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FILE - In this Thursday, June 3, 2021, file photo, an elderly patient receives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at Orange Farm, near Johannesburg. Mastercard Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the world, announced Tuesday, June 8, 2021, it will spend $1.3 billion over the next three years to acquire and deliver COVID-19 vaccines for more than 50 million people in Africa. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)
Foundation to spend $1.3B to vaccinate Africans for COVID

By Haleluya Hadero And Gerald Imray Jun. 08, 2021 08:18 AM EDT

Shamans hold a photo of presidential candidate Pedro Castillo of the Free Peru party, as they perform a good luck ritual ahead of the presidential runoff election, at the Cerro San Cristobal in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The June 6 runoff pits Castillo against Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Peruvians to pick new president amid relentless pandemic

By Regina Garcia Cano And Franklin Briceno Jun. 03, 2021 09:25 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 4, 2021, file photo is the Federal Reserve building in Washington.The Federal Reserve says it will start selling off the holdings of one of its emergency lending programs created last year to stabilize financial markets at the height of the pandemic crisis. The Fed announced Wednesday, June 2, it will begin winding down the portfolio of the Secondary Corporate Credit Facility, which at the close of last year held $14.2 billion in assets. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Fed to sell off assets from an emergency loan program

By Martin Crutsinger Jun. 02, 2021 04:54 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 6, 2021 file photo, a LNER Azuma train crossing the Forth Bridge in Edinburgh. Britain plans to bring the national rail network back under government control, reversing one of the most controversial elements of the privatization drive carried out by the Conservative governments of the 1980s and ’90s. Under plans announced Thursday, May 20, 2021, the government will create a new entity known as Great British Railways that will own all railroad infrastructure, set most fares and schedules, collect ticket revenue and run a single ticketing website. Private companies will continue to operate trains under contracts with the state. (Euan Cherry/PA via AP, File)
UK to reunify national rail network under government control

May. 20, 2021 06:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2018 file photo, the logo for General Mills appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. General Mills is diving further into the red-hot pet food market, acquiring Tyson Foods’ pet treat business for $1.2 billion in cash, the companies said Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
General Mills dives deeper into the pet business

By Matt Ott May. 14, 2021 11:39 AM EDT

This Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 photo shows the entrance to a Victoria's Secret store at a shopping mall in Pittsburgh. Brands plans to spin off Victoria’s Secret to shareholders in a move that will make the lingerie and beauty products business a separate, public company. L Brands previously announced that it had been evaluating the possibility of either a spinoff or sale of Victoria’s Secret. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Victoria's Secret to be spun off a year after sale collapsed

By Michelle Chapman May. 11, 2021 08:25 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2021, file photo, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wears a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus as he attends the Saudi Cup award ceremony during the final race of the $20 million, the Saudi Cup, at King Abdul Aziz race track in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The crown prince laid out a vigorous defense of his domestic policies and the thinking behind his push to transform Saudi Arabia economically and socially during a wide-ranging interview broadcast across Saudi television channels late Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Saudi crown prince defends austerity steps, social loosening

By Aya Batrawy Apr. 27, 2021 08:32 PM EDT

Free Peru party presidential candidate Pedro Castillo cooks breakfast for his family in his home in Chugur, Peru, Friday, April 16, 2021. Castillo, a rural teacher, who has proposed rewriting Peru's constitution and deporting all immigrants living in the country illegally who commit crimes, will face rival candidate Keiko Fujimori in the June 6 presidential run-off election. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Students' struggles pushed Peru teacher to run for president

By Franklin Briceño And Regina Garcia Cano Apr. 18, 2021 09:47 AM EDT

Genworth pulls plug on its acquisition by China Oceanwide

Apr. 06, 2021 08:19 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Insurer Genworth Financial has pulled the plug on its long-delayed acquisition by a Chinese company. The provider of...

FILE - This Oct. 15, 2019, file photo shows a WeWork logo at the entrance to one of their office spaces in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. WeWork is merging with BowX Acquisition in a transaction that would value the embattled communal office-space company at $9 billion plus debt and take it public, according to a report.The Wall Street Journal said Friday, March 26, 2021, that WeWork would also raise $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
WeWork stock offer comes amid doubtful need for office space

By Tom Krisher, Michelle Chapman And Kelvin Chan Mar. 26, 2021 11:07 AM EDT

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration joint hearing Wednesday, March 3, 2021, examining the January 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Battling bigness: Congress eyes action against monopolies

By Marcy Gordon Mar. 16, 2021 01:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2018, file photo, a person walks near the entrance to a Toys R Us store, in Wayne, N.J. WHP Global, a New York-based brand management firm that already owns Anne Klein and Joseph Abboud, is taking a controlling stake in the parent company of the Toys R Us and Babies R Us brands. The deal, announced Monday, March 15, 2021, comes nearly two months after the closure of the only two Toys R Us stores that were part of a small U.S. comeback attempt by the iconic toy chain. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Brand firm takes controlling stake in Toys R Us parent

By Anne D'innocenzio Mar. 15, 2021 01:38 PM EDT

Emails show Georgia dorm contractor cut maintenance

By Jeff Amy Mar. 11, 2021 04:20 PM EST
ATLANTA (AP) — Emails obtained by a campus workers' group show that a contractor who runs dormitories at eight public universities in Georgia laid off workers...

Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas files for bankruptcy, seeks buyer

Mar. 03, 2021 01:18 PM EST
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas Holdings, a Texas-based dine-in theater chain, said Wednesday that it has filed for bankruptcy and will enter a...

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2020 file photo, signage for the Goodyear Distribution Center stands in Topeka, Kan. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. is acquiring Cooper tires in a deal valued at $2.5 billion that will combine the two century-old Ohio companies. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, File)
Goodyear acquires Cooper in all-American tire deal

By Matt Ott Feb. 22, 2021 08:02 AM EST

This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Federal investigators are probing a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities, and government agencies and expect the number to rise significantly in coming weeks. The fake 3M masks are at best a copyright violations and at worst unsafe fakes that put unknowing health care workers at grave risk for coronavirus. And they are becoming increasingly difficult to spot. (ICE via AP)
US govt seizes over 10M phony N95 masks in COVID-19 probe

By Colleen Long Feb. 17, 2021 03:04 PM EST

FILE - In this April 12, 2006, file photo, flags wave near the Chicago Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago. Newspaper publisher Tribune has agreed to be sold to Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting costs and eliminating newsroom jobs, in a deal valued at $630 billion. Tribune Publishing Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun and other newspapers, said Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, it has agreed to sell its shares to Alden for $17.25 apiece, in cash. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Tribune agrees to purchase by hedge fund for $630 million

By The Associated Press Feb. 16, 2021 08:08 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2020 file photo, a Palestinian paramedic wearing a full protective suit, takes a nasal swab to test for COVID-19 from a man, at a mosque in Gaza City. The Palestinian Authority said Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 that Israel was preventing it from sending coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip that were intended for front-line medical workers in the territory controlled by the Islamic militant group Hamas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
Palestinians say Israel blocks shipment of vaccines to Gaza

By Joseph Krauss Feb. 15, 2021 03:17 PM EST

This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Federal investigators are probing a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities, and government agencies and expect the number to rise significantly in coming weeks. The fake 3M masks are at best a copyright violations and at worst unsafe fakes that put unknowing health care workers at grave risk for coronavirus. And they are becoming increasingly difficult to spot. (ICE via AP)
Government investigating massive counterfeit N95 mask scam

By Colleen Long Feb. 10, 2021 01:57 PM EST

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, a woman wearing a face mask walks past mannequins wearing face masks in the window of a temporarily closed branch of the Topshop women's clothing chain in London. Online retail company ASOS, confirmed Monday Feb. 1, 2021, it has sealed the takeover of Topshop and three other brands from the collapse of the Arcadia retail empire, buying the brand names but not the high street retail space. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)
UK online fashion retailer buys Topshop, three other brands

Feb. 01, 2021 06:52 AM EST