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It's their first contact since the crisis over a submarine deal with Australia.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is travelling to the United States with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to take urgent action on climate change ahead of this fall's COP26 climate summit in Scotland

Dental work for Medicare recipients

Officials in both the U.S. and the European Union are struggling with the same question

Aluminum wraps designed to protect homes from flames are getting attention as wildfires burn in California

Congressional Democrats face a daunting assignment.

"A minivan isn't more uncool than your average crossover."

U.S. envoy John Kerry is on a diplomatic quest to stave off the worst scenarios of global warming, but he's running into resistance from China, the world’s biggest climate polluter

A judge formally approved a plan Friday to turn OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma into a new company no longer owned by members of the Sackler family and with its profits going to fight the opioid epidemic

Federal officials say they will investigate a fiery Tesla crash that left two people dead in South Florida

The World Bank has dropped a popular report that ranked countries by how welcoming they are to businesses after allegations that it bowed to pressure from China and other governments

An influential federal advisory panel has overwhelmingly rejected a plan to give Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans, but it endorsed the extra doses for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease

President Joe Biden is trying to hammer out the world’s next steps against rapidly worsening climate change in a private, virtual session with a small group of other global leaders

A former executive at pharmaceutical company Mylan has pleaded guilty to insider trading in the company’s securities

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, marking a feeble ending to an up-and-down week of trading

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, marking a feeble ending to an up-and-down week of trading

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Protagonist, Schlumberger fall; Invesco, Thermo Fisher rise

A Pakistan resident has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a conspiracy to “unlock” phones from AT&T's network, a scheme that the company says cost it more than $200 million

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

California's unemployment rate declined slightly in August as the state added 104,300 new jobs for the month

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has funded organizations that received the most money for racial equity in 27 different states following the police killing of George Floyd

The number of illegal grows appears to have increased recently.

House Democrats said Friday they planned to take action next week to suspend the cap on the government’s borrowing authority

The artists say the bronze piece is the first to pay homage to Bitcoin’s anonymous creator.

New York City requires at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to dine indoors.

The reflective art piece allows viewers to see themselves in Satoshi Nakamoto.

President Joe Biden is going too far in taking credit for job growth since taking office

During his time as Union Pacific’s CEO, Lance Fritz has had to find ways to keep the freight moving during the coronavirus pandemic as the economy nearly ground to a halt and then roared back to life

The World Bank is canceling a prominent report on business conditions around the world after investigators found staff members were pressured by the bank’s leaders to alter data about China and some other governments

Asian shares are mixed after a hodge-podge of economic data led Wall Street to close mostly lower

British presenter Piers Morgan will join News Corp and Fox News Media and host a TV show that will air in the U.S., Britain and Australia

Boasting that government policies can make a difference in improving the economy, President Joe Biden is going too far in taking credit for job growth since taking office

A Muslim civil rights group is calling for a boycott of Hilton hotels over what it says are plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed Uyghur mosque in China

A budget airline will get a chance to add flights at the busy airport in Newark, New Jersey, just outside New York City

Stocks couldn’t hold on to a brief afternoon gain and wound up ending mostly lower Thursday

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Timken, Newmont fall, Gap, Lennar rise

Massachusetts is fining MassMutual $4 million after accusing the company of failing to supervise an employee whose online cheerleading of GameStop’s stock helped launch the frenzy that shook Wall Street earlier this year

The Federal Reserve is reviewing the ethics policies that cover the financial holdings of its senior officials in the wake of disclosures that two regional Fed presidents engaged in extensive trading last year

The director of Covered California says he will step down early next year

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

Oregon farmers who grow 60% of the world’s carrot seed have been without irrigation water for weeks as drought ravages the American West

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not budging on his demand that Democrats go it alone on the federal debt limit

Colorado's Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man to be elected governor in the United States in 2018, has married his longtime partner and first gentleman Marlon Reis, a writer and animal welfare advocate

Americans kept shopping last month, despite a rise in COVID-19 cases

Colleen Hoover’s years as a published — and self-published — fiction writer have been one long, pleasant surprise

The gulf between record job openings and a lack of people taking those jobs is forcing Wall Street to reassess the pace of the economic recovery

Gas-powered home lawn-care machines for mowing, trimming and blowing have generally been accompanied by deafening roars and fumes

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits moved up last week to 332,000 from a pandemic low, a sign that worsening COVID-19 infections may have slightly increased layoffs

Opening a small business is a bureaucratic headache in many parts of the world.

A poll shows that most Americans don’t believe their personal information is secure online and they aren't satisfied with the federal government's efforts to protect their digital privacy