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British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is pledging not to return to an era of public spending cuts despite the dire state of the U.K.’s national finances

Alcohol-free beer has been gaining popularity in recent years as beer consumption shrinks

Asian stocks are mostly higher, supported by key rate decisions last week from the U.S. Federal Reserve, Japan, and China

The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Coast Guard as part of its investigation of the maritime disaster

Dick Moss, the lawyer who won the arbitration case that created free agency for baseball players, has died

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom

California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores

It's a three-peat for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

The Federal Reserve gave home shoppers what they hoped for this week: a big rate cut and a signal of more cuts to come

With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it’s all but conquered inflation after three long years

This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party

Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country's cherished plant and animal life

The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the nation into economic ruin

San Francisco's sidewalks were once notorious for sprawling tents belonging to homeless people but are now largely clear

The trial in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph is set to begin in Memphis, Tennessee

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup

The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of trespassing on and damaging a plot of vacant land the company owns in Texas

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to protect dolphins along Mississippi's coast from harm by a spillway used for flood control

Madonna has attempted a semi-stealth entrance to the Dolce & Gabbana runway show draped in a black veil for a runway show referencing her 1990s heyday and celebrating the cone bra

Four Greenpeace activists who were arrested for scaling the country estate of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last year to protest his oil and gas drilling expansion plans have been cleared of criminal charges

The budget motel chain Motel 6 is being acquired by the parent company of Oyo, a hotel operator based in India

The FBI has confirmed that federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse

Federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as cargo ship that collapsed Baltimore bridge, FBI says

The annual New York City Climate Week and United Nations General Assembly that's just about to start are emphasizing how to generate trillions of dollars that will be needed to help poorer countries move away from gas, oil and coal, fuels that release ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet says he's pulling his country out of a development agreement with neighboring Vietnam and Laos following protests that it was benefiting foreign interests

Fall is back, and bringing with it jack-o’-lanterns, football, pumpkin spice everything and, in some parts of the country, especially vibrant foliage

Generative artificial intelligence is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the U.S. presidential election haven’t materialized yet

Vote counting is underway in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as it seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis and political upheaval

Sri Lanka begins voting in a presidential election that will decide direction of recovery from its worst economic crisis

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is scheduled to appear before a congressional committee examining how states are falling short on using welfare to help families in need

Boeing is replacing the head of its defense and space business

A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs has been revived by a federal appeals court

Google has opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government

A record-setting week for Wall Street closed on a quieter note

American Airlines has agreed on a contract extension for ground workers including mechanics and baggage handlers

The federal government is suing some pharmacy benefit managers over a system of drug rebates that regulators say has made the price of insulin soar for patients

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has lost an appeal in a Kenyan labor court

The Conference Board issues its monthly index of U.S. consumer confidence Tuesday

Boeing has started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees as a week-old labor strike by 33,000 union machinists shows no signs of ending

Last year, five people hoping to view the Titanic wreckage died when their submersible imploded in the Atlantic Ocean

The S&P 500 and the Dow vaulted to record highs one day after the rate cut.

The Republican-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don’t want

Shares of Trump Media have slumped to new lows on the first trading day that its biggest shareholder, former President Donald Trump, is free to sell his stake in the company behind the Truth Social platform

The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers

Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction

General Motors is recalling more than 449,000 of its SUVs and pickup trucks because the electronic brake control module software may fail to display a warning light when a loss of brake fluid takes place

The Fed delivered a large interest rate cut this week.

The Biden administration is awarding $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production