AP National Business

By ELENA BECATOROS, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — In what would be its biggest victory yet in the war with Ukraine, Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s astronaut capsule has arrived at the International Space Station in a critical repeat test flight. Only a test dummy was aboard the capsule for Friday’s docking, a huge achievement for Boeing after years of false starts. The only other time Boeing’s Starliner flew

PLANO, Texas (AP) — The actor who played the Red Power Ranger in the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” films and television series has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy relating to the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program. The FBI said Jason Lawrence Geiger is one of 19 defendants named in the federal indictment. He was arrested

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Ross Stores, Applied Materials fall; Palo Alto, Deckers rise.

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rumbled to the edge of a bear market Friday after another drop for stocks briefly sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its peak set early this year. The S&P 500 index, which sits at the heart of

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market’s slump this year briefly pulled the S&P 500 into what’s known as a bear market Friday, before a late rally put the index in the green. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market clawed back from a midday drop Friday after coming to the edge of its first bear market since the beginning of the pandemic. The S&P 500 ended 18.6% below the record high it set in early January. A

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A divided federal appeals court panel in New Orleans says a hedge fund manager fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission was unconstitutionally denied his right to a jury trial. The 2-1 ruling handed down by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the case

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — Hyundai Motor Group officials confirmed Friday the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge electric vehicle plant near Savannah that will employ thousands _ a deal Georgia’s governor called the largest economic development project in the state’s history. Hyundai Motor Group CEO Jaehoon Chang made

By ELENA BECATOROS, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) — It is critical to find a solution for storing the nation’s spent nuclear fuel, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Friday during a visit to a nuclear power plant in Connecticut. Granholm was invited to tour Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford by Democratic U.S. Rep.

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday to discuss connectivity and other projects in the Amazon rainforest. The meeting, held in a luxurious resort in Sao Paulo state, was organized by Communications Minister Fábio Faria, who

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide. The stock market’s skid this year has pulled the S&P 500 within the grasp of what’s known as a bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s information minister says the country’s outgoing government has approved a recovery plan for pulling the Mideast nation out of its economic meltdown. The development on Friday came during the Cabinet’s last official meeting before it becomes a caretaker government following last weekend’s parliamentary elections. The plan

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, one of Musk’s supporters and Tesla. In an order filed Thursday, Judge James Donato threw out the lawsuit by the investor, Aaron Greenspan, who runs a legal document website.

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general. Trump paid the fine Thursday but must still submit additional

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Another fall for stocks on Friday has the S&P 500 flirting with a 20% drop from its peak set early this year, putting it within the grasp of what Wall Street calls a bear market. The index that’s at the heart

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. energy secretary visited a nuclear power plant in Connecticut on Friday at the invitation of the local congressional member as they both work to change how spent nuclear fuel is stored nationwide to solve a decadeslong stalemate. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Democratic U.S.

By ELENA BECATOROS, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The West moved to pour billions more in aid into Ukraine on Friday, as Russia shifted troops freed up by the imminent fall of the pulverized city of Mariupol and fighting raged in the country’s industrial heartland in the east. Russian