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Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported a smaller-than-expected profit and a substantial double-digit fall in sales in the first quarter due to a market weakened by a lack of investment by clients in 5G technology

Asian shares have advanced even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower again

Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine

Europe’s farmers are angry, and staging their biggest protests in half a century

The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho

A California lawmaker wants to require limited liability companies and similar businesses to report the identities of their owners to the government

Casinos in the northeastern U.S. are dealing with numerous challenges as they brace for the arrival of new competitors in New York City

Data breaches are becoming an almost regular occurrence

CSX railroad's first-quarter profit slipped 10% even though the railroad delivered 3% more goods as shipments it handled shifted to a less-profitable mix

A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue

A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall

Sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower again, and the S&P 500 fell to its fourth straight loss

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery fell $2.67 to $82.69 per barrel Wednesday

The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democrati...

4,000 workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee are casting union ballots.

Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal investigation into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory

Biden promises to keep US Steel as a 'totally American company' while his administration reviews Japanese takeover plan

Union Pacific dramatically reduced its use of temporary limits on some businesses’ shipments over the past year after its customers complained

The owner of the container ship Dali has initiated a process requiring owners of the cargo on board to share salvage costs after the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Wednesday: United Airlines, Eli Lilly rise; JB Hunt, Travelers fall

Alaska Airlines briefly grounded all flights Wednesday due to a technical issue

A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become intolerant of all but liberal views has resigned

Workers who help bring Disneyland’s beloved characters to life have filed a petition to form a labor union

Amazon wants other businesses to know it’s not giving up on its Just Walk Out technology

Canadian police say nine people are facing charges in the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago

The Supreme Court has made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay

A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heat-trapping gases taking the biggest monetary hit

Ford is recalling more than 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles due to a battery detection issue that can result in loss of drive power

Abbott Laboratories on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $1.23 billion

Jerry Seinfeld’s upcoming Netflix comedy will be featured during this weekend's IndyCar race at Long Beach as rookie Linus Lundqvist will drive a car painted to look like a Pop-Tart in recognition of the movie “Unfrosted.”

Hugh Grant says he accepted “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him

European Union regulators are seeking details from TikTok on a new app from the video sharing platform that pays users to watch videos

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Georgia’s parliament has voted in the first reading to approve a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad

Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a $56 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a Delaware judge this year, and to shift the company’s corporate home to Texas

Disney has received a key approval to expand its theme park offerings in California as it seeks to build new, immersive lands for visitors

Thailand and New Zealand have vowed to boost economic cooperation with an aim to triple two-way trade by 2045, as the New Zealand leader visited Thailand for the first time in 11 years

President Joe Biden has told an audience of cheering unionized steelworkers that his administration will block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company

Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union have halted ferries, disrupted public transport services and left some state-run hospitals running on emergency staffing levels in Athens and elsewhere

The U.S. 7th Fleet says a Navy P-8A Poseidon has flown through the Taiwan Strait

Inflation in the U.K. fell to its lowest level in two and a half years in March after a further easing in food prices

Authorities in Ivory Coast's largest city are demolishing homes in low-income areas over what they say are public health concerns, leaving thousands without shelter and with nowhere to go

Asian shares have advanced even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower again

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company is “looking at” manufacturing in Indonesia as he met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday

Japan recorded a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year as the costs of energy and other imports rose and the yen remained weak

A federal judge has rejected a request by Native American tribes and environmentalists to stop work on a $10 billion electricity transmission line slated to run through a remote valley in southern Arizona

An engineer at Boeing alleges the aircraft company is taking manufacturing shortcuts that could lead to jetliners breaking apart

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is imposing higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians as part of the federal government

New Jersey’s high-flying internet gambling market continues to smash records

Authorities in Canada say they have made arrests in the theft of a cargo container that included gold and other items worth over 20 million Canadian dollars — about $14.5 million — that were stolen from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago