AP National Business

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Car rental company Hertz is planning to buy up to 65,000 electric vehicles from Swedish premium electric car…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Automating bill payments and savings deposits can save time, but it can also cause problems if you forget to monitor…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers Tesla CEO Elon Musk owns a 9% stake in Twitter and is now the social media platform’s…

By THIBAULT CAMUS Associated Press CHABLIS, France (AP) — French vintners are lighting candles to thaw their grapevines to save them from a late…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Yearly inflation in Turkey has hit 61.14%, climbing to a new 20-year high and deepening a cost of living crisis for many…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Having escaped from Russian shelling, Ukrainian refugees are now…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NEBI QENA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly lower in Asia and oil prices have risen after a tech-driven rally on Wall Street. Many…

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press LULEA, Sweden (AP) — The steel-making industry is coming under increasing pressure to curb its environmental…

The Associated Press The Commerce Department delivers its monthly snapshot of the nation’s trade gap Tuesday. The Federal Reserve issues the…

By The Associated Press Shortages of some vital drugs have appeared in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 and have persisted throughout…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Airlines have canceled more than 3,500 U.S. flights this weekend and delayed thousands more, citing bad weather in…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s sports minister and the president’s nephew,…

By TOM KRISHER and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — Russia’s devastating war on Ukraine is bringing a whole set of new problems to…

By JOSH BOAK, ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is turning his focus to kitchen-table issues as…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Applebee’s has confirmed that an employee of a Missouri-based franchisee has been fired after sending an email…

The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla said Saturday it delivered 310,000 vehicles in the first quarter, up 68% from the same period in…

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. accident investigators have arrived in China to help authorities look for clues into what caused last month’s crash of a…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s potato growers had such a bumper crop that they’ve been helping out larger…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding payment in rubles for natural gas — or else. Germany is talking about gas…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that California’s landmark law mandating that corporate boards…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is proposing to temporarily double California’s…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new-vehicle sales fell about 12% in the first quarter compared with a year ago, as the global…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Solid hiring, strong wage gains and sharp price increases are drawing more Americans…