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The White House and Democrats are hurriedly reworking key aspects of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion domestic policy plan

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to ban new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of neighborhood sites is drawing cautious optimism from environmental groups but strong pushback from the oil industry and its labor allies

Asian shares are mixed after a late-in-the-day wave of buying pushed the S&P 500 to a fresh record high

U.S. financial regulators are acknowledging climate change to be a serious threat to the stability of the nation’s financial system

Qantas Airways has brought forward its plans to restart international travel from Sydney as Prime Minister Scott Morrison predicted tourists would be welcomed back to Australia this year

Carlos Ghosn, the former auto industry superstar whose career screeched to a halt with his arrest three years ago, isn't about to settle into quiet retirement

NASA launched an online platform Thursday with data on how much water evaporates into the atmosphere from plants, soils and other surfaces in the U.S. West

Snapchat’s corporate parent has disclosed that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin

Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City are preparing to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board

The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people

Some investors aren’t waiting to see if former President Donald Trump’s plans for a media company to challenge the likes of Facebook, Twitter and even Disney can actually become reality _ they’re all in

The Federal Reserve is imposing a sweeping new set of restrictions on the investments its officials can own, a response to questionable recent trades that forced two top Fed officials to resign

A wave of buying in the last hour of trading left stocks mostly higher on Wall Street, enough for the S&P 500 to beat the record high close it set in early September

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: IBM, Las Vegas Sands fall; Crocs, AutoNation rise

American and Southwest Airlines are reporting that they made profits in the third quarter, thanks to large amounts of government pandemic relief

Facebook’s semi-independent oversight board says the company has fallen short of full disclosure on its internal system that exempts high-profile users from some or all of its content rules

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

Union Pacific hauled in 23% more profit in the third quarter even though the total number of shipments it delivered remained flat overall

The 2-month-old California wildfire that threatened the Lake Tahoe resort region over the summer has been declared 100% contained

An international organization that monitors and sets guidelines to protect against money laundering and terrorism financing has added Turkey, Jordan and Mali to its watch list

German transportation company FlixMobility is buying Greyhound’s bus operations in the U.S. in order to strengthen its position in the country

The United States has ordered a halt to imports of tomatoes from a Mexican farming company and its subsidiaries for what officials say is abusive treatment of workers that amounts to forced labor

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes bounced back in September to their strongest pace since January as worries about higher mortgage rates motivated buyers to get off the sidelines

Mortgage rates are hovering near all-time lows, but that could begin to change

A driver was behind the wheel when a Tesla electric car crashed and burned last April near Houston, killing two men, neither of whom was found in the driver’s seat

WeWork will become a publicly traded company Thursday after a spectacular collapse during its first attempt to do so two years ago

U.S. health officials say a salmonella outbreak tied to onions has sickened more than 650 people in 37 states

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a new low point since the pandemic erupted, evidence that layoffs are declining as companies hold onto workers

American Airlines earned $169 million in the third quarter, but the delta variant of COVID-19 slowed down its recovery from the pandemic

China has removed Caixin Media, one of the country’s most independent business news sites, from a list of news outlets whose content can be republished by other internet news providers

Former President Donald Trump says he’s launching a new media company with its own social media platform nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection

Asian shares are mixed after major Chinese property developer Evergrande said a plan to sell its property management arm to a smaller rival had fallen through

Bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have spilled over into a neighborhood where cargo trucks are clogging residential streets

Record electric vehicle sales last summer amid a shortage of computer chips and other materials propelled Tesla Inc. to the biggest quarterly net earnings in its history

The World Health Organization says there has been a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week

California’s popular In-N-Out hamburger chain is in trouble with yet another San Francisco Bay Area county over vaccine verifications

CSX delivered a 32% jump in third-quarter profit as the volume of goods it hauled rose even beyond last fall’s strong level

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order limiting how striking workers at the Deere & Co. plant in Davenport should conduct themselves

The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the Senate

Federal investigators are interviewing people who were on a jet that ran off a Texas runway during takeoff and burst into flames

Stocks ended higher on Wall Street Wednesday, bringing the S&P 500 to the brink of another record high

Bitcoin stormed above $66,000 for the first time on Wednesday, riding a wave of excitement about how the financial establishment is increasingly accepting the digital currency’s rise

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Brinker, Baker Hughes fall; Anthem, Abbott Laboratories rise

The U.S. government has ordered a halt to imports of disposable gloves from a Malaysian company and its subsidiaries after determining they rely on forced labor

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

The Federal Reserve reports that the economy was facing a number of headwinds at the start of this month from supply chain disruptions and labor shortages to uncertainty about the delta variant of COVID

A new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen brought in only $300,000 in sales during its first full quarter on the market

With coronavirus cases rising in Britain, the government is urging millions of people to get booster vaccine shots

Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work

Companies are confronting demands by hourly workers on terms that often used to be non-negotiable: scheduling