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WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale prices, driven by escalating costs for services and food, jumped 0.6% in April, surprising economists and providing more evidence that inflation pressures are starting to m...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 473,000, a new pandemic low and the latest evidence that fewer employers are cutting jobs as consumers ramp up...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is offering big lottery incentives - including a $1 million prize and college scholarships - in a last-ditch effort to get people vaccinated before the stat...

QUEBEC - While political and business leaders across the country scramble to avoid a shutdown of Enbridge Inc.'s Line 5 pipeline, Quebec could be spared the most serious consequences if the oil stops ...

BEIJING (AP) - Stock markets in London and Tokyo tumbled 2.5% on Thursday and U.S. futures were lower after a jump in American consumer prices fueled worries inflation might drag on an economic recove...

BOSTON (AP) - A former private equity executive who cofounded an investment fund with U2s Bono was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for his role in the college admissions bribery scheme. ...

BOSTON (AP) - A former private equity executive who cofounded an investment fund with U2s Bono was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for his role in the college admissions bribery scheme. ...

OTTAWA - Britain's trade minister says his country expects to kick-start talks on a free-trade pact with Canada in the fall and suggests it might differ in scope from what is now in place. Ranil Jayaw...

WASHINGTON - Political "brinksmanship" in Michigan risks allowing Enbridge Inc. to abandon plans for a $500-million tunnel that would protect an ecologically sensitive Great Lakes waterway from the co...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A worrisome bout of inflation struck the U.S. economy in April, with consumer prices for goods and services surging 0.8% - the largest monthly jump in more than a decade - and the ye...