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Asian shares are mixed, with Hong Kong's benchmark down more than 4%, after Wall Street rolled to more records

King Charles III will travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the Commonwealth and highlight the existential threat climate change poses for Pacific island nations

Official campaigning has begun for Japan's Oct. 27 parliamentary election

The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected part of a lawsuit challenging a ballot measure that would revoke the license for a planned casino

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking at the pump

Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.”

Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.”

A federal appeals panel has temporarily halted two permits needed to begin construction on a pipeline that will supply a natural gas plant planned in Tennessee

Inflation has returned to normal but varies widely in major swing-state cities.

U.S. stock indexes closed higher on Wall Street, adding to their all-time highs

Dozens of people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza have been arrested in a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange

Stellantis is fixing its slowing U.S. sales at the right pace after fumbling a marketing plan earlier this year, CEO Carlos Tavares told reporters Monday

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86

Auto manufacturers competing to persuade drivers to go electric are rolling out cheaper, more tech-rich models at the Paris Motor Show

Bath & Body Works is apologizing for selling a candle that had packaging that some people said looked like Ku Klux Klan hoods

The government of Congo has canceled an auction for 27 sites earmarked for oil exploration, citing late submissions and a lack of competition

The second largest shareholder of Southwest Airlines is calling for special meeting of shareholders to vote on its slate of eight new directors, which would represent a majority of the struggling airline’s board

Deep underground in northeastern Czech Republic, workers in the region's last-functioning coal mine drill, load and haul the fuel up to the surface. The CSM mine is part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, a region straddling the Czech-Polish border with a 250-year history of mining because of its rich coal deposits and factories that produce steel and energy. With just the light of a headlamp, workers — their bodies and clothes covered in soot and dust — effortlessly navigate the mines, drilling the deposits underground. Others load cars to take the rocks to the surface, where huge piles of it lie ready to be transported to power plants. The work comes with a price: A 2021 study of more than 800 European cities by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health puts the regional capital of Ostrava and the nearby towns where the mine is located among the top 10 most polluted European cities. And when burned for energy, coal contributes to the carbon dioxide emissions warming up the...

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is using GoFundMe to rally its donor network around the survivors of his July assassination attempt and Hurricane Helene’s destruction

Uncle Jim is profoundly red, politically speaking

A regional partnership for Nile River basin countries says an agreement on the equitable use of water resources has come into force despite the notable opposition of Egypt

Britain’s new Labour Party government is announcing $82 billion in investment in U.K. artificial intelligence, life sciences, infrastructure and technology at a business summit

Police in France say four people have died in a car crash after their Tesla vehicle reportedly hit a road sign and caught fire

China’s exports slowed sharply in September as global demand weakened, adding to worries over how to recharge growth in the world's second-largest economy

The Nobel economics prize is awarded to 3 experts for research into differences in prosperity between nations

China’s Premier Li Qiang has inaugurated a Beijing-funded airport built in restive southwestern Pakistan as he arrived for a regional security meeting in the capital, Islamabad

The Nobel memorial prize in economics has been awarded to three U.S.-based academics who studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely to prosper

A tech consultant has gone on trial over a year after the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco

Wall Street rolled to more records as U.S. stocks added to their all-time highs

The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a “Saturday Night Live” origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego

The auto industry "needs to transform," says Volvo exec Vanessa Butani.

China has agreed to assist Vietnam on cross-border railway development and take steps to expand agricultural imports from its smaller neighbor

Macao’s former top judge has been chosen the Chinese casino hub’s next leader

Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has died at age 69

Around 1.4 million homes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are without power almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America’s largest city

The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion

Back in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status

China's finance minister says the government is looking at additional ways to boost the economy, but he didn't unveil a major new stimulus plan at a news conference Saturday

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks 100 days in office on Saturday with little cause for celebration

Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines

A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit filed by one Native American tribe over another’s construction of a casino on what they said is sacred land

TikTok has been aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective

Inflationary-weary shoppers still may wait until the first weather snap to get a basic sweater

CEO Kelly Ortberg announced the plans in a letter to employees on Friday.

Boeing is announcing layoffs

Boeing says it will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production

Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state's largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

The California state Senate has passed a bill aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking at the pump

In a converted warehouse in the poorest zip code in Philadelphia, students are learning to work on older homes, improve the heating and cooling, and at the same time make them more climate-friendly