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A new report by the rights group Global Witness says Facebook’s recommendation algorithm amplifies military propaganda and other material that breaches the company’s own policies in Myanmar following the country’s military coup

John McAfee, creator of McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that represents 1.4 million workers, is setting its sights on Amazon

A drought blanketing the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving famers scrambling for water

The Supreme Court has sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation that gives unions access to farm property in order to organize workers

McAfee was going to be extradited to the U.S. for fraud charges.

Change is coming in the leadership of Southwest Airlines

A listless day on Wall Street ended with indexes mixed on Wednesday, as nervousness continues to wash out of the market following last week’s jolt by the Federal Reserve

The Supreme Court has ruled that the structure of the agency that oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac violates separation of powers principles in the Constitution

Stocks drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street Wednesday, after tentative gains earlier in the day brought the S&P 500 back near a record high

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Nikola, Occidental rise; Patterson, Lennar fall

Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels

The U.K.’s travel industry has held a day of action to put pressure on the British government to accelerate the reopening of the sector and to provide cash-strapped businesses with much-needed financial support

Wall Street’s big investment banks are sending a message to their employees this summer: Get back into the office and bring your vaccination card

Buryatia, a republic in Siberia, has become the first Russian region to announce a lockdown because of a surge in coronavirus infections

Buffett was one of just three trustees at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Hong Kong’s sole remaining pro-democracy newspaper will publish its last edition Thursday

Warren Buffett resigned Wednesday as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which says it will announce plans in July to answer questions raised about its leadership structure

The United States and Germany are struggling to resolve a major dispute over a Russian gas pipeline even as the Biden administration seeks to improve relations with western Europe that had been strained during Donald Trump's presidency

Sales of new homes fell 5.9% in May, the second monthly decline, while median home prices kept soaring, hitting an all-time high

France is adding Russia to its “red list” of countries from which travels are banned unless it is for urgent reasons as they are struggling with virus surges and worrisome variants

The Czech Republic’s central bank has increased its key interest rate by a quarter-point to 0.5% in efforts to tame inflation as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic

Germany’s Cabinet has approved plans for a 2022 budget that foresee an increase in new debt as spending on health and fighting climate change rises

Small businesses that endured shutdowns and revenue drops during the COVID-19 outbreak now must contend with another crisis: spiking prices for goods and services that squeeze profits and force many owners to pass the increases along to customers

German biotech company CureVac says its founder has withdrawn his candidacy for the supervisory board for health reasons

The tech industry is under mounting pressure in Washington

The pandemic is giving Italy a chance to revamp its underperforming economy

American authorities have seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites they accuse of spreading “disinformation."

A new report by the rights group Global Witness says Facebook’s recommendation algorithm amplifies military propaganda and other material that breaches the company’s own policies in Myanmar following the country’s military coup

California oil regulators have missed another deadline to release new rules aimed at improving health and safety measures for people living near oil and gas drilling sites

Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher after the Federal Reserve chairman said U.S. inflation is likely to be temporary

High demand and low supply have driven up used vehicle prices so much that many are now selling for more than their original sticker price when they were new

Amid all the back-and-forth about the feasibility of holding the Tokyo Olympics during the pandemic, there are early indications of viewer interest in the summer games

Airports around the country will share $8 billion in federal relief to help them recover from the pandemic

As much as passengers are eager to return to the skies, they likely don’t miss all the frustrations that come with airplane travel

A groundbreaking ceremony has marked the start of construction of an $898.6 million station that will directly connect Los Angeles International Airport to the region’s light rail and bus transportation systems

Oshkosh Defense says it will make new delivery vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, creating 1,000 new jobs

Stocks finished higher on Wall Street Tuesday, nudging the S&P 500 closer to the record high it reached last week

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Tupperware, Splunk rise; Corcept, NexGen Health fall

A government watchdog says that deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic

Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels

Remember that longing you might have had after an episode of “Sex and The City” to shop at the characters' favorite New York spots and drink cosmopolitans at those chic bars

The worker shortage is also affecting restaurants across the U.S.

Workers at the firm known for its female leadership are unplugging this week.

NASA is teaming up with the maker of Tide to figure out how to do laundry in space

Records show the number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales

European Union regulators have launched a fresh antitrust investigation of Google, this time over whether the company is stifling competition in digital advertising technology

GameStop raised more than $1 billion in its latest stock sale, capitalizing on a newly arrived and fervent army of online investors

Philip Morris International is moving its corporate headquarters from New York to Connecticut

Sales of previously-occupied homes fell for the fourth straight month in May, as soaring prices and a limited number of available properties discouraged many would-be buyers