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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the top of her bucket list — heading to London for King Charles III’s coronation. After arriving on May 5, the

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sony chairman and CEO Tom Rothman did not hold back Monday on the opening night of CinemaCon in Las Vegas, reminding a crowd of theater owners and exhibitors that Sony is and was the “only major studio dedicated entirely to theatrical.” The studio’s motion pictures

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street edged higher as investors awaited U.S. earnings reports and an update on economic growth. Shanghai and Hong Kong declined while Tokyo advanced. Oil prices were little-changed. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.1% on Monday after Coca-Cola

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Asa Hutchinson is launching his bid for president in the northwest Arkansas city where he was born and got his start in politics. But the city of Bentonville is vastly different from the sleepy small town that Hutchinson remembers. Hutchinson is formally announcing his bid in

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A Japanese company is about to attempt what no other private business has done: land on the moon. Tokyo’s ispace company put its own spacecraft into orbit around the moon a month ago. On Tuesday, flight controllers will direct the craft to descend from lunar orbit and land. The

By KRUTIKA PATHI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India will be the most populous country, eclipsing an aging China, by month’s end. The announcement by the United Nations on Monday has sparked questions about whether India can repeat the economic miracle that took China out of poverty and into the ranks

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials won’t be allowed to use environmental, social and governance factors in investing public funds or deciding who receives government contracts. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly allowed a Republican measure to become law without her signature Monday. Kelly’s decision comes after she vetoed more than

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three major freight railroads are responding to the recent Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. They are agreeing to work together on a competing service to carry shipments across North America. Canadian National, Union Pacific and Grupo Mexico railroads said Monday that they will cooperate to

JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a chemical company has been ordered to pay $16 million and sentenced to two years of probation for its role in a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers. During a court hearing Monday in Houston federal court, DuPont, along with a former supervisor,

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hope Bancorp Inc. (HOPE) on Monday reported first-quarter net income of $39.1 million. The Los Angeles-based bank said it had earnings of 33 cents per share. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The $787.5 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems spared executives and on-air talent from taking the stand in a defamation lawsuit that centered on Fox airing false claims of a stolen election in the weeks after former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss. The lawsuit still

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired longtime host Don Lemon on Monday following his short and disastrous run as a morning show host, a little over two months after he apologized for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley being past her prime. The move quickly turned nasty.

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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An independent union won the right to bargain at a U.S. auto parts manufacturer in central Mexico after U.S. authorities trotted out a special weapon against the use of pro-company unions in Mexico that have long kept wages low. But abuses continued, after Mexican authorities revealed

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Depositors at First Republic Bank pulled more than $100 billion out of the bank during last month’s crisis, as fears swirled that it could be the third bank to fail after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. San Francisco-based First Republic said

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Monday ousted prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose stew of grievances and political theories about Russia and the Jan. 6 insurrection had grown to define the network in recent years and make him an influential force in GOP politics. Fox said that the

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California asked the Biden administration Monday to fast-track federal funds for a private company to build a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. All six of Nevada’s elected federal lawmakers and four House members