AP National Business

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — E-commerce giant Alibaba Group says it will spend $15.5 billion to support President Xi…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have become obsessed with collectibles, bidding up prices for trading cards, video games…

By FARAI MUTSAKA and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Young people across Africa are battling an economic downturn caused by…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Britain is rushing 4 million Pfizer doses to Australia, where authorities are scrambling…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks closed mostly lower on Wall Street Friday following a weak jobs report, but gains for a handful of Big Tech…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Intensive care beds are full of unvaccinated coronavirus patients at a hospital in Boise,…

By SAM METZ and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press/Report for America STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — Some Lake Tahoe residents who fled a raging wildfire…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Apple has recently eased some longstanding restrictions that helped make its App…

By HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writers Following Hurricane Ida, mutual aid networks sprang into action to supplement the more…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added just 235,000 jobs in August, a modest gain after two…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas school district officials say a data breach exposed personal student, parent, teacher and staff information dating to 2010. In…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters to promote…

NEW YORK (AP) — Published reports say executives at a New York hedge fund have agreed to pay as much as $7 billion to settle a long-running dispute…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in what prosecutors called a “textbook Ponzi scheme” that…

By MELINDA DESLATTE and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A critical port that serves as the primary support hub for the Gulf…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two of the industry’s biggest poultry companies have agreed to pay nearly $35 million to…

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

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hundred years have passed in West Virginia since a mine industry conflict sparked the…

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a revised settlement with U.S. Steel, more than four years after one of the steelmaker’s…

The Associated Press Stocks recovered from an afternoon stumble and ended with modest gains Thursday, enough to mark more record highs for the…