Asian shares rise on optimism about US-China trade deal
TOKYO — Asian shares were rising Thursday amid renewed hopes a U.S. trade deal with China may be nearing, despite tough recent talk from President Don...
Hong Kong residents living with tear gas worry of effects
HONG KONG — By day, the small commercial kitchen in a Hong Kong industrial building produces snacks. At night, it turns into a secret laboratory assem...
Judge: Purdue workers should get bonuses, but maybe not CEO
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — More time is needed to sort out whether the CEO of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma should receive a $1.3 million bonus next year, b...
Elon Musk insists no one interpreted tweet to mean pedophile
LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk owned up to insulting a British diver in a rash tweet but wouldn’t concede that he called the man a pedophile.
668,000 will lose food stamp benefits under new work rules
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of Americans who rely on the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration r...
Across generations, French workers fight pensions overhaul
PARIS — Amid the crowds demonstrating in Paris against a planned overhaul of the pension system, a nephew and his uncle will be marching side by side ...
Global stocks turn higher on renewed trade hopes
BEIJING — Global stock markets turned higher on Wednesday on hopes that negotiations toward a U.S.-China trade deal are proceeding despite tough rheto...
Season’s greetings at Sears: Dingy shops, sparse shelves
NEW YORK — Nearly 10 months out of bankruptcy, Sears is limping into the holiday shopping season.
EU climate leadership in doubt as bloc set to miss 2030 goal
MADRID — The European Union said Wednesday that it will likely miss its target for reducing greenhouse gases by 2030, dealing a blow to the bloc’s eff...
OPEC nations grapple with oversupply of oil
The world may be heading for an even greater oversupply of oil, and that possibility — which could drive down fuel and energy prices — is hanging over...
Israeli PM escapes domestic woes to meet Pompeo in Lisbon
TEL AVIV, Israel — Looking to escape his legal and political woes at home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was headed Wednesday toward a war...
Google co-founders step aside as antitrust scrutiny heats up
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s co-founders are relinquishing their executive positions just as state and federal regulators, not to mention the Department o...
Elon Musk tells jurors insult provoked ‘pedo guy’ tweet
LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk testified Tuesday that he was being insulting, not literally calling a British cave diver a pedophile when he lashed out on Tw...
Trump’s US-Japan trade deal wins Japan parliament approval
TOKYO — Japan’s Parliament has approved a trade deal that was agreed upon by President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier thi...
Lebanon’s outgoing PM backs businessman to replace him
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday he supports the nomination of a prominent contractor to become the next premier, a...
Google co-founders step down as execs of parent Alphabet
SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down from their roles within the parent company, Alphabet.
Trump against the world: A snapshot of his trade disputes
WASHINGTON — There are lots of ways, it seems, to land on one of President Donald Trump’s tariff hit lists.
DeVos calls for making financial aid unit a separate agency
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says Congress should consider splitting her department’s financial aid operation into a separate federal agency with t...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s misstatements at NATO summit
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday wholly misrepresented the U.S. record on international trade disputes and dismissed as a mysterious “ru...
Gun background checks are on pace to break record in 2019
Background checks on gun purchases in the U.S. are climbing toward a record high this year, reflecting what the industry says is a rush by people to b...
State of Sandy Hook shooting takes steps to divest from guns
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s treasurer, who oversees $37 billion in public pension funds, announced plans Tuesday to reallocate $30 million worth o...
German authorities search Volkswagen offices in diesel probe
BERLIN — German authorities have searched Volkswagen offices as part of their investigation into the automaker’s manipulation of diesel emission tests...
Trump says China deal could wait until after 2020 election
LONDON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the likelihood of reaching a U.S.-China trade deal before next year’s elections — and then shrug...
Forever war: US and China struggle to defuse trade conflict
WASHINGTON — Businesses and investors have been nervously monitoring U.S.-China trade talks for months, hoping the world’s two biggest economies can d...
France to retaliate if US doubles Champagne, cheese prices
PARIS — France is bristling at a U.S. threat to slap 100% tariffs on French cheeses, Champagne and other products, with the French leader telling Pres...
Iran says it killed ‘rioters’ in deadliest unrest in decades
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that its security forces shot and killed protesters across the country to p...
Millennial Money: Give back without busting your budget
It may not come as a surprise that millennials are passionate about giving back.
Health program offers free HIV prevention drug to uninsured
WASHINGTON — The government launched a new program on Tuesday to provide an HIV prevention drug for free to people who need the protection but have no...
Workers fired from Google plan federal labor complaint
SAN FRANCISCO — Four workers fired from Google last week are planning to file a federal labor complaint against the company, claiming it unfairly reta...
Stocks fall as Trump downplays chances of China trade deal
TOKYO — Global shares turned lower on Tuesday amid pessimism over a standoff between the U.S. and China and new tensions between the U.S. and France o...