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Southwest Airlines flight attendants have ratified a new contract that will boost their pay by about one-third over four years

The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed a broad package of tax cuts for the second time in three months

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta says its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the average price of ads on its platforms

U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish

A Tesla that may have been operating on the company’s Autopilot driving system has hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle

The big U.S. aid package for Ukraine and other allies that President Joe Biden signed Wednesday also allows the administration to seize Russian state assets located in the U.S. and use them for the benefit of Kyiv

A company started by a Texas billionaire oilman has announced a deal with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company to rehabilitate five aging oil fields

President Joe Biden’s signing of legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. runs counter to his campaign’s embrace of the platform and outreach to influencers

For millions of American workers, the federal government took two actions this week that could bestow potentially far-reaching benefits

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 55 cents to $82.81 per barrel Wednesday

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison says the business software giant’s planned campus in Nashville, Tennessee, will serve as its world headquarters and place it in a city that's a center of the health care industry

The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden

For the first time in more than a year, the monthly board meeting of Walt Disney World’s governing district was back to being what many municipal government forums often are — boring

U.S. agriculture officials say dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus in an effort to track and control the growing outbreak

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Texas Instruments, Mattel rise; General Dynamics, Teledyne fall

TikTok is halting a feature on its new app rewarding users in Europe for watching videos, after facing pressure from regulators worried about its addictive features

About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who aren't yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income

The way a meal looks has been important to the dining experience since forever

Expectations are tempered for the financial prospects of summer of 2024 at the movies

The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete clauses, which could affect one in five U.S. workers.

British competition regulators say they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry

Norfolk Southern's first-quarter earnings report Wednesday gave the railroad the opportunity to publicly defend CEO Alan Shaw's strategy again before investors decide on May 9 whether to back him

A team of experts from the U.N. nuclear agency has inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for a review of its discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific

A ship near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait has seen an explosion in the distance, marking what may be a new attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels through the crucial waterway for international trade

The European Union says it will investigate whether China is using unfair methods to deprive companies in Europe of access to its market for medical devices

Boeing is reporting a $355 million loss for the first quarter

Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation

Germany’s Cabinet has approved a 4.57% rise in retirees’ pensionsfrom this summer, an increase that is well above the current inflation rate

If you’ve ever spotted cars with chameleon, chrome-like finishes, patterns such as stripes and camouflage, or just an off-beat pink or lime green, you’ve likely seen a vinyl wrap

Airline officials say oil sprayed from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed in northern Japan, but none of the 213 people on board was injured

The Biden administration has announced plans for a new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind energy production

The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature

Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has shaken up the market over the last three years

U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says Israel must be brought to justice for “usurpation and oppression” of the Palestinian territories, if not there won’t be a guarantee that others would not do the same in other lands

New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue New York in court for taxing their wages

Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature

The USPS announced on Tuesday it will continue with its plan to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, a move that drew bipartisan ire from Nevada lawmakers while raising questions about the rate at which mail ballots can be processed in a po...

The Senate has passed legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of c...

U.S. health officials say samples of pasteurized milk have tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows

A minor league baseball team in Montana is calling out the U.S. Department of Interior for “unwarranted and relentless” trademark claims in a battle over the use of an arrowhead logo

The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in the U.S. The move marks the largest expansion in federal overtime eligibility in decades

The Biden administration is setting new rules on airline fees and refunds

Stocks rallied for a second straight day on Wall Street, softening what’s been a rough April

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $1.46 to $83.33 per barrel Tuesday

The head of Mexico's detective service has acknowledged the country is “the champion” of fentanyl production, which appears to run counter to past statements by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court

Jeep maker Stellantis is planning to lay off an unspecified number of workers at its U.S. factories in the coming months to deal with a rapidly changing global auto market, the company said Tuesday

Caitlin Clark appears to be on the cusp of setting another record