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Rita Moreno says it was always in her nature to be generous – to hold doors for people and help lighten a mother’s load if she was struggling with shopping bags and children

Senate Republicans are returning to a strategy they hope could neutralize their Democratic rivals' financial edge: Find rich people to run

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continent’s eastern half

Wall Street is pointing toward gains early to kick off a quiet week for economic data but another full slate of corporate earnings

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed China's Xi Jinping for a two-day state visit to France

The Biden campaign and top Democrats are wrestling with how best to use artificial intelligence, exposing the party’s anxiety over falling behind Republicans in the race to deploy technology that could transform the future of elections

Brad Parscale, the digital guru behind Donald Trump's surprise 2016 presidential victory, has become an evangelist about the power of artificial intelligence to transform how Republicans campaign for office

Brad Parscale was the digital campaign operative who helped engineer Trump’s 2016 presidential victory with the heavy use of Facebook ads

Text journalism's biggest day of the year has arrrived with the annual announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes

Qantas Airways has agreed to pay $79 million in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights

Kim Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division

This year’s Berkshire Hathaway meeting gave shareholders their best chance yet to hear from the man who will one day take over as CEO when Warren Buffett is gone

Europe’s Airbus had established a clear sales lead over Boeing even before the American company encountered more fallout from manufacturing troubles and ongoing safety concerns

Chinese President Xi Jinping is kicking off a three-country trip to Europe with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing’s growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry

Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close

Shareholder proposals are usually uneventful at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, but Warren Buffett and the company are now facing a lawsuit over the way one presenter was treated last year

The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in when the league’s app couldn’t broadcast the game

Workers have demolished a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck

Berkshire Hathaway says its first quarter profit plummeted on the paper value of its investments

Madonna has put on a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, turning the vast stretch of sand of Copacabana beach into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans

Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area and brought in replacements after the latest round of negotiations with the firefighters’ union failed to deliver an agreement on ...

The union consists of 125 members in Washington state.

Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA after years of delays and stumbles

Dapper Dan plans a fashion renaissance after losing everything.

South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops

Tanzania's meteorology department says Cyclone Hidaya has significantly weakened as it approaches Tanzania’s coastline

Buffett cautioned the tens of thousands of shareholders at his annual meeting.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the auditing firm hired by Trump Media and Technology Group just 37 days ago with “massive fraud” — though not for any work it performed for former President Donald Trump's media company

A federal report says safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults

Boeing is already facing questions about quality and safety of its aircraft, and now it has a labor showdown on its hands in Seattle

Major League Baseball uniforms will have larger lettering on the back of jerseys and individual pant customization will be available to all players beginning in 2025

Stocks closed sharply higher on Wall Street, erasing their losses for the week, after the government reported a cooldown in hiring last month

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 84 cents to $78.11 per barrel Friday

Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island

The health insurer Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit over whether its fertility treatment coverage discriminates against LGBTQ+ patients

The Walt Disney Co. issues its latest quarterly earnings report on Tuesday; pizza maker Papa John’s offers up its first-quarter financial results on Thursday and on Friday the University of Michigan releases its preliminary May index of consumer sentiment

The chief of staff of a Chinese businessman sought by the government of China has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges weeks before her boss goes to trial in New York in a fraud case

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Apple, Amgen rise; Expedia, Fortinet fall

U.S. employers added 175,000 jobs in April.

The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine constitutes an illegal monopoly

Workers have begun removing a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says new rules governing electric vehicle tax credits are a giveaway to China

US employers scaled back their hiring in April, adding 175,000 jobs in the face of higher borrowing rates

A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argues that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy

Nippon Steel says it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice requested more documentation related to the deal

The King’s Trust has celebrated its new name, an update of King Charles III’s long-running charity The Prince’s Trust

Stocks closed sharply higher on Wall Street, erasing their losses for the week, after the government reported a cooldown in hiring last month

The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over

A weekly newspaper in a rural Oklahoma community was at the center of a path of destruction