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A growing number of cities are passing tax increases to expand access to child care

Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia — the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country

Global shares are trading mostly higher as investors keep their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week

Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces sentencing in a Seattle courtroom

A Taliban-run tourism and hotel management institute has opened its doors to students

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips

Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes and killed 101 people in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news — their property insurance won’t be renewed because their insurance company has deemed the risk too high

Automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all U.S. new passenger vehicles in five years

Sue Bird says becoming a part-owner of the only WNBA franchise she ever played for felt like an inevitability

Stocks edged higher as Wall Street readies for a week packed with potentially market-moving news

The IMF says it will immediately release the final $1.1 billion tranche of a $3 billion bailout to Pakistan

New Mexico has reached a record settlement with a Texas-based company over air pollution violations at natural gas gathering sites in the Permian Basin

Paramount Global announced that Bob Bakish is stepping down as CEO of the film, television and multimedia company

The activist investors trying to take control of Norfolk Southern are picking up key support

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell $1.22 to $82.63 per barrel Monday

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a Vista, California, CBD hemp oil company fighting a lawsuit from a truck driver who says he got fired after using a product falsely advertised as being free from the active ingredient in marijuana

Shares of Tesla stock have rallied after the electric vehicle maker's CEO, Elon Musk, paid a surprise visit to Beijing over the weekend and reportedly won tentative approval for its driving software

One of the winners of a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot this month is an immigrant from Laos who has had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week

Nations have made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution at talks that have concluded in Canada

The value of Japan’s currency has tumbled so much that for a moment on Monday it took 160 yen to equal $1

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Monday: Tesla, Domino’s Pizza rise; AMC Entertainment, SoFi Technologies fall

Congressional negotiators have agreed to help the Federal Aviation Administration hire more air traffic controllers and safety inspectors

Amazon says it's shattering delivery speed records, fast-food restaurants in California are hiking their prices, and Zoom meetings may not have taken the place of in-person business meetings after all.

The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation

The Food and Drug Administration has finalized a rule to regulate medical tests that have long escaped oversight

Medical device maker Philips will pay $1.1 billion to settle personal injury lawsuits in the U.S. over its defective sleep apnea machines

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Elon Musk over a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to get approval in advance of some social media posts that relate to Tesla, the electric vehicle company he leads

Taylor Swift continues to dominate in the week following the release of her 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

California is partnering with a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company to purchase a generic version of Narcan

Two fatal crashes involving Ford’s Blue Cruise partially automated driving system have drawn the attention of U.S. auto safety regulators

There aren't many newcomers in the airline business

Authorities said a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a ship in the Red Sea in the latest assault in their campaign against shipping in the crucial maritime route

South Korea’s opposition leader has pressured President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept special investigations into allegations involving top officials and his wife, as they met for talks on bipartisan cooperation

For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family

Counterfeit purses have been flooding the market for several decades.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has vowed to stay in office and govern “with even more strength."

It took almost a half century for Brazilian singer Cátia de França to find her audience, but she finally has — with the help of a near-obsolete audio technology

Asian shares are trading mostly higher as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week

A data analysis shows Indonesia had a 27% increase in primary forest loss in 2023

Late this year, Aurora Innovation Inc. plans to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks

Older Americans are fueling a sustained boost to the U.S. economy

More workplaces are bolstering their volunteer programs, especially as employee demands grow for socially responsible employers and engagement

Employees increasingly find that robust workplace volunteer programs meet their desires for in-person connections, professional growth and altruistically inclined employers — career objectives that might be missing in conventional corporate atmospheres

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has met with a top government leader in the Chinese capital, just as the nation’s carmakers are showing off their latest electric vehicle models at the Beijing auto show

Nepal is hosting an investment summit, hoping to attract much-needed foreign investment

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion

From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking both to the past and future to respond to climate change

The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition