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California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills Thursday

Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit to overturn a planned ban on the video sharing app in Montana

TikTok users file lawsuit against Montana over state's first-in-nation law banning the social media app

Nearly two-thirds of for-profit cosmetology certificate programs would face a federal crackdown under new federal rules proposed by the Biden administration

The union that represents railroad engineers has finally secured its first deal for paid sick time with Norfolk Southern

Top sports officials including New England Patriots owner Jonathan Kraft joined with Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and others to celebrate the state’s participation in the 2026 World Cup on Thursday and to help unveil Boston Soccer 2026’s local branding efforts

The United States has reached a modest trade agreement with Taiwan

A wrongful death lawsuit accuses several establishments of overserving the alleged drunk driver who police say slammed into newlyweds riding along a South Carolina beach road in a crash that killed the bride

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Micron Technology, Walmart rise; Monro, Boot Barn fall

Stocks rallied into the close on Wall Street, pushing the S&P 500 up 0.9%, as several companies reported better-than-expected results

The Walt Disney Co. says it's scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida and relocate 2,000 employees from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development

One of Russia’s largest airlines, with an extensive network throughout Siberia, may have to take a third of its helicopter fleet out of service because of trouble getting parts, the airline’s head said Thursday

Google, Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies fueled by social media have dodged a legal threat that could have blown a huge hole in their business models

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 97 cents to $71.86 a barrel Thursday

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing to keep AM radio in the nation’s cars

The suspect in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge

Top negotiators from the White House have met over the debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s emissaries at the Capitol

The new president of Atlantic City's Hard Rock casino got his start in the hospitality industry washing dishes at an upstate New York restaurant at age 15

The U.S. government has approved a proposed multibillion-dollar transmission line that would send wind-generated electricity from rural New Mexico to big cities in the West

Canada’s second largest airline WestJet has started to cancel flights as talks with the pilots’ union are at what the company says is an impasse

A top U.N. official says he hopes for a breakthrough soon after months of efforts to ensure that Russian food and fertilizer can be shipped to developing countries struggling with high prices

Election falsehoods are thriving on Twitter after former President Donald Trump dug in on those claims during a recent CNN town hall

A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit brought by Nantucket residents who argue that the planned construction of dozens of wind turbines off the affluent resort island would threaten the survival of endangered Northern Atlantic right whales

All the hand-wringing over a potential government default if Congress doesn’t increase the national debt limit has conjured up images of past government shutdowns