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Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has died at age 69

Around 1.4 million homes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are without power almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America’s largest city

The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion

Back in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status

China's finance minister says the government is looking at additional ways to boost the economy, but he didn't unveil a major new stimulus plan at a news conference Saturday

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks 100 days in office on Saturday with little cause for celebration

Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines

A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit filed by one Native American tribe over another’s construction of a casino on what they said is sacred land

TikTok has been aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective

CEO Kelly Ortberg announced the plans in a letter to employees on Friday.

Boeing is announcing layoffs

Boeing says it will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production

Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state's largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

The California state Senate has passed a bill aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking at the pump

U.S. stocks closed at more all-time highs as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other big financial companies rallied following better-than-expected profit reports

The president of Guyana has announced several perks ahead of next year’s general elections, including free college tuition and a one-time cash payment of nearly $1,000 for every household in the oil-rich South American country

United Airlines reports quarterly results Tuesday

Fisher-Price is recalling parts of over 2 million infant swings across the U.S., Canada and Mexico

Snubbed by Tesla, Mexico's new president has pledged to create a Mexican-made small, affordable electric car

Two Georgia election workers have reached a settlement in their defamation lawsuit against a Missouri-based website that falsely accused them of fraud in the 2020 presidential election

Price increases are hovering right near the Fed's target rate of 2%.

Italian lawmakers on Friday questioned the head of troubled French-Italian automaker Stellantis over the group’s strategy, one day after it announced a management shakeup in an effort to revive sales

Brazil on Friday started blocking over 2,000 gambling websites designated as irregular, part of a push by the government to regulate the sector, after concern rose about gambling addicts, especially vulnerable people

United Airlines is adding eight new international destinations to its itinerary for next summer

Americans’ outlook on the economy soured a bit after two months of small gains, according to the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday

US consumer sentiment slips in October on frustration over high prices

Wholesale prices in the United States were unchanged last month in another sign that inflation is returning to something close to normal after years of pressuring America’s households in the wake of COVID-19

Wholesale inflation mostly cooled last month in latest sign that price pressures are slowing

Stellantis, which makes Jeep and Chrysler vehicles, announced a number of significant leadership changes, including the timing of CEO Carlos Tavares’ retirement and the departure of its chief financial officer as it struggles to revive sales in North A...

JPMorgan says its net income fell to $12.9 billion in the third quarter.

JPMorgan's net income fell 2% in the third quarter as the bank set aside more money to cover potential bad loans

A self-driving taxi that can collect passengers and drive them to their destinations safely is an idea Musk has been toying with for several years.

U.S. stocks rose to records as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other big financial companies rallied on better-than-expected profit reports

Police say gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest

South Korea’s central bank cut its policy rate for the first time in more than four years as pressure to revive a sluggish economy outweighed concerns about the country’s level of household debt

Some 400 pro-establishment electors are set to approve the sole candidate for Macao’s chief executive job on Sunday, making him the Chinese casino hub’s first leader born in mainland China

Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate

Toyota is returning to Formula 1 after 15 years as the Japanese automaker becomes a “technical partner” of American team Haas

Relatives of passengers who died in Boeing Max crashes have attended a Texas courtroom where their lawyers asked a judge to throw out a plea agreement they say is a sweetheart deal for Boeing

Mexico has sent 660 soldiers and militarized National Guard officers to the western state of Michoacan to protect lime growers who complained they were suffering extortion demands by cartels

U.S. stocks edged back from their record highs

One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors from mines in a western North Carolina community harmed by Hurricane Helene is operating again

Nearly 25% of the gas stations in Florida have run dry, according to GasBuddy.

Phones hold so much of our digital lives that if they ever get stolen or go missing, it can cause major disruption beyond just the loss of a device

Florida theme parks including Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld say they’ll open their gates on Friday after shutting down for Hurricane Milton

TD Bank will pay approximately $3 billion in a historic settlement with U.S. authorities who say the financial institution’s lax practices allowed significant money laundering over multiple years

TD Bank will pay $3 billion in historic money-laundering settlement, the Justice Department says

Tens of millions of older Americans will see a 2.5% increase in benefits this January when a new cost-of-living adjustment is added to Social Security payments

A company is recalling nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry made at an Oklahoma plant because the products may be contaminated with listeria bacteria