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Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program

Netflix gained another 9.3 million subscribers to start the year while its profit soared with the help of a still-emerging expansion into advertising, but caught investors off guard with a change that will make it more difficult to track the video stre...

San Francisco has sued Oakland after officials there voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job

U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed close following more reports showing the economy remains stronger than expected

It's a full agenda for Ajay Banga as he nears the end of his first year as World Bank president

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery rose 4 cents to $82.73 per barrel Thursday

The Arizona Coyotes are officially headed to Salt Lake City

New York would expand access to booze under a series of measures unveiled on Thursday as part of a larger state budget agreement

Persistently high interest rates have led Missouri lawmakers to significantly expand a state loan program for farmers and small businesses

The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants

The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration

Legislation that could ban TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake has won a major boost as House Republicans included it in a package of bills that would send U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel

Atlantic City casinos are bracing for new threats from as many as three new casinos in or near New York City

Shares of Ibotta, a Walmart-backed digital company that offers customers cash-back rewards and rebates on grocery brands ranging from Nestle to Coca-Cola, rose 17% in their Wall Street debut

Tesla’s stock tumbled below $150 per share, giving up all of the gains made over the past year as the electric vehicle maker reels from falling sales and steep discounts intended to lure more buyers

Workers at Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote next month on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union

Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Ally Financial, CSX rise; Equifax, Synovus Financial fall

Prospective homebuyers are facing higher costs to finance a home with the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate moving above 7% this week to its highest level in nearly five months

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small says he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter

The European Commission is proposing to open negotiations with the United Kingdom to allow young people to move freely, work and study in both regions after Brexit — the U.K.’s departure from the EU four years ago

Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks stores have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served in

The spring homebuying season is off to a sluggish start as home shoppers contend with elevated mortgage rates and rising prices

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the world economy has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of higher interest rates and the shock of war in Ukraine and Gaza, but “there is plenty to worry about,″ including stubborn i...

Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal

Croatia’s ruling conservatives says that talks are already underway on the formation of a new governing majority following a highly contested parliamentary election that saw a far-right party emerge as a potential kingmaker

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits didn’t change last week as the labor market continues to defy efforts by the Federal Reserve to cool it off

European Union leaders debated at a summit in Brussels a new “European Competitiveness Deal” aimed at helping the 27-nation bloc close the gap with Chinese and American rivals

Top NATO and European Union officials are urging industrialized nations to take quick and concrete steps to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine

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

U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed close following more reports showing the economy remains stronger than expected

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

Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a long-awaited package of bills that will provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and give humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza

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

Last year, a handful of Big Tech stocks were behind much of corporate America’s profit growth