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At Google antitrust trial, documents say one thing. The tech giant's witnesses say different

The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they’ve said on the witness stand
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Lawyers and legal assistants leave the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for a lunch break in the Department of Justice's antitrust trial against tech giant Google, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
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Titan submersible's scientific director testifies that the sub malfunctioned just prior to the fatal Titanic dive

Titan submersible's scientific director testifies that the sub malfunctioned just prior to the fatal Titanic dive
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Human remains are found inside an SUV that officials say caused pipeline fire in suburban Houston

Officials say human remains have been found inside an SUV that authorities say hit an aboveground valve on a pipeline in suburban Houston, causing a fire that has burned for four days
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Oregon governor uses new land use law to propose rural land for semiconductor facility

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is using a new land use law to propose rural land for a semiconductor facility
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FILE - Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek speaks during a signing ceremony in Washington, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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What does the rate cut mean for mortgages and homebuyers?

The Fed delivered a jumbo-sized rate cut this week.
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A "For Sale" sign in front of a home in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 5, 2024.
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Nearly 138,000 beds are being recalled after reports of them breaking or collapsing during use

Nearly 138,000 platform beds sold at major retailers including Amazon and Walmart are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada
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This photo provided by the Consumer Product Safety Commission shows a Lucid Platform Bed with an upholstered square tufted headboard that is being recalled across the U.S. and Canada, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, because they can break during use. (Consumer Product Safety Commission via AP)
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Average rate on a 30-year mortgage falls to 6.09%, lowest level since February 2023

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged closer to 6% this week and is now at its lowest level since early February 2023
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A for sale sign stands outside a home on the market in the Alamo Placita neighborhood Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in central Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Average rate on 30-year mortgage falls to 6.09%, according to Freddie Mac, hovering at lowest level since February 2023

Average rate on 30-year mortgage falls to 6.09%, according to Freddie Mac, hovering at lowest level since February 2023
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Senate panel OKs action against Steward Health Care CEO for defying subpoena

Members of a Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Texas-based Steward Health Care have adopted two resolutions designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt for not testifying before the panel
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee business meeting on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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Olive Garden teams up with Uber Direct to offer delivery

Olive Garden is teaming up with Uber to offer delivery for the first time
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FILE - An Olive Garden restaurant in Methuen, Mass is shown on June 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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The Lebanon explosions raise a question: Deep into the smartphone era, who is still using pagers?

Electronic pagers that were popular status symbols in the 1990s are used for communication precisely because they are old school
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An ambulance carrying wounded people whose handheld pager exploded, arrive at the American University hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
September 19

JetBlue to follow rivals by opening airport lounges

JetBlue Airways plans to open its first airport lounges as part of a plan to get more business from premium travelers
September 19
FILE - A JetBlue airplane is seen parked on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
September 19

US home sales fell in August despite easing mortgage rates, more homes on the market

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in August to the slowest annual pace in nearly a year even as mortgage rates eased and the supply of properties on the market kept rising
September 19
FILE - A housing development in Cranberry Township, Pa., is shown on March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
September 19

Sales of previously occupied US homes hit slowest annual pace in nearly a year last month despite falling mortgage rates

Sales of previously occupied US homes hit slowest annual pace in nearly a year last month despite falling mortgage rates
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September 19

European Union moves to compel Apple to open up operating system to rival tech

The European Union says it will outline steps to compel Apple to open up its iPhone and iPad operating systems to competing technologies under the bloc’s tough new digital rulebook, which threatens hefty fines for breaches
September 19
FILE - People wait in front of the Apple store in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 25, 2015. The European Union’s top court has rejected Apple’s final legal challenge against an order from the bloc’s executive commission to repay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland, bringing an end to the long-running dispute (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
September 19

A volunteer network of interpreters wants to make refugees' languages more accessible. Will AI help?

Refugees navigating resettlement often face a shared hurdle: poor machine translations and a short supply of interpreters knowledgeable in their less-serviced languages
September 19
Mobile phones display Tarjimly, an app that connects translators with refugees, asylum seekers, and humanitarians at the Google Impact Summit on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Sunnyvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
September 19

Weekly applications for US jobless benefits fall to the lowest level in 4 months

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in four months last week
September 19
FILE - A hiring sign is displayed at a retail store in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
September 19

Weekly applications for U.S. jobless benefits fall to the lowest level in 4 months

Weekly applications for U.S. jobless benefits fall to the lowest level in 4 months
September 19
September 19

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut
September 19
September 19

Report finds a faulty component could have caused 'extensive damage' to Cathay Pacific jet

Hong Kong's air safety authority has found that a defect in an engine component of a Cathay Pacific Airways Airbus A350 that forced a Zurich-bound flight to return to Hong Kong could have caused “extensive damage” to the aircraft
September 19
September 19

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut

The Bank of England is keeping its main interest rate unchanged at 5% despite a big cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve, its first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than four years ago
September 19
FILE - The Bank of England is pictured in London, on Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
September 19

Fruit and seafood are the latest front in escalating Taiwan-China tensions

Taiwan says China’s ban on imports of its fruit, vegetables, seafood and other goods violate trade rules, in the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the self-governing island republic and its massive neighbor, which has vowed to annex Taiwan by force
September 19
FILE - People buy fruit at a stall in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
September 19

Lawyer for American charged in Japan's trial of ex-Nissan exec Ghosn appeals for 'justice'

The six-year-old criminal case of Greg Kelly, an American ensnared in the scandal of Nissan’s former boss Carlos Ghosn has turned a page in a Japanese court, with the judge promising a verdict in February
September 19
FILE - Former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
September 19

Israel-Hamas war latest: Hezbollah leader says Israel crossed a `red line'

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is promising to retaliate for deadly attacks on its communication devices
September 19
Israelis take cover next to a shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, northern Israel, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
September 19

A news site that covers Haitian Americans is facing harassment over its post-debate coverage of Ohio

Journalists at a news site that covers issues facing the Haitian community in the United States say they've been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering the false story about immigrants eating the pets of people in Springfield, Ohio
September 19
The sun rises over the city of Springfield, Ohio, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
September 19

Sri Lanka's presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom

Sri Lankans who usually vote along religious and ethnic lines will be keeping another factor in mind when they vote Saturday on a new president
September 19
A man sits next to election posters of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa as he gets a shave from a roadside barber in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
September 19

Vietnamese real estate tycoon, already sentenced to death for fraud, faces trial on new charges

Vietnamese state media say the second trial for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan — who was sentenced to death for financial fraud in April — started on Thursday
September 19
Business woman Truong My Lan, a real estate tycoon sentenced to death for financial fraud, attends her second trial in Vietnam's largest fraud case in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (Thanh Tung/VnExpress via AP)
September 19

Titan submersible's scientific director says the sub malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive
September 19
This June 2023 image provided by Pelagic Research Services shows remains of the Titan submersible on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. (Pelagic Research Services via AP)
September 19

Refugees in New Hampshire turn to farming for an income and a taste of home

It’s harvest time in central New Hampshire
September 19
Farmer Sylvain Bukasa, a refugee from Democratic Republic of the Congo, takes freshly harvested peppers out of a cleaning tub to be air dried prior to packaging at Fresh Start Farm, Aug. 19, 2024, in Dunbarton, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
September 18

Stock market today: Wall Street rises toward records as jubilation sweeps markets worldwide

Wall Street is rising toward records as a delayed jubilation sweeps markets worldwide following the Federal Reserve’s big cut to interest rates
September 18
Specialist Genaro Saporito, foreground, works with traders at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
September 18

Hackers demand $6 million for files stolen from Seattle airport operator in cyberattack

Hackers are demanding $6 million in bitcoin from the operator of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for documents they stole during a cyberattack last month
September 18
September 18

Instagram imposes new restrictions for teens. Will they work?

The new accounts bolster protections and add limits, the company said.
September 18
In this photo illustration a a 12-year-old school boy looks at a iPhone screen showing Instagram and Facebook.
September 18

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff seeks more control over postmaster general after mail meltdown

As the U.S. Postal Service faces delivery slowdowns, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, has proposed legislation to impose stricter oversight on who leads the agency
September 18
FILE - Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during the hearing on Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Federal Prisons, Dec. 13, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
September 18

Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access

Some Brazilian users have regained access to X despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court
September 18
FILE - A view of a laptop shows the Twitter sign-in page with their logo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
September 18

How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 9/18/2024

Wall Street wavered near its records after the Federal Reserve kicked off its efforts to prevent a recession with a bigger-than-usual cut to interest rates
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Oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico's electric grid

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island’s crumbling power grid as widespread outages persist
September 18
FILE - People march along Las Americas Highway to protest the LUMA Energy company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)
September 18

Lawsuits buffet US offshore wind projects, seeking to end or delay them

Opponents of offshore wind around the U.S. are pelting the projects with lawsuits, seeking to cancel them or tie them up for years in costly litigation
September 18
An anti-offshore wind sign is draped across a fence in the driveway of a homeowner in Brigantine, N.J., on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
September 18

Rally over? Homebuilder stocks' big gains may have already priced in Fed rate cut

Homebuilder stocks are having a banner year, outpacing the broader market on a wave of optimism that mortgage rates will fall and juice home sales
September 18
New homes are shown under construction in Wheeling, Ill., Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
September 18

Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris for president

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has declined to endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump for president, saying neither candidate has sufficient support from the 1.3 million-member union
September 18
FILE - Sean O'Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
September 18

Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris, after endorsing Biden in 2020 and being courted by Trump this year

Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris, after endorsing Biden in 2020 and being courted by Trump this year
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September 18

Memories of the earliest Tupperware parties, from one who was there

Tupperware became woven into America's cultural fabric after World War II by forgoing retail stores in favor of a direct-to-consumer sales model
September 18
FILE - Ann T. Anthony is shown in a photo taken in 1953 in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Edward Mason Anthony Jr., Courtesy the Anthony Family via AP, File)
September 18

Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for 1st time since 2020

The rate cut could deliver relief to borrowers saddled with high costs.
September 18
September 18

Treasury rule would expand tax credits for installing electric vehicle chargers

The Biden administration is moving to clarify how homeowners and businesses can receive lucrative tax credits for installing electric vehicle chargers
September 18
FILE - A Chevrolet Volt charges at at a station outside the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2020, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
September 18

Text of the policy statement the Federal Reserve released Wednesday

Below is the statement the Federal Reserve released Wednesday after its latest policy meeting ended: Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has moved up but remains low. Inflation has made further progress toward the Committee’s 2 percent objective but remains somewhat elevated. The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. The Committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance. The economic outlook is uncertain, and the Committee is attentive to the risks to both sides of its dual mandate. In light of the progress on inflation and the balance of risks, the Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/2 percentage point to 4-3/4 to 5 percent. In...
September 18
September 18

What to know about the pipeline fire burning for a third day in Houston's suburbs

A pipeline fire that forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in the Houston suburbs is burning for a third day, with officials saying they don’t expect it to be extinguished until sometime Thursday evening
September 18
A pipeline carrying natural gas liquids burns near La Porte, Texas, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)
September 18

The Federal Reserve is finally lowering rates. Here's what consumers should know

The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year high, with consequences for debt, savings, auto loans, mortgages and other forms of borrowing by consumers and businesses
September 18
FILE - A "For Sale" sign is displayed in front of a home in Skokie, Ill., April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
September 18

Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate by a sizable half-point, signaling an end to its inflation fight

Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate by a sizable half-point, signaling an end to its inflation fight
September 18
September 18

Boeing CEO says the company will furlough employees soon to preserve cash during labor strike

Boeing’s CEO says the company will begin furloughing a large number of employees to save cash during a strike by union machinists
September 18
Boeing workers wave picket signs as they strike after union members voted to reject a contract offer, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, near the company's factory in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
September 18

Boeing’s CEO says a large number of employees will be furloughed to conserve cash during factory workers' strike

Boeing’s CEO says a large number of employees will be furloughed to conserve cash during factory workers' strike
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September 18

MrBeast and Amazon sued by competitors from his $5M reality show over alleged 'unsafe' conditions

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize
September 18
FILE - Jimmy Donaldson, the popular YouTube video maker who goes by MrBeast, wears a Lionel Messi jersey as he stands in a sideline box at the start of an MLS soccer match between Inter Miami and CF Montreal Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)