AP National Business

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s much-anticipated legal pot shops could be a year away from opening. But the state…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has received the backing of his Chinese counterpart…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Google is joining Ford Motor Co.’s effort to transform a…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has celebrated its Independence Day with an appeal by the president…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a container ship that ran aground off a German North Sea island has been towed free a day after it got stuck. The…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A planned $3.4 billion coal-fired power plant in Dubai instead will be converted to use natural gas.…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprising burst of hiring, America’s employers added 467,000 jobs in January…

By DAVID SHARP, KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Investors are snapping up Snap Inc. after the owner of the disappearing message platform Snapchat surprised…

DEMING, Wash. (AP) — Experts from the United Nations are calling on the U.S. government to stop the Nooksack Indian Tribe’s ongoing effort to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The abrupt ouster of CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker because of a workplace relationship has left…

The Associated Press A historic plunge in the stock price of Facebook’s parent company helped yank other tech stocks lower on Wall Street Thursday,…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Meta Platforms, Spotify fall; Humana, Ralph Lauren…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. reversed a loss and rode some big accounting charges to post a $17.94 billion net…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s profits in the fourth quarter nearly doubled, beating analysts’…

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

By FELICIA FONSECA and TED WARREN Associated Press Money that will flow to Native American tribes as part of an opioid drug settlement with a major…

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish parliament has ratified by a single, mistaken vote a landmark labor reform devised by the country’s Socialist-led…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A congressional committee is looking into the controversy over the launch of new high-speed wireless service and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Workers at a General Motors assembly plant in northern Mexico have voted for a new independent union to represent them after…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says people with Medicare will be able to get up to eight…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The United States has delivered two Black Hawk helicopters to Croatia, which is engaged in a mini arms race with neighboring…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When COVID-19 shuttered much of the economy in 2020, Bill Thomas sold off his whiskey…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, U.S. employers might have shed jobs for the first time in about a year,…