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Asian stocks rise in quiet holiday trading

Asian stock indexes rose moderately in quiet holiday trading on Good Friday as some markets were closed. Japan's benchmark ...

Scott Pruitt

Ex-EPA chief Pruitt registers as energy lobbyist in Indiana

Scott Pruitt, the scandal-ridden former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, registered as an energy lobbyist in ...

Publishers hurry to release book editions of Mueller Report

With the Mueller Report finally out Thursday, at least in redacted form, publishers are hurrying to release book editions.

Japanese father, son appear in Las Vegas in $1.5B fraud case

Two former investment executives from Japan pleaded not guilty in Las Vegas on Thursday to criminal fraud charges in what ...

National Enquirer being sold to former newsstand mogul

The National Enquirer is being sold to the former head of the airport newsstand company Hudson News following a rocky year ...

Aloha Poke claim revives Hawaiian culture protections push

Last year, much of Hawaii was shocked to learn a Chicago restaurant chain owner had trademarked the name "Aloha Poke" and ...

Alicia Carter, Online Grocery

Food stamps and online grocery shopping are about to mix

Amazon and Walmart on Thursday kicked off a two-year government pilot program allowing low-income shoppers on government food ...

America's 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies

America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its ...

IPO mania: Zoom zooms, Pinterest pins down Wall Street

There's some tech jubilance in the air on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley as a pair of newly public companies — Zoom and ...

Elon Musk

Musk, SEC get another week to reach deal in contempt case

Lawyers for Tesla CEO Elon Musk and U.S. securities regulators are getting another week to negotiate a deal to keep Musk from ...

Harvey Weinstein

Judge scales back Weinstein suit, allows sex-traffic claim

A lawsuit seeking to represent any woman with a claim against Harvey Weinstein can proceed on sex-trafficking grounds, a ...

Americans' energy use surges despite climate change concern

Americans burned a record amount of energy in 2018, with a 10% jump in consumption from booming natural gas helping to lead ...

New Mexico panel surprises Facebook with $39M utility bill

A powerful New Mexico regulatory authority is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new ...

Commission: New NAFTA would deliver modest economic gains

President Donald Trump's new North America trade agreement would give the U.S. economy only a modest boost, an independent ...

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for ...

2 Zooms soared after the IPO: Did you buy the wrong one?

One IPO, two stocks zooming higher. Investors on Thursday pounced on their first chance to buy shares of Zoom Video ...

Facebook says more Instagram passwords exposed than thought

Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook acknowledged nearly ...

San Francisco's campy "Beach Blanket Babylon" show to end

The campy "Beach Blanket Babylon" musical revue that has been a must-see for San Francisco tourists for 45 years is coming ...

Israeli team investigating 'chain of events' in lunar crash

The Israeli start-up behind last week's failed lunar landing said Thursday that it is still investigating a malfunction that ...

Mitch McConnell

McConnell proposes national minimum age of 21 for tobacco

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he plans to introduce legislation to raise the minimum age to buy ...