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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: IBM, Las Vegas Sands fall; Crocs, AutoNation rise.

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A wave of buying in the last hour of trading left stocks mostly higher on Wall Street, enough for the S&P 500 to beat the record high close it set in early September. The market had spent most of the day wobbling between gains and

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American and Southwest Airlines are reporting that they made profits in the third quarter, thanks to large amounts of government pandemic relief. The airlines said Thursday they are expecting strong traffic over the holidays if cases of COVID-19 keep declining. The highly contagious delta variant cut

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A group of environmental organizations has filed court papers to try to halt operations at Maine dams as part of an effort to protect salmon. Atlantic salmon are listed as endangered by the federal government, and the only rivers they return to in the U.S. are in Maine. The conservation groups

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced that millions of lower- and medium-income motorists will each be given 100 euros ($116) in one-off financial assistance to help them cope with rising gasoline prices. Castex said on TF1 television Thursday that it was “an exceptional response to an exceptional situation.” The measure will

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people. Estimates range from 4 million to 7 million Americans gaining health coverage as a result of the legislation. One analysis says that

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia can quickly boost natural gas supplies to the European Union once German regulators allow a new pipeline under the Baltic Sea to start operation. Speaking on a wide range of international and domestic policy issues during a conference of foreign policy

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City are preparing to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board. It would be an important milestone in efforts to form a collective bargaining

By JILL COLVIN and ALEX VEIGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some investors aren’t waiting to see if former President Donald Trump’s plans for a media company to challenge the likes of Facebook, Twitter and even Disney can actually become reality _ they’re all in. Trump said Wednesday that he’s launching Trump Media &

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A group representing Navajo communities is presenting its case to an international human rights body, saying U.S. regulators violated the rights of tribal members when they cleared the way for uranium mining in western New Mexico years ago. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights based

By JIM RENDON of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Global philanthropic spending to help halt climate change grew last year — but still remains less than 2% of all giving, according to a new report from the ClimateWorks Foundation. In 2019, the group estimates that $5 billion to $9 billion went to curb

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is imposing a sweeping new set of restrictions on the investments its officials can own, a response to questionable recent trades that forced two top Fed officials to resign. The Fed announced Thursday that policymakers and senior staff would be barred from investing

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government panel of experts is meeting to decide how best to expand the nation’s COVID-19 booster campaign. The panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is discussing Thursday who should get extra doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

By MARK GILLISPIE and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A newly surfaced text exchange between then-FirstEnergy Corp. executives give a new peek into the favors the company got from Ohio’s top utility regulator. The person referenced in the texts, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chair Sam Randazzo, has since resigned. He

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook’s semi-independent oversight board says the company has fallen short of full disclosure on its internal system that exempts high-profile users from some or all of its content rules. The board says in a report that Facebook has not been fully forthcoming with the overseers about

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer An international organization that monitors and sets guidelines to protect against money laundering and terrorism financing has added Turkey, Jordan and Mali to its watch list. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force’s “gray list” calls for increased scrutiny of financial dealings with the three countries. The group also announced

German transportation company FlixMobility is buying Greyhound’s bus operations in the U.S. in order to strengthen its position in the country. The purchase price is $140 million cash plus another $32 million to be paid in installments over 18 months. FlixBus Global serves more than 2,500 destinations in 36 countries outside the U.S. with 400,000

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In its first significant action under a new director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Apple, Amazon, PayPal and other tech giants to reveal how their proprietary payment networks function. Apple Pay, Google Pay and other payment systems created by big tech companies now

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Tiny Cyprus aims to join the global space exploration drive by developing a compact, X-Ray instrument capable of dating Martian soil and rock samples relatively accurately to potentially reveal more about the Red Planet’s geological history and offer a glimpse of Earth’s own future. George Danos, President of the Cyprus Space