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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has raised key interest rates to 14.50% and 15.50%…

ANTONIO CALANNI and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GENOA, Italy (AP) — Fifty-nine people are on trial in Italy for the 2018 collapse of Genoa’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is giving nearly $1 billion to 85 airports to expand and upgrade terminals and other facilities, using…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is shelving a COVID-19 measure that has resulted in dozens of canceled flights in recent…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government has dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of a lawyer over his…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Friday after two Federal Reserve officials said…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic announced Wednesday that it is partnering with a Boeing subsidiary…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration and Juul have agreed to put their court fight on hold while…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Amazon will give its U.S. Prime members free access to meal delivery service Grubhub for a year under a deal…

The Associated Press Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street Wednesday following the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Kornit, DoorDash fall; Resolute Forest, Broadcom…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A company that has performed appraisals on some of Donald Trump’s most prized properties has…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. pharmacists can now prescribe the leading COVID-19 pill directly to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials were concerned at their meeting last month that consumers…