The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest level in history, losing more than 10% of its value since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November.

Georgia’s outgoing president wants the European Union to press her country’s pro-Russia government to hold a new election.

A Jersey Shore environmental group says damage from decades of toxic waste dumping at one of America's most notorious pollution sites caused $1 billion worth of damages.

Inflation in the U.K. has risen to its highest level since March.

Elon Musk’s attachment to President-elect Donald Trump has created an unprecedented alliance between America’s most powerful politician and its richest businessman.

European markets have started the day higher after a mixed trading session in Asia ahead of the Fed’s last rate decision this year.

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will likely signal a slower pace of interest rate cuts next year compared with the past few months, which would mean that Americans might enjoy only slight relief from still-high borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.

Japanese automakers Nissan Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. have confirmed that they are discussing closer collaboration but denied reports they have decided on a merger.

Grubhub Inc. will pay $25 million to settle a dispute over alleged deceptive business practices with the Illinois attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission.

Amazon Web Services will invest another $10 billion to bolster its data center infrastructure in Ohio.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the incoming Trump administration should proceed cautiously as it considers proposals for new natural gas export terminals.

In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.

A Russian woman who was arrested after she stowed away on a flight from New York City to Paris last month has been arrested again in Buffalo.

Indonesia's mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite.

The Federal Trade Commission says it will soon require hotels, vacation rental platforms and live event promoters to disclose any fees up front when they list prices.

President Joe Biden has endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week.

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made the largest contributions in 2024, and financial aid, especially for medical students, got most of the money.

Small business owners should not forget about a rule that requires them to register with an agency called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, by Jan. 1.

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant want to know when they might get a pig kidney instead.

“Bluey” is heading to the big screen.

Consumers stepped up their spending at retail stores last month, providing a boost to the economy in the early phases of the winter holiday shopping season.

An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time eight years.

Boston is planning to renovate a crumbling stadium in one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods for its new professional women's soccer team.

A new poll finds that Democrats are feeling more pessimistic about the U.S. economy after Donald Trump's victory.

European Union regulators are investigating whether TikTok breached the bloc’s digital rulebook by failing to deal with risks to Romania’s presidential election.

Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son has joined President-elect Donald Trump in announcing plans by technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United States.

Advertisements pasted along the sidewalk in Kyiv ask for donations to help fill financial gaps across Ukraine's military.

U.S. stock indexes trimmed some of their stellar gains for the year.

The U.S. Census Bureau is changing how it counts international migration in its annual population estimates.

Former talk show host Carlos Watson has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison in the federal financial conspiracy case surrounding his once-buzzy Ozy Media.

TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agrees to sell it.

Julie Scelfo started MAMA — Mothers Against Media Addiction — earlier this year to help parents fight back against the harms of social media on children.

Starting in September of 2027, all new passenger vehicles in the U.S. will have to sound a warning if rear-seat passengers don’t buckle up.

A U.S. Senate committee says at least two internal Amazon studies have found a relationship between worker speed and injuries in the online retailer's warehouses.

President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years.

The European Union has imposed fresh sanctions on dozens of officials linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work.

U.S. stock indexes drifted through mixed trading ahead of a meeting by the Federal Reserve later this week that could set Wall Street’s direction into next year.

Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods.

The new year will usher in the bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses.

Americans hoping for lower borrowing costs for homes, credit cards and cars may be disappointed after this week’s Federal Reserve meeting.

The Spider-Man spinoff “Kraven the Hunter” got off to a disastrous start in North American theaters this weekend.

More than 100 kids have been treated to an airplane flight and visit to a hangar at Denver International Airport that was transformed into the North Pole.

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E.

Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish fashion brand Mango, has died after suffering an accident, the company said in a statement.

The reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral was a solemn celebration of cultural and spiritual renewal.

Donald Trump is hosting Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

A federal appeals court has left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States.

Donald Trump got something this year that no other person designated Time magazine's Person of the Year had ever received.

“My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban.

The Supreme Court says it will take up a business-backed appeal that could make it easier to challenge federal regulations, acting in a dispute related to California’s nation-leading standards for vehicle emissions.

A pair of conservative groups are challenging a new Maine law that limits donations to political action committees that spend independently in candidate elections.

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing conversion into a for-profit company.

With a late Thanksgiving, the holiday shopping season is five days shorter than last year, and owners of small retail shops say that people have been quick to snap up holiday décor early, along with gifts for others and themselves.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships the incoming administration.

Elon Musk says the Securities and Exchange Commission wants him to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed — or failed to disclose — about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bought the social media platform in 2022.

The day after a masked gunman killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City, police in San Francisco gave the FBI a potentially valuable tip about the identity of the suspect.

Some banks and banking trade groups are suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a finalized rule that limits overdraft fees banks can charge.

McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work for opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma, according to court papers filed in Virginia.

Residents throughout Serbia have stopped in silence for 15 minutes as part of persistent protests against the populist leadership following the collapse last month of a concrete canopy in the country’s north that killed 15 people.

Moldova’s parliament has voted in favor of imposing a state of emergency in the energy sector over fears that Russia could leave the European Union candidate country without sufficient natural gas supplies this winter.

Chinese leaders met this week to plot economic policy for the coming year and sketched out plans to raise government spending and relax Beijing's monetary policy.

A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the U.K. because of concerns he posed a threat to national security.

The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is likely to bring big changes to seafood, one of the oldest sectors of the U.S. economy.

“The Bibi Files” started with a sudden leak that turned into a deluge.

Stock indexes closed mixed on Wall Street at the end of a rare bumpy week.

President-elect Donald Trump is offering his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports.

Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to dismantle the Amazon soy moratorium.

The popularity of drones has exploded in recent years, as small unmanned aircraft have become cheap enough for many hobbyists to buy.

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Texas winning the national championship next month would be bad news for BetMGM Sportsbook.

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York has prompted health care companies to rethink and increase security for executives.

The first guest invited to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 wasn’t a company executive, a politician or a celebrity.

Up to $60,000 in reward money from the FBI and the New York Police Department's Crime Stoppers program was offered for tips leading to a break in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A prominent luxury real estate broker and his identical twin brother have appeared in a Florida courtroom Thursday on sexual assault charges.

Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly,” despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend a meeting of European Union leaders early next year.

IRS leadership on Thursday announced that the agency has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and proceeds from a variety of crimes.

The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. has eased for the third week in a row.

The December holidays are supposed to be a time of joyful celebration.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he will step down next month to let President-elect Donald Trump name his choice to lead the agency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it's capping overdraft fees at $5 with a rule set to take effect in October 2025, if it isn't overturned by Congress or altered under a Trump administration.

Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund.

An appeals court in Louisiana has ruled that Nasdaq can’t require diversity on the boards of companies that list on the exchange.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits jumped to their highest level in two months last week but remain low relative to historical standards.

Wholesale costs in the United States picked up sharply last month, signaling that price pressures are still evident in the economy even though inflation has tumbled from the peak levels it hit more than two years ago.

Civic engagement nonprofits believe democracy is an exercise in need of constant support — not just extra money around major major campaigns.

DoorDash will require its drivers to verify their identity more often as part of a larger effort to crack down on unauthorized account sharing.

Chinese leaders have wrapped up a two-day planning meeting in Beijing with pledges to take a more proactive approach in pepping up the economy, but gave no details on stimulus measures.

President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognized by Time magazine as its person of the year.

The European Central Bank is cutting interest rates by a quarter percentage point amid signs of weakening growth and concern about the impact of political chaos in France and the possibility of new U.S. import tariffs.

Fewer grandparents were taking care of grandchildren, there was a decline in the number of preschoolers and more people were staying put in their homes in the first part of the 2020s compared with the last part of the 2010s.

U.S. stock indexes fell following some potentially discouraging data on the economy.

New Jersey is seeking to drastically reduce the amount of plastics and other packaging material that's tossed out once a package is opened.

New Jersey is considering charging fees on producers of fossil fuels to help the state that is home to several oil and gas facilities fight the effects of climate change.

Kaja Veilleux has been hunting New England attic treasures for more than 50 years.

The Australian government says it will tax large digital platforms and search engines unless they agree to share revenue with Australian news media organizations.

The Biden administration has announced it is raising tariffs on solar wafers, polysilicon and some tungsten products from China to protect U.S. clean energy businesses.

Embattled Japanese automaker Nissan has tapped Jeremie Papin as its chief financial officer in a major management reshuffle billed as key to a turnaround.