering the current turmoil in their industry just…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery rose 36 cents to $82.52 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for June delivery rose 22 cents…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from The Heavy and Rodrigo y Gabriela, a new Judy Blume…
Continue ReadingESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A contract worker at a northern Michigan paper mill has died from a fungal infection that has forced the business to…
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily keeping in place federal rules for use of an…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government on Friday approved a controversial plan to open the country’s first…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut their spending at retail stores and restaurants in March for the second…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a 52% jump in its first-quarter profits, helped by higher interest rates, which…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK — Citigroup: Q1 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Wells Fargo beat sales and profit targets in the first quarter of the year, a period that saw the collapse of two…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) on Friday reported first-quarter profit of $4.99 billion. The San…
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer UnitedHealth beat first-quarter forecasts and hiked its 2023 guidance for the first time, pushed in part by more…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK — BlackRock: Q1 Earnings…
Continue ReadingMINNETONKA, Minn. — UnitedHealth: Q1 Earnings…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer OTARU, Japan (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street dipped Friday as worries about interest rates overshadowed an encouraging…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — The scent of the Mississippi Delta’s soil took hold of…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The trip by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Beijing…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Andre Blount has been serving food to dignitaries at World Bank headquarters for nearly 10…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They’re the biggest of brands. But with no logos. And that’s the whole point. Call it…
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer SURGUJA, India (AP) — Poonam Gond is learning to describe her pain by numbers. Zero means no pain and 10 is…
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