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WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates jumped this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan again breaching 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A former Boeing test pilot has been indicted on fraud charges related to his work in evaluating…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California insurance pool is appealing a judge’s order that it offer homeowners…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it will allow up to 800 more foreign butchers work in the U.K. on…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Scientists and other workers at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: UnitedHealth, Bank of America rise; Occidental, Boeing…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is warning of rising threats to a global recovery posed…

By EMILIO SANABRIA and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press HERNANDARIAS, Paraguay (AP) — The gigantic Itaipu hydroelectric dam straddling the…

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

ROME (AP) — It’s the end of business for Italy’s bankrupt national carrier Alitalia, and an end of an era for Italy. Alitalia is flying…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say they are cracking down on what they’re calling an explosion of…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will ask its outside experts to review Merck’s…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Domino’s Pizza says shortages of cooks, drivers and other staff are pinching sales…

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Industrial gas supplier Air Products has announced it will build a $4.5 billion clean…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says airlines that fly would-be migrants to the European Union to Belarus should ask themselves whether…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. customers will likely pay another $224 million a year for the first of two nuclear…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top U.S. trade official says the Biden administration remains committed to an easing of rules that…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caesars Entertainment and the company that produces the show “Absinthe” in Las Vegas…

Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Vermont family has filed a lawsuit against Disney Cruise Lines, saying their 3-year-old daughter was…

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is betting that international travel will rebound in a big way by next summer. The airline said Thursday that it…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft says it is shutting down its main LinkedIn app in China later this year following tighter…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says he has discussed the Russian media situation in Belarus…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press A panel of U.S. health advisers has endorsed booster shots for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The Generosity Commission, funded by more than $2 million in grants from…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Big corporations’ eye-popping profit growth is starting to slow, eroding the support…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry concedes upcoming climate talks are likely to fall short of…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Despite renewed attention on efforts to diversify hiring in journalism since George Floyd’s…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold for $1.4…