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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the U.S. and its allies of…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is scraping most pandemic restrictions as the country no longer considers…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has included hefty spending on infrastructure…

BERLIN (AP) — A proposed takeover of German chip supplier Siltronic by Taiwan’s GlobalWafers has fallen through after the German government…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Stock prices in Tokyo and Sydney have followed Wall Street higher while China, South Korea and…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The chief of ExxonMobil’s Cyprus arm says natural gas will remain an important…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Some people in Ukraine’s second-largest city are preparing to…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that blamed overwork and harassment for the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia’s government says it will spend more than $1 billion on converting…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says the threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Angi, Moderna rise; L3Harris Technologies, Kellogg…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill that would have created the nation’s only universal health care system has…

By DAVID RISING and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — People across Asia prepared Monday for muted Lunar New Year celebrations amid…

By DAVID BAUDER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young’s protest against Spotify over podcaster Joe Rogan…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican New Mexico legislator wants movie actors and other film-set professionals to…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s more than half-million fast food workers would get increased power and…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing fresh criticism for his decision to shed his face…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Some of Tesla’s loyal band of devotees and CEO Elon Musk say the White House has been unfairly…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The government of El Salvador has rejected a recommendation by the International Monetary Fund to drop Bitcoin as…

The Associated Press Wall Street closed higher Monday, but still logged its worst monthly loss since the early days of the pandemic. The market…

By TALI ARBEL and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The combination of two storied Chicago news brands has created one of the…