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Alibaba records first quarterly operating loss since IPO

Alibaba had its first quarterly operating loss since it went public in 2014 after Beijing slapped a record $2.8 billion fine ...

Biden team moves swiftly to tackle pipeline political peril

The Biden administration swung aggressively into action after a primary gasoline pipeline fell prey to a cyberattack — ...

US cities see surge in deadly street racing amid pandemic

Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger ...

Big 0.6% April wholesale price jump catches many off guard

Wholesale prices, driven by escalating costs for services and food, jumped 0.6% in April, surprising economists and providing ...

Morning shows extend the day to cope with viewer erosion

A recent job promotion came with what seems to be a counterintuitive mandate for NBC News senior vice president Libby Leist: ...

McDonald's raising US workers' pay in company-owned stores

McDonald’s is raising pay at 650 company-owned stores in the U.S. as part of its push to hire thousands of new workers in a ...

Tunisia to reopen economy despite hospital strain

Tunisian authorities plan to reopen the economy next week amid public pushback against virus restrictions, even as the ...

China says Xiaomi removal from U.S. blacklist "beneficial"

China’s commerce ministry on Thursday welcomed the removal of Xiaomi Corp. from a U.S. government blacklist, a day after the ...

Scrum of challengers awaits Cheney after House GOP ouster

For pro-Trump Republicans, removing Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership was relatively easy. Booting her from office ...

Justices consider hearing a case on 'most offensive word'

Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, ...

AP Top Stories May 13 A

Here's the latest for Thursday May 13th: More Israel-Gaza fighting; Massive gas pipeline restarted; Two small planes collide ...

Pipeline hack sends people scrambling for fuel in the South

A run on gas following a computer hack of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline had North Carolina tow-truck driver Jonathan ...

As chip shortage goes on, cars are scarce and prices are up

For the next few months, Charlie Gilchrist figures his 11 car dealerships in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will sell just about ...

Official: Repairs to interstate bridge could take months

Repairs to the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee could take months after a crack was found in the span, ...

Conservation rescues pandemic-hit oyster farmers

Pandemic-hit oyster farmers are rescued by a program that buys and deploys surplus stock onto depleted shellfish reefs to ...

Australian telco fined $39M for exploiting Indigenous folk

Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra was fined 50 million Australian dollars ($39 million) on Thursday for ...

Ohio's million-dollar idea: Lottery prizes for vaccinations

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled a lottery system Wednesday to entice people to get COVID-19 shots, offering a weekly $1 ...

Colonial Pipeline restarts operations days after major hack

The nation's largest fuel pipeline restarted operations Wednesday, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers

Facebook-backed digital currency project Diem shifts to US

A once-ambitious Facebook-backed digital currency project — formerly known as Libra, now called Diem — is shifting operations ...

Tesla to stop accepting Bitcoin for car payments

Electric car maker Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, citing environmental ...