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President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he’s targeted for national security and data privacy concerns

He had threatened to shut down the China-owned company.

Breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionized outdoor wear.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square while protesters in Tel Aviv waved signs on beaches as Israel entered a new lockdown Saturday

A late spring frost, a devastating drought and labor troubles wrought by the coronavirus pandemic conspired to make 2020 a difficult year for the wild blueberry producers who harvest the fruit in the nation’s northeastern corner

China’s Ministry of Commerce has issued regulations for its unreliable entity list, aimed at foreign companies it says endanger its national sovereignty, security or development interests

China’s Ministry of Commerce has issued regulations for its unreliable entity list, aimed at foreign companies it says endanger its national sovereignty, security or development interests

The U.S. Commerce Department said it is prohibiting Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat from app stores as of Sunday, citing national security and data privacy concerns

The federal government says it will give farmers an additional $14 billion to compensate them for the difficulties they’ve experienced selling their crops, milk and meat because of the coronavirus pandemic

A government watchdog says the Federal Aviation Administration hasn’t updated standards for emergency airliner evacuations in nearly two decades

Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, as another zig-zag week for markets ends with a third-straight weekly loss for the S&P 500

Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, as another zig-zag week for markets ends with a third-straight weekly loss for the S&P 500

Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Friday: US Steel, Aptiv rise; NatWest Group, Roku fall

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

Many residents in Madrid will need a reason to leave their neighborhoods and will face limitations on group gatherings even stricter than the ones in place

Fresh restrictions on social gatherings in England, potentially involving limits on pub opening hours, appear to be on the cards soon as the British government seeks to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into law a measure giving state regulators power to deny development permits to businesses whose operations pollute predominantly Black and other minority communities

A drug company says that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the first large study that primarily enrolled Hispanics and Blacks

World Trade Organization member states have trimmed a list of candidates vying to become its next director-general from eight to five by ejecting applicants from Egypt, Mexico and Moldova

The Australian government has announced a $3.7 million grant to the national news agency as part of pandemic-related assistance to regional journalism

A rebound in garment orders after demand crashed during spring coronavirus shutdowns is helping to revive the Bangladesh economy

Asian shares are slightly higher despite some investor attention shifting again to the uncertainties in global economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, as reflected in the overnight fall on Wall Street

The Trump administration is claiming “resounding vindication” from an independent commission’s report on the coronavirus crisis in nursing homes

Stocks closed lower Thursday after another slide in technology companies led a broad sell-off on Wall Street

A U.S. judge in Philadelphia has dismissed a lawsuit filed over the 2017 fire at London’s Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people

Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Thursday: Dave & Buster’s, Carnival fall; Sorrento, Herman Miller rise

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

The Miami Herald is investigating how it published a paid insert with what it called “racist and anti-Semitic commentary.”

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 860,000, a historically high figure that reflects economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak

The Bank of England indicated Thursday that it could cut interest rates below zero for the first time in its 326-year history as it tries to shore up a U.K. economic recovery that is facing the dual headwinds of the coronavirus and Brexit

U.S. housing construction fell 5.1% in August after three months of strong gains as home builders mounted a rebound following a pandemic-induced shutdown in March and April

Shell Offshore Inc. has submitted plans to drill for oil in the waters along the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in the coming years

The latest tally is the lowest since the pandemic began.

Most everyone along Wall Street agrees that stocks are expensive following their amazing return to records despite the still-raging pandemic

Ford says it will add 300 jobs at a new factory that’s being built to assemble batteries and manufacture an electric version of the F-150 pickup truck

Workers are protesting at a Bridgestone tire factory in northern France over the company’s decision to close the plant and lay off its nearly 900 workers

Two of Spain’s biggest banks are poised to merge and create the country’s largest bank in terms of domestic operations, with assets of more than 600 billion euros ($708 billion)

Netflix is producing and shooting an original series set in Japan.

The author of proposed Australian laws that would make Facebook and Google pay for journalism says his draft legislation will be altered to allay some of the digital giants’ concerns, but would remain fundamentally unchanged

A major U.S. coal mining company has emerged from federal bankruptcy protection under a new name and ownership group

Among the businesses the coronavirus outbreak has pummeled are an untold number of companies that were on the verge of launching or that were in their early days when the virus hit

Asian stock markets have retreated after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it will keep interest rates near zero but announced no fresh stimulus plans

With the economy still struggling to recover from the pandemic recession, Federal Reserve policymakers signaled Wednesday that their benchmark short-term interest rate will likely remain at zero at least through 2023 and probably even longer

President Donald Trump said he expects to get a report Thursday about Oracle’s bid for the Chinese-owned video app TikTok

A looming WeChat ban from the U.S. government won’t target people who use the Chinese messaging app to communicate, according to a filing in a court case Wednesday

Raytheon Technologies plans to eliminate more than 15,000 jobs this year at its corporate offices, jet engine-maker Pratt & Whitney and aviation and military equipment manufacturer Collins Aerospace

Sony said Wednesday its upcoming PlayStation 5 video game console will cost $500 and launch Nov. 12, setting up a holiday battle with Microsoft’s X Box Series X over whose new console will be under people’s tree this year

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Wednesday after a brief rally faded in the last hour of trading and losses by technology companies outweighed gains in banks and elsewhere in the market

Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Wednesday: FedEx, AMC Networks rise; Spotify, NextEra fall

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