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This September 2022 photo provided by the World Food Program shows internally displaced people at the ZamZam camp in El Fasher, North Darfur state, Sudan. (Leni Kinzli/WFP via AP)

Driven to starvation, Sudanese people eat weeds and plants to survive as war rages

Amid battles and food insecurity across Sudan, many people are turning to weeds and wild plants to sustain them. They boil the plants in water with salt, because there is nothing else to eat.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Big banks all pass the Federal Reserve’s stress tests, but the tests were less vigorous this year

In this photo released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society rescuers work at the scene of an explosion after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP)

Middle East conflict threatens to exacerbate inflationary pressure on some things

This Oct. 24, 2016 file photo shows dollar bills in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

It might be tempting to put 401(k) contributions on hold, but sticking with it is a better strategy

Daniel McRae unloads a bag of harvested geoduck clams from his brother, Derrick McRae, on their boat near Illahee State Park in Bremerton, Wash., on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

How a Chinese delicacy got caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war

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Cuban minister unleashes criticism after saying Cuba has no beggars

Cuba’s Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera faced a wave of criticism after claiming that there are no beggars in Cuba, only people disguised as such, and suggesting that those who clean windshields have an “easy” life. (AP video by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán)

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Wall Street rallies and recovers Monday’s losses as the dollar and US bond market steady

Exit of international oil companies threatens to tank the Venezuelan economy

A turbulent week for stock markets comes to a close as trade war concerns continue

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Argentine President Javier Milei, right, and his Economy Minister Luis Caputo enter the Economy Ministry after a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

What does it mean that President Milei ended Argentina’s strict controls on currency and capital?

Venders sell in the street in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Inflation, currency woes worsen Venezuela’s complex crisis as Maduro declares ‘economic emergency’

Intel sells majority stake in Altera to Silver Lake investors in a deal valued at $8.75 billion

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

U.S. markets off to shaky start at the end of unstable week

Trader Drew Cohen, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

US stocks jump and the bond market swings to cap Wall Street’s chaotic and historic week

Head of French dairy federation says the impact of US tariffs on the sector will be significant

The Marathon Garyville Oil Refinery in Reserve, La., is seen Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)

Oil prices fall, then recover, after Trump announces 90-day tariff pause -- excluding China

Iran’s president insists Tehran does not seek a nuclear bomb and dangles US business opportunities

Iran’s currency falls to record low against the dollar as tensions run high

FIL:E - The New York Stock Exchange is shown in New York's Financial District on Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

Stock market today: Wall Street begins Trump’s second term with gains

A woman carries two buckets along a street in the morning on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Here are some of China’s New Year resolutions to boost its economy

How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 12/5/2024

Holiday ornaments adorn the Wall Street side of the New York Stock Exchange in New York's Financial District on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Stock market today: Wall Street edges back from its records as bitcoin briefly pops above $100,000

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, looks up as she holds up the traditional red ministerial box containing her budget speech, as she poses for the media outside No 11 Downing Street, before departing to the House of Commons to deliver the budget in London, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Financial market worries over the UK budget appear to ease

FILE- This photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington, June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Cryptocurrency exchange network accused of helping Russia hit with sanctions

Barcelona's Jules Kounde (23) is congratulated after scoring his side's 3rd goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Valladolid at the Olympic stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Barcelona has its spending limit increased but remains well below Real Madrid’s cap

Harris unveils economic plan, proposes federal ban on grocery price gouging

FILE - Electronic screens in New York's Times Square announce the Robinhood IPO, July 29, 2021. Robinhood Markets Inc. is buying crytocurrency exchange Bitstamp, Thursday, June 6, 2024, for about $200 million as the company looks to speed up its cryptocurrency expansion globally. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Robinhood buying crytocurrency exchange Bitstamp for about $200 million

Logos of Honda Motor Co. are pictured in Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 13, 2019. Japanese automaker Honda reaffirmed its commitment to electric vehicles Thursday, May 16, 2024, saying it will invest 10 trillion yen ($65 billion) through fiscal 2031 to deliver EV models around the world, including the U.S. and China. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japanese automaker Honda revs up on EVs, aiming for lucrative US, China markets

FILE - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court, June 15, 2023, in New York. FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that. FTX said in a court filing late Tuesday, May 7, 2024, that it owes about $11.2 billion to its creditors. The exchange estimates that it has between $14.5 billion and $16.3 billion to distribute to them. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

A timeline of the collapse at FTX

People stand in line outside a bank hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM, in Havana, Cuba, Monday, April 22, 2024. An increasing number of Cubans are having to grapple with the country's shortage of cash. (AP Photo/Ariel Ley)

Long lines form and frustration grows as Cuba runs short of cash

FILE - The European Central Bank is reflected in the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, March 21, 2024. The inflation that has squeezed European shoppers fell more than expected in March to 2.4%, as cost spikes in the grocery aisle eased and overall price rises headed down in the two biggest economies, Germany and France. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Inflation has slid again in Europe. Here’s what that means for interest rates

FILE - A man walks past a depiction of Evergrande properties across a China map at a partially shuttered Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing, on Jan. 29, 2024. Troubled property developer China Evergrande Holding says Beijing’s stock watchdog has fined it 4.2 billion yuan ($333.4 million) for allegedly falsifying its revenue, among other allegations. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China’s stock watchdog fines property developer Evergrande, slaps lifetime ban on its chairman

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers addresses a joint session of the state Legislature in the Assembly chambers during his State of the State speech at the state Capitol, Jan. 22, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Evers signed a bill Wednesday, March 6, 2024, that authorizes spending hundreds of millions of dollars on Universities of Wisconsin construction and renovation projects. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Evers signs bill authorizing new UW building, dorms that were part of deal with GOP

A woman walks by China's central bank, or the People's Bank of China in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. China's central bank announced it cut its five-year loan prime rate while leaving its one-year rate unchanged. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China cuts key interest rate in latest move to boost its ailing property sector

Pedestrian shop for food at the Mile 12 Market in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Nigerians are facing one of the West African nation's worst economic crises in as many years triggered by a surging inflation rate which follows monetary policies that have dipped the local currency to an all-time low against the dollar, provoking anger and protests across the country. (AP Photo/Mansur Ibrahim)

Nigeria’s currency has fallen to a record low as inflation surges. How did things get so bad?

FILE - Chase Bank ATMs are shown, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bucking industry trends, Chase to open 500 new locations largely in cities where rivals dominate

Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham reacts during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Almeria at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue )

Infantino refloats idea of using algorithm to set soccer player transfer fees in $10 billion market

FILE - President of the football club AS Monaco, Dmitry Rybolovlev, attends a French league two soccer match between Monaco and Caen at the Louis II stadium on May 4, 2013, in Monaco. Rybolovlev who accused Sotheby’s of teaming up with a Swiss art dealer to cheat him of tens of millions of dollars became tearful in court Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 as he testified that he considered the dealer to be like family before discovering he'd been defrauded by an “art market that needs to be more transparent.” (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2 billion on art tells jurors Sotheby’s cheated him