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A former top executive at Las Vegas Strip casinos will face a judge in Los Angeles and possible federal prison time after pleading guilty to violating federal anti-money laundering rules

Disney has received a key approval to expand its Southern California theme parks in its first push to make major changes to its iconic Disneyland in decades

World shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street

Toyota has reported that its profit for the fiscal year that ended in March doubled over a year earlier, as strong vehicles sales and a favorable exchange rate lifted results for Japan’s top automaker

The future of the Tampa Bay Rays is about to come into clearer focus as the St. Petersburg City Council begins discussions about the team's planned $1.3 billion ballpark

President Joe Biden is pushing proposals to help families pay for child care, preschool and elder care while he's running for reelection this year

Alabama lawmakers have approved legislation to provide state tax breaks to businesses that help their employees afford childcare

People buying tickets online for concerts, sporting events and other live events in Minnesota will be guaranteed more transparency and protection under a so-called Taylor Swift bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz

A record 30% of global electricity was generated from renewables in 2023, according to a report released by Ember, a think tank based in London

Parent company ByteDance claims the new law, signed in April, violates users' First Amendment rights.

Panera Bread said it’s discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks that were tied to at least two wrongful death lawsuits due to their high caffeine content

An independent review of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s workplace culture describes an environment that fostered “hostile, abusive, unprofessional, or inappropriate conduct,” and questions whether the agency’s chairman is credible to lead the ag...

No, Katy Perry and Rihanna didn’t attend the Met Gala this year

U.S. stocks held relatively steady as trading on Wall Street calmed following some sharp recent swings

Thousands of Taylor Swift fans are following her across the pond after missing out on her U.S. concert tour last year or being put off by marked-up ticket prices

The 2024 Met Gala raised more than $26 million, a record sum for the party that has become an annual gathering for mega-celebrities in fashion, film, TV, sports, music, business and more

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 10 cents to $78.38 per barrel Tuesday

The tech giant continues to rely on new models of old products, analysts said.

AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Kenvue, Crocs rise; Disney, Teradata fall

TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are suing the U.S. government over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to an approved buyer

TikTok sues the US over attempts to force its Chinese parent to sell the social media platform, citing First Amendment

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of iPad Pros and Airs — lineups that will boast faster processors, new sizes and a new display system

Fifty-one percent of adults say the U.S. government should try to force a sale of the Chinese-owned app and 53% support a ban if it is not sold, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll.

A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard

More than 80% of residents in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre don't have running water one week after major flooding

Long before his son Lin-Manuel's Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” brought his family international recognition and unexpected fortune, Luis A

Instacart is partnering with Uber Eats to offer restaurant deliveries to its customers

Federal safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles with the company’s Autopilot partially automated driving system

The Walt Disney Co. moved to a loss in its second quarter, hampered by significantly higher restructuring and impairment charges, but its adjusted profit topped Wall Street’s view and its streaming business was profitable

Struggling to give teachers meaningful raises, some school districts are adding a new perk — subsidized, on-site child care for their kids

France’s president has hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees for private meetings

EU countries have approved a plan worth 6 billion euros ($6.45 billion) to support Western Balkan states aimed at accelerating reforms and economic growth in the region, as they seek future membership in the bloc

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo's announcement about a successor to its Switch home console is coming sometime before March 2025

Malaysia will not interfere in business relations between arms manufacturers and other countries, its defense minister said after protesters demanded that the government expel companies that supply weapons to Israel from an international exhibition

Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street

Kenya says the Republic of Congo's military has released two Kenya Airways staffers who were detained for two weeks in a cargo dispute

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during NATO’s air war over Kosovo

The company's shares have plummeted about 17% in value since last week.

The United Auto Workers union says over 1,000 workers at a Stellantis metal stamping plant in Warren, Michigan, have voted to authorize a strike over health and safety issues

The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes

A nonprofit Chicago journalism production company has won two Pulitzer Prizes for local and audio reporting

A Tennessee-based sanitation company is agreeing to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities

A federal appeals court has upheld a 2021 ruling that NBA star Zion Williamson’s contract with a marketing agent was void because the agent was not licensed in North Carolina when the two entered an agreement in 2019

The go-broke dates for benefit programs Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report

Home health care provider Elara Caring is being sued by the husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist

U.S. stocks closed higher on Wall Street, adding to last week’s gains

A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose 37 cents to $78.48 per barrel Monday

How do you smooth over trade tensions with the all-powerful leader of economic powerhouse China