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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc., down 14 cents to 20 cents. Richard Branson’s satellite launch company is letting go of almost its entire work force. Pineapple Energy Inc., up 16 cents to $1.59. The broadband network services company beat analysts’ fourth-quarter financial

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Pressure is mounting on an obscure U.N. body based in Jamaica to hit pause on plans to potentially open the world’s deep seas to mining as companies push for permission to extract metals from seabeds in international waters. The International Seabed Authority on Friday

By The Associated Press California and three other states have joined a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking JetBlue’s $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit Airlines, which is scheduled for trial this fall. New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina also joined in an updated version of the complaint that was filed Friday in federal district court in

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rallying Friday, as Wall Street closes out a winning March and first quarter of the year despite a long list of worries for investors. The S&P 500 was 1.1% higher in afternoon trading. It’s on pace for a 3.1% gain for the month

The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said Friday the Biden administration hasn’t given any feedback to the company since TikTok’s CEO testified in Congress last week. During a panel conversation at a conference in San Francisco that featured top government officials, tech executives

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The largest telecommunications deal in Canadian history will go forward after Rogers Communications Inc.’s $26-billion Canadian (US$19 billion) takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. received approval from Ottawa.  The approval means the deal has cleared its final regulatory hurdle just over two years after it was first announced. Canada has among the

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A joint study by two federal government scientific agencies and the commercial fishing industry documents numerous impacts that offshore wind power projects have on fish and marine mammals. They include noise, vibration, electromagnetic fields and heat transfer that could alter the marine environment. The report

By SAM METZ and ANNA FURMAN Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — When two skiers collided on a beginner run at an upscale Utah ski resort in 2016, no one could foresee that seven years later, the crash would become the subject of a closely watched celebrity trial. But Gwyneth Paltrow’s live-streamed trial over

By FRANCES D’EMILIO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules. The government’s privacy watchdog said Friday that it’s taking provisional action “until ChatGPT respects privacy.”

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Biden administration cleared the way Friday for California’s plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, part of the state’s efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas like ports along the coast. The decision by

By AMANDA SEITZ and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An annual report on Social Security and Medicare says the financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions more young people are counting on will run short on funds to pay full benefits within the next decade. The Social Security and

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The federal government filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and rivers. The U.S. Department of Justice said it’s seeking to hold the company accountable for “unlawfully polluting the nation’s waterways

By ELENA BECATOROS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians are commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of Bucha after a brutal Russian occupation a year ago left behind hundreds of dead civilians, some with signs of torture, establishing the town near Kyiv as an epicenter of the war’s atrocities. President Volodymyr

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of five European Union members helping the transit of Ukrainian farm produce to third countries are calling for EU action over a glut that resulted from the goods not leaving for their destinations, bringing down prices in their own markets and angering farmers. Poland, Romania and other countries stepped

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rising Friday, and Wall Street is on track to close out a winning March and first quarter of the year despite a long list of worries being thrown at it. The S&P 500 was 0.9% higher in afternoon trading. It’s on pace for

By FRANCES D’EMILIO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Italian government’s privacy watchdog said Friday that it is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach. In a statement on its website, the Italian Data Protection Authority described its action as provisional “until ChatGPT respects privacy.”

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By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SALLY HO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from the U.S. government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a nationwide ban if it defies a government order to sell to an American company — unless the popular social media app can convince a high-powered panel that

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street, keeping the market on track for a winning March despite a long list of worries being thrown at it. The S&P 500 was 0.4% higher early Friday. The index is on pace for a gain for the month and a second winning quarter in