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Federal prosecutors are trying to prohibit FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from privately contacting current and former employees of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange to prevent potential witness tampering in a crook case accusing him of bilking in...

A mobile app for migrants to seek asylum in the United States has been overwhelmed since it was introduced this month in one of several major changes to the government’s response to unprecedented migration flows

Tunisia was once the Arab world’s hope for a new era of democracy

The Philippines says it will take steps to evaluate and prevent abuses including rape and maltreatment of Filipino workers in Kuwait after a housemaid was killed and dumped in a desert in the oil-rich emirate

Italy’s prime minister has kept talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government focusing on energy and migration, top issues for Italy and the European Union

Struggling U.K. airline Flybe has collapsed for the second time in less than three years

Recession fears and a surge of tech industry layoffs have drawn renewed attention to severance packages.

A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to raise its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to domesticate clientele: whale meat vending machines

In Oregon, mass timber is increasingly being viewed as a construction material that could help the state build more affordable homes and revive rural logging towns

IMSA is bringing North American sports car racing into the hybrid era starting with Saturday's Rolex 24 at Daytona

Amazon is axing free grocery delivery for Prime members on orders less than $150

Credit ratings agency Fitch has raised Greece’s credit rating to one notch below investment grade

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt tells reporters he is baffled over how $12.7 million of his money has gone missing from a native private investment firm that authorities are investigating as part of a massive fraud

A camera atop Hawaii’s tallest mountain has captured what looks like a spiral swirling through the night sky

North Dakota landowners testified for and against a carbon capture company’s use of eminent domain

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and top aides to President Joe Biden have met in Washington to discuss electric vehicles

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, marking the market’s third winning week in the last four

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial toll changes Friday: Visa, L3Harris rise; Intel, Eastman Chemical fall

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell $1.33 to $79.68 a barrel Friday

A Trader Joe’s store in Louisville, Kentucky, has voted to unionize

For all the sound and fury about raising the nation's debt limit, most economists say federal borrowing is not at a crisis point

Ten Filipino men who worked for a major offshore oil industry employer under federally allowed visas claim in a federal lawsuit they were treated like prisoners at a company bunkhouse and that some of them were deserted there when Hurricane Ida struck...

Ford is recalling almost 383,000 SUVs in the U.S. because the touch screens may not display a camera image when backing up

It's evidence that the Fed’s series of rate hikes are slowing the economy.

An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slowed in December, and consumer spending fell

For more than 100 years, individuals came to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to work in coal mines

American Express saw its fourth-quarter profits fall by 9%, as the credit card giant had to set aside significantly more money to cover potentially bad loans

Britain’s Treasury chief says taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes

A senior German official says she hopes her country will obtain hydrogen made with renewable energy from Australia by 2030

Low-cost fashion brand H&M says its net profit for the year ending November 2022 fell 68%, while it took a hit of 864 million Swedish kronor ($84 million) in the fourth quarter

Shares in India’s Adani Group have plunged up to 20% and the company said it was considering legal action against U.S.-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research for allegations of inventory market manipulation and accounting fraud that led investors to ...

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, marking the market's third winning week in the last four

It’s the first time the four leaders of the two congressional spending committees are women

For the second time this month, House Republicans have advanced a measure to restrict presidential use of the nation’s emergency oil stockpile — a proposal that has already drawn a White House veto threat

The fabricate of “green steel” moved a step closer Friday as Massachusetts-based Boston Metal announced a $120 million investment to help it produce steel that is far less damaging to the climate than traditional steel

South Korea says it will continue to restrict the entry of short-term travelers from China through the end of February over concerns that the spread of COVID-19 in that country may worsen following the Lunar New Year’s holidays

A federal lawsuit is seeking class-action damages for countless hotel patrons who booked rooms in Las Vegas since 2019

Toymaker Hasbro is cutting about 1,000 jobs as part of moves announced last year to save up to $300 million annually by 2025

The U.S. is poised to create COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot

Experts describe a typical severance package and how workers should negotiate.

The U.S. government is offering more money to find a solution for storing or disposing of spent nuclear fuel from the nation's commercial nuclear power plants

Payment processing giant Visa Inc. says its profits in its latest quarter were up 6% from a year earlier, helped by the continued rise of digital payments across the globe

A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who said her, “I don’t serve Black people.”

Stocks climbed Thursday to send Wall Street to its highest level in almost eight weeks following reports suggesting the economy and corporate profits may be doing better than feared

Bed Bath & Beyond says it’s in default on its loans and doesn’t have sufficient funds to repay what it owes

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial toll changes Thursday: Tesla, Chevron rise; Wolfspeed, Southwest fall

Restaurants are beginning the new year with a recurring problem: labor shortages

The contract imposed on railroad workers last fall didn't resolve their quality-of-life issues, but there are indications the major freight railroads might begin to address some of their concerns about demanding schedules and the lack of paid sick time

Hundreds of climate and environmental groups from around the world released a letter Thursday that decried the nomination of an oil executive to oversee the United Nations climate negotiations at COP28