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Walt Disney World will host dozens of portraits of service members and veterans from the nation’s Painter-in-Chief

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Wednesday: Amazon, Pinterest rise; Starbucks, CVS Health fall

Elon Musk’s move to lay off the department responsible for Tesla’s electric vehicle chargers has touched off worries in the auto industry that EVs from other automakers will have trouble joining Tesla’s network

ABC News business reporter Alexis Christoforous breaks down national business headlines.

U.S. jobs openings slid in March to the lowest level in more than three years, but stayed at historically high levels in a sign that the job market remains resilient in the face of higher interest rates

Former President Donald Trump has secured another $1.8 billion worth of shares in Trump Media, according to a regulatory filing this week

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The bungled rollout of a new federal student aid form has left millions of students in limbo and some wondering if their college dreams will survive

Ford is recalling nearly 243,000 Maverick small pickup trucks in the U.S. because the tail lights may not illuminate

CVS Health missed first-quarter expectations and chopped its 2024 outlook more than a dollar below Wall Street’s forecast

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will stress the need for a rules-based international order when he attends a meeting of the Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris

A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson is now proposing paying approximately $6.48 billion over 25 years as part of a settlement in the U.S. to cover allegations that its baby powder containing talc caused ovarian cancer

Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About half of Americans say they're concerned that outlets will report inaccuracies or misinformation

Many car shoppers simply want a vehicle that’s practical, easy to drive and relatively inexpensive

The Biden administration says it'll cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges that closed the last of its campuses in 2023 amid accusations of fraud

Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City’s two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border, but an effort to help the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Royals finance new stadiums in Kansas fizzed

The U.S. economy has faced a months-long stretch of stubborn inflation.

Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with largely peaceful rallies against rising prices and calling for greater rights

Stocks are drifting as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reserve about where interest rates may be heading

A study says the climate phenomenon known as El Nino and not climate change was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama Canal last year

The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still controlled drug was hailed as a monumental step in reshaping national policy

The Taliban takeover three years ago has sent Afghanistan's economy into a tailspin

A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit asserting novel claims about the roles of corporate leaders and arguing that the loyalties of Meta directors and company founder Mark Zuckerberg should not lie exclusively with the social media giant

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug

The Biden administration is out with new guidelines for tax credits for producers of sustainable aviation fuel

After three straight hotter-than-expected inflation reports, Federal Reserve officials have turned more cautious about the prospect of interest rate cuts this year

An insider trading trial has begun for a financial executive charged with enabling his boss and others to make millions of dollars illegally on news that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump's media company public

A Delaware judge has granted a request by attorneys for Donald Trump and Trump Media & Technology Group, parent company of his Truth Social platform, to slow down a merger-related lawsuit filed by two cofounders of the company

At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E

Amazon has reported strong results for the first quarter

Florida is on the verge of repealing what’s left of a 16-year-old law that puts climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions

Starbucks lowered expectations for its full-year sales and profit after a disastrous quarter that saw a slowdown in store visits across the world

U.S. stocks closed out their ugly April with even more losses, cementing the market’s worst month since September

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will test ground beef for bird flu

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 70 cents to $81.93 per barrel Tuesday

Ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months for allowing money laundering on largest crypto exchange

Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the internet company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back

A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election

A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots

A Portuguese-flagged container ship has come under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the Arabian Sea

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country

US drug control agency is moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift, AP sources say

The Federal Trade Commission is challenging patents on 20 brand-name drugs, including the blockbuster weight-loss injection Ozempic

New Jersey is seeking a new round of proposals to build wind energy farms off its coastline, forging ahead with its clean energy goals even as local opposition and challenging economics create blowback to the effort

It’s never fun to be scammed, but if you’re a small business owner then falling for a scam can have long-lasting effects on a business, damaging client relationships and profit

Borrowers with some types of federal student loans have until today to consolidate their loans to qualify for full student loan cancellation or credit toward cancellation

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Eli Lilly, 3M rise; MicroStrategy, Chegg fall

Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that a tycoon's death sentence has been commuted to 20 years in prison after he returned around $2.1 billion in assets from illegally selling oil abroad

Nigerians are struggling with an ongoing fuel shortage, the latest of a series of supply disruptions in the country where many rely heavily on public transportation