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NANJING, China — Tuniu: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By GERALD HERBERT and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. (AP) — Officials with the Biden administration have visited a Louisiana wildlife refuge touting plans to clean up and plug “orphan wells.” Around 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across the U.S. pose pollution threats. But their operators are bankrupt, can’t

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on Friday, trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French President Emmanuel Macron’s government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase he’s trying to impose without a vote in

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Hallador Energy: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says hats off to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for “making a difficult decision and action” by overcoming the troubled history between the two countries, pledging to work with him toward better future relations. Yoon has urged closer cooperation with

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Friday to end a whipsaw week on Wall Street amid rising fear among investors that turmoil in the banking industry could drag the economy into a recession. The S&P 500 sank 1.1%, cutting into its gain for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation’s Parliament will be banned from having the TikTok app on their government phones. The ban announced Friday follows similar moves in many other countries. However, New Zealand’s ban will apply only to about 500 people in

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia said it’s planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State Department approved the sale Friday. The deal comes days after Australia announced it would buy nuclear-powered attack submarines from the U.S. to modernize its fleet amid growing concern about China’s influence

NEW YORK — Revlon: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval this week of the largest new oil project in years on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope has immediately been met by lawsuits seeking to stop the Willow project. Lawsuits filed by environmental groups and an Alaska Native organization seek to overturn Monday’s approval

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is infusing artificial intelligence tools into its suite of office software, including Word, Excel and Outlook emails. The company said Thursday the new feature, named Copilot, is a processing engine that will allow users to do things like summarize long emails, draft stories in Word

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press TikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-sharing app with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday accused the United States itself of spreading disinformation about TikTok’s potential

LEHI, Utah — Purple Innovation: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By The Associated Press Federal investigators say an air traffic controller cleared a plane to take off from Sarasota, Florida, while an American Airlines jet was making its final approach to the same runway last month, leading the American pilots to abandon their landing. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that the American and

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST.. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators said Thursday they’re monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant, and the company said there’s no danger to the public. “Xcel Energy took swift action to contain the leak to the

SAN FRANCISCO — Blend Labs: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserves says cash-short banks have borrowed about $300 billion in emergency funding from the central bank in the past week. Nearly half the money — $143 billion — went to holding companies for the two major banks that failed over the past week, Silicon

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Geron: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Adobe Inc., up $19.68 to $353.29. The software maker’s fiscal first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street forecasts. Five Below Inc., down $2.84 to $195.33. The discount retailer gave investors a disappointing profit and revenue forecast for the year. First Republic Bank, up