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A self-driving tractor trailer is displayed at a test track in Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 14, 2024. The truck, outfitted with 25 laser, radar and camera sensors, is owned by Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation Inc. Late this year, Aurora plans to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
People work amid boxes of returned or overstocked clothing, shoes, boots, coats, packs and other items in a warehouse where the goods are cleaned or repaired before they are marketed on resale platforms in Englewood, Colo., on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Secondhand stores are poised to benefit if US tariffs drive up new clothing costs

Stores selling secondhand clothing, shoes and accessories are poised to benefit from the Trump administration’s trade war even as global businesses race to avoid potential damage.
 
Trader Michael Urkonis works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Big Tech’s “Magnificent Seven” heads into earnings season reeling from Trump turbulence

 
Trucks move past piles of containers stacked at a container terminal port on the Yangtze River in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)

China warns countries against making trade deals with the US unfavorable to Beijing

 
A drone hovers in airspace outside the safety perimeter surrounding St. Louis Lambert International Airport as an airliner approaches for a landing on March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports

 
Daniris Espinal stands for a portrait in Sunset Park, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts

 

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Financial Markets

People work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Stock market today: Wall Street edges lower despite solid data on the economy

 

  1. Stock market today: Wall Street rallies as pressure eases from the bond market after Fed decision

  2. Stock market today: Wall Street rises ahead of Fed announcement

  3. Stock market today: Back down goes Wall Street as Big Tech resumes its slide

Personal Finance

FILE - People buy groceries at a Walmart Superstore in Secaucus, New Jersey, July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Groceries are expensive, but they don’t have to break the bank. Here are some tips to save

 

  1. Home Depot, sensing uneasy economic vibe from homeowners and contractors, trims outlook for 2024

  2. How to get relief from unexpectedly high medical bills

  3. What investors should do when there is more volatility in the market

Economy

The Euro sculpture stands in front of the former headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

European Central bank cuts benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to boost stagnant economy

 

  1. Germany’s government slashes its economic growth forecast for this year to 0.3%

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  3. Trump says he will ‘demand’ that interest rates come down, but it won’t be that simple

Tech

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function, in Seattle, Wash. (Forrest Collman/Allen Institute via AP)

Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy

 

  1. Kidnapping and conspiracy charges are dropped against college students in ‘Catch a Predator’ fad

  2. Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures during a news conference, Dec. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska, in which he outlined his budget proposal for the coming year. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Market volatility complicates work for lawmakers in Alaska, a state whose fortunes are tied to oil

President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs and a related drop in oil prices have contributed to the uncertainty for Alaska lawmakers tasked each year with crafting a state budget based on volatile oil prices.
 
Cartons of eggs sit on a shelf in a Walmart store, March 10, 2025, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Expect more fake eggs made of colored marshmallows or even potatoes on this year’s Easter spread

The internet has offered up a host of alternatives as egg prices continue to be stubbornly high. Influencers are dyeing everything from marshmallows to potatoes.
 

Argentina says it will lift the country’s strict currency controls with the help from the IMF

Argentina says it will lift the country’s strict currency controls with the help from the IMF.
 
Argentina's President Javier Milei, left, and Economy Minister Luis Caputo attend the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)

In key milestones for President Milei, Argentina secures IMF deal and ends most capital controls

President Javier Milei says that he will lift most of the country’s strict capital and currency controls next week, a high-stakes gamble made possible by a new loan from the International Monetary Fund.
 

How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 4/11/2025

U.S. stocks jumped in another manic day on Wall Street, but the falling value of the U.S. dollar and other swings in financial markets suggest worries about President Donald Trump’s trade war remain high.
 
Driver Change assist Josh Gibbs pulls Robert Wickens, who was paralyzed from the chest down after a 2018 IndyCar crash, from the car as Tommy Milner gets in the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3R as they practice driving changes, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Long Beach Calif., for Saturday's IMSA auto race. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer)

Wickens returns to elite racing with use of hand controls 7 years after he was paralyzed in a crash

Nearly seven years after he was paralyzed in an IndyCar crash, Robert Wickens will return to elite competition when he drives a Corvette in the IMSA sports car race on the downtown streets of Long Beach.
 

S&P 500 jumps 1.8% as Wall Street closes a chaotic and historic week

S&P 500 jumps 1.8% as Wall Street closes a chaotic and historic week.
 

General Motors temporarily halts a Canada assembly plant because of low demand

Canada’s subsidiary of General Motors says that it’s temporarily halting production and cutting staff at an assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, because of lower-than-expected demand for its electric delivery vehicles.
 
The Treasury Department building is seen, March 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading

The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.
 
A Palestinian man carves an olive-wood sculpture of Jesus Christ at the Zacharia workshop before Holy Week celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

PHOTO ESSAY: Workshops empty, Bethlehem carvers fret over second Easter with no tourists

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days.

On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town known as Jesus’s birthplace would be bustling with tourists.
 
A crane vessel lifts the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Helicopter business in deadly NYC crash had faced debt lawsuits

New York Helicopter has plied the skies around New York City landmarks for decades. But the company had some difficulties before one of its sightseeing choppers plunged into the Hudson River this week, killing all six people aboard.
 
Trucks carrying shipping containers cross the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Could Trump’s tariffs slow emissions? Sure, experts say, but at great cost overall

President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs could cause planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to drop temporarily, but that won’t help the climate long-term. That is according to climate solutions experts.
 
President Donald Trump attends the annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump reaches deals with 5 law firms, allowing them to avoid prospect of punishing executive orders

President Donald Trump has announced deals with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of a punishing executive order.
 
Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Irish privacy watchdog investigates Elon Musk’s X’s use of personal data to train Grok AI chatbot

Ireland’s data privacy watchdog says it’s investigating Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its use of personal data to train his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.
 
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, speaks to journalists after he met with his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

EU irked by Turkish warnings against Greece-Cyprus-Israel electricity cable link, Cyprus says

The president of Cyprus says the European Union is “strongly displeased” with Turkish government warnings that it would obstruct the laying of an electricity cable that would link the power grids of Greece and Cyprus.
 

Ex-Abercrombie CEO has dementia and is unfit for sex trafficking trial, prosecutors and defense say

Prosecutors and defense lawyers say the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is suffering from dementia and isn’t competent to stand trial on federal sex trafficking charges in New York.
 

Oil company fined record $18 million for defying state orders to stop work on pipeline

The vote sets the stage for a potentially high-stakes test of the state’s power to police oil development along the coast. The onshore pipeline in Gaviota gushed more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil onto coastal land and ocean waters, shutting down fisheries, closing beaches and harming marine lif
 
View of the school 'Jesuitas de Sarriá San Ignacio' in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo)

Tragic New York City helicopter crash hits home in Barcelona where victims were well known

Condolences are pouring in for relatives of the Barcelona family that perished in a helicopter crash an ocean away. Spain’s prime minister says Thursday’s crash was unimaginable.
 
In this photo provided by the Ocean Alk-Align project, pink dye is released into Tufts Cove along Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, as part of a project by the company Planetary Technologies to test whether adding alkaline minerals to the ocean can help slow climate change, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (Ocean Alk-Align project via AP)

White - Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more.
 
In this photo provided by the Ocean Alk-Align project, pink dye is released into Tufts Cove along Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, as part of a project by the company Planetary Technologies to test whether adding alkaline minerals to the ocean can help slow climate change, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (Ocean Alk-Align project via AP)

Dark - Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more.
 
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