China’s annual major political event gets underway this week to endorse decisions already made by the all-powerful Chinese Communist Party.

An Iranian official who was key to the country's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has reportedly tendered his resignation from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Chinese manufacturers reported stronger orders in February as importers rushed to beat higher U.S. tariffs.

Shares are mostly higher in Europe and Asia, helped by strong Chinese factory data, following Friday's rally on Wall Street.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.

A private lunar lander has touched down on the moon, delivering a drill and other experiments for NASA.

The 25% tariff on most imported Canadian goods that President Donald Trump’s plans to impose Tuesday has touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border.

Miami Beach broke up with spring break last year and city leaders still aren’t interested in couples counseling.

Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has signaled that a new and much-anticipated deal with the International Monetary Fund is imminent.

Demonstrators have gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. to protest the automaker’s billionaire leader, Elon Musk.

President Donald Trump has signed a pair of actions to increase domestic lumber production.

Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers have reported issues with services like Outlook.

Guyana’s president has denounced an incursion by an armed Venezuelan naval vessel in disputed waters and home to a mammoth offshore oil deposit being developed by ExxonMobil.

Earth's warming climate is causing problems for big coffee producers everywhere and some are looking to a rarely cultivated species that may stand up better to drought and heat.

Chip Ganassi Racing on Friday said it has partnered on a strategic research collaboration with OpenAI — a deal that makes the two-time reigning IndyCar championship winning team the first to bring in a partner from the artificial intelligence field.

President Donald Trump’s trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry.

Two-time reigning Indianapolis 500 winner champion Josef Newgarden has signed with Klutch Sports Group.

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.

President Donald Trump’s administration is backing off its demand for an extra layer of federal scrutiny whenever states seek even minor changes to their transportation plans.

It's the end of an era for Microsoft Skype. The video conferencing app will be shut down in May, according to Microsoft.

Czech firefighters are battling a major chemical blaze in eastern Czech Republic after a freight train derailed and carcinogenic benzol from damaged tank wagons caught fire.

The South Florida community is mourning the loss of a legend, who fed generations of Miami Hurricanes over the last 40 years.

The U.S. lobster industry continued a multiyear slide in catch last year.

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday.

Gencom, a Miami-based investment firm, plans to close the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne for a $100 million renovation.

Students in Bangladesh who led a mass uprising to topple former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August are now diving into politics by forming a new political party.

Ongoing tariff threats from Washington and potentially sweeping government job cuts have darkened consumers’ mood and may be weighing on an otherwise mostly healthy economy.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has suggested restoring direct air links between Russia and the United States during the latest round of consultations with Washington.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU and India have agreed to push to get a long pending free trade agreement done this year.

Egg producers blame the ongoing bird flu outbreak for driving prices up to record highs.

President Donald Trump has made the raw materials of modern life a pillar of U.S. foreign policy.

Wall Street closed its dreary February on a brighter note, as U.S. stock indexes rallied.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has won reelection to lead Canada’s most populous province, giving him the mandate he wanted to fight tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump.

Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar are set to return home Friday as the repatriation effort for such workers strains regional resources.

Nonpartisan federal workers in South Florida are speaking out against potential mass layoffs, warning that deep cuts to government jobs would disrupt essential services and hurt local communities.

President Donald Trump is planning a “gold card” visa with a potential pathway to U.S. citizenship for $5 million.

An “economic blackout” promoted on social media is underway but with no clear indication of how many people took part or whether retail companies and restaurants will notice any effect from the grassroots protest.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has dropped several enforcement actions against companies like Capital One and Rocket Homes, just weeks under new leadership and turmoil at the agency caused by orders from Trump administration.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she has serious concerns about the British government’s reported demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any data stored in the cloud.

Pending home sales in the United States slid to an all-time low in January as high mortgage rates, record-high home prices, and possibly the terrible weather last month hindered those seeking to buy.

A Senate committee has advanced the nomination of President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Labor.

Two major cruise companies are implementing new minimum age restrictions for unaccompanied guests, right before Spring break.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and discuss economic and political cooperation.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if the United States imposes tariffs, his country has billion of dollars' worth of U.S. products that'll be subject to tariffs as well.

Applications for U.S. jobless benefits rose to a three-month high last week but remained within the same healthy range of the past three years.

The American economy grew at a solid 2.3% annual rate the last three months of 2024, supported by a burst of year-end consumer spending, the government said, leaving unchanged its initial estimate of fourth-quarter growth.

Disasters tend to elicit widespread support for those impacted and the weeks since Los Angeles’ most destructive wildfires are proving no different in that regard.

Officials say a nearly week-long closure of a key crossing on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has disrupted bilateral trade and the movement of people.

The U.K. government has provided provisional approval to the creation of a second runway at Gatwick Airport outside London.

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances.

An independent investigative committee in Greece has released a long-awaited investigation into the country's deadliest train crash.

The European Union is insisting that the 27-nation bloc is not out to undermine the United States as U.S. President Donald Trump put it.

Vietnam is revising its energy plans to focus more on large solar farms and less on reliance on coal and natural gas.

The French defense minister says France is also seeking access to Ukraine’s deposits of critical minerals, indicating that the United States isn’t the only player.

The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest known thefts of cryptocurrency — worth some $1.5 billion — from a Dubai-based firm.

Measures in several state legislatures this year have called for new approaches to weaken the power of judges.

U.S. stock indexes fell sharply as Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology faltered some more.

Unwanted phone calls are out of control.

A private company is launching another lunar lander toward the moon.

President Donald Trump's administration has given New York until March 21 to comply with its order to halt Manhattan’s new congestion pricing system.

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California Democrat Rep. Sam Liccardo is proposing legislation that takes aim at President Donald Trump's meme coin.

Nvidia on Wednesday reported a surge in fourth-quarter profit and sales as demand for its specialized Blackwell chips that power artificial intelligence systems continued to grow.

A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp. to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has privately urged the Trump administration to reconsider a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action against climate change.

Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, it is time for hard work.

A preliminary economic agreement between Ukraine and the United States would ensure long-term U.S. involvement in rebuilding the country, but the deal leaves the question of security guarantees sought by Kyiv to future negotiations.

The Trump administration believes a renewed emphasis on biosecurity can help in the battle against bird flu and ease egg prices.

President Donald Trump says he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors.

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.

Workplace communications platform Slack experienced an outage Wednesday morning as thousands of users reported they were unable to use the service.

Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a generative-AI infused Alexa that it says will allow the popular voice assistant to have more personality, check a user’s tone and even plan romantic dates.

The Senate has confirmed Jamieson Greer to be America’s top trade negotiator.

Apple is fixing a bug within the dictation feature on some iPhones that briefly suggests the word “Trump” when a word with an R consonant is spoken, including “racist.”

President Donald Trump pledged a U-turn away from the Biden administration's commitment to fighting climate change and promoting clean energy.

The Supreme Court seems likely to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is straight.

A state judge tossed out racketeering charges against New Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross and those charged alongside him.

Wall Street once again fixated on an earnings report from Nvidia, the main player in the artificial intelligence mania.

The tech outlet Wired set up a new politics team in time for the presidential election — but its most impactful work is coming after the election is over.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is flying to Washington on a trip aimed at persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain military support for Ukraine.

Royal Caribbean International’s newest Icon class ship will arrive at Port Canaveral this August.

Several nonprofit groups launched fundraising campaigns last week to help organizations who have lost funding because of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance.

A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation.

The latest Jil Sander collection with shimmering surfaces cut dramatically against the darkened runway on the second day of Milan Fashion Week runway previews for next fall and winter.

The Federal Aviation Administration says an American Airlines plane arriving at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport discontinued its landing, performing a go-around to avoid getting too close to another aircraft departing from the same runway.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting.

British energy company BP has confirmed it is to slash spending on green ventures and up its oil and gas production.

America loves trucks.

A culinary program for transgender people in Pakistan is giving members of the community professional training, as well as dignity and hope.

U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish after climbing in the morning but then running out of momentum.

An attorney for a Texas pipeline company says he will show at trial that various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline's construction in North Dakota and defamed the company to its lenders.

Dockworkers on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts have overwhelmingly approved a six-year contract, averting the threat of a strike that could have crippled the economy.

Another $500 million would be spent toward Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in North Carolina in legislation approved unanimously by the state House.

More than 3.2 million Social Security recipients who received pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public service jobs will see an immediate boost in their benefits.

President Donald Trump is directing the government to consider potential tariffs on copper, the latest move by the White House to tax a wide array of imports and reshape global trade.

When it comes to stock markets around the world, this year has clearly not been “America First.”.

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people.

A sweeping power blackout left most of Chile in darkness for several hours.

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.