The price of oil has slipped and precious metals surged after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a weekend raid.

Hollywood kicked off 2026 with “Avatar: Fire and Ash” atop the box office for the third straight week and with hopes for a blockbuster-filled year after a disappointing 2025.

President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing that country's president in a military raid isn't likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices.

The U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has disrupted Caribbean travel.

Tech companies looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly being voted down.

Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.

Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.

U.S. stocks mostly edged higher on Wall Street in a wobbly start to the new year.

President Donald Trump signed a New Year’s Eve proclamation delaying increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for a year, citing ongoing trade talks.

Enhanced tax credits that have helped Americans offset the cost of Affordable Care Act health insurance for the last four years expired overnight.

Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.

The advice that legendary investor Warren Buffett offered on investing and life over the years helped earn him legions of followers who eagerly read his annual letters and filled an arena in Omaha every year to listen to him at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings.

President Donald Trump made a lot of tariff threats and trade promises this year.

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain low despite a weakening labor market.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains a mystery more than a decade later.

A deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun in the Indian Ocean, reviving efforts to solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

Trains through the Channel Tunnel between Europe and the UK are running again after power malfunctions caused travel chaos.

By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press.

Surveys show that Chinese factory activity expanded for the first time in eight months in December, as orders picked up ahead of holidays and builders rushed to finish projects.

Wall Street fell on the final day of trading for 2025, a banner year for markets that was driven by both optimism and uncertainty.

Lee Enterprises has announced a compromise with the billionaire investor who tried to take over the nation's third-largest newspaper chain this year.

Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping the rate unchanged, minutes released Tuesday show, underscoring the divisions and uncertainty permeating the central bank.

A federal judge has ruled that the White House cannot stop funding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues a push to amp-up AI offerings across its platforms.

Greg Abel faces the challenge of taking over Berkshire Hathaway from the legendary Warren Buffett this week.

Power problems and a stuck train have interrupted rail traffic through the Channel Tunnel connecting the U.K. and continental Europe.

Stocks fell slightly on Wall Street as trading for 2025 nudges closer to the finish line.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded.

Iran is seeing its biggest protests in three years after the currency plunged to a record low against the dollar.

Stocks slipped on Wall Street, while crude oil prices rose and gold and silver prices pulled back after recent sharp gains.

Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.

The shopping rush leading up to Christmas is over and in its place, like every year, another has begun as millions of people hunt for post-holiday deals and get in line to return gifts that didn’t fit, or didn’t hit quite right.

Cambodia says that Thailand hit a site in the country's northwest with an airstrike on Saturday even as the two sides pursue talks to end clashes.

Volunteering with children can build confidence and teach social and problem-solving skills.

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy.

Stocks closed slightly lower as investors returned from the Christmas holiday.

Asian shares are mixed in thin holiday trading, with most markets in the region and elsewhere closed for Christmas.

Many retirement developments serve as a tranquil refuge for older people who can no longer traveling to faraway places or engaging in bold adventures.

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ticked down modestly this week, remaining in the same narrow range of the past two months.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week and remain at historically healthy levels despite some signs that the labor market is weakening.

In a story published Dec. 24, 2025, about a cash relief program that helped families when SNAP payments were paused, The Associated Press, relying on information from GiveDirectly, incorrectly reported that the more than 246,000 beneficiaries reached marked the cash assistance group’s largest disaster response outside the COVID-19 pandemic.

When shopping for a high-quality used car or SUV, who wouldn’t be against a vehicle with a luxury badge that’s loaded with features.

France, Germany, the European Union and the United Kingdom are hitting out at a U.S. decision to impose travel bans on five Europeans the Trump administration accuses of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American views.

French prosecutors say a pro-Russian hacking group has claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack on France’s national postal service.

US stocks drifted higher to more records on a holiday-shortened day of trading.

Venezuela's National Assembly has approved a measure criminalizing activities that hinder navigation and commerce, like the seizure of oil tankers.

A stop-work order by the Trump administration directs offshore wind developers to “suspend all ongoing activities” related to five large-scale projects under construction along the East Coast “for the next 90 days for reasons of national security.”.

This holiday season, many U.S. drivers are getting the gift of lower gas prices.

U.S. consumers were less confident in the economy in December as Americans remain anxious about still-high prices and the impact of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

The U.S. economy economy expanded at a strong 4.3% annual rate from July through September as consumer spending, exports and government spending all grew.

In a breathless year of tariffs unleashed by the administration of President Donald Trump, perhaps no one has had to live the reality of every fluctuation of trade policy than customs brokers.

France's parliament has approved an emergency bill to prevent a government shutdown next week.

The year 2025 was scary good for investors.

Instacart is ending a program where customers saw different prices for the same product ordered at the same time from the same store.

Wall Street closed at another record following a surprisingly strong report on economic growth over the summer.

You can roll over your unused 529 dollars into a Roth IRA or ABLE account, but there are limits.

The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation is calling out Colorado for its slow response to what he describes as major violations of federal commercial driver’s license regulations.

Vincent Zampella, one of the creators behind such best-selling video games as "Call of Duty," has died at 55.

Consumers stepped up gift giving during the first seven weeks of the holiday shopping season, yet uncertainty about the economy is making them more targeted in their buying.

Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimler AG have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests.

A coalition of 21 attorneys general from Democratic-led states has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director, Russell Vought.

Sports were turned upside down 50 years ago Tuesday by a man who never threw or kicked a ball.

Paramount is sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.

Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.

From department stores to grocers, many companies across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours.

The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.

Hours before airtime on Sunday, CBS News' “60 Minutes” held a planned story on President Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach next year’s budget targets.

China has announced provisional tariffs of up to 42.7% on dairy products imported from the European Union.

India and New Zealand say they have reached a free trade deal to deepen economic ties amid global trade uncertainties.

A former Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong has begun testifying against the newspaper.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street at the start of what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week.

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history.

Dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians say there were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while stymying wind and solar.

Power has been restored to most of the 130,000 homes and businesses affected by a massive outage in San Francisco.

Brazil's President Lula da Silva hopes the Mercosur-EU free-trade deal will be signed in January, after it was delayed on Friday.

A paraplegic engineer has become the first wheelchair user in space, blasting off with Blue Origin.

More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now charge Medicaid what they charge in other developed countries.

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Bolivia's largest cities La Paz and Santa Cruz have been brought to a standstill as public transportation workers strike against a 100% fuel price increase ordered by the new government.

Lawmakers across the U.S. will be debating whether to adopt new federal tax breaks for tips, overtime and business expenses.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May despite average long-term mortgage rates holding near their low point for the year.

Sony is taking control of the beloved comic strip Peanuts.

A YouTube content creator whose livestream talking about investments mysteriously appeared to take over a White House website says he has no idea how it happened.

Lack of snow is causing problems for ski resorts and other businesses in the Western U.S. that rely on wintry conditions.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are more likely to prioritize health care than they were last year.

Donald Trump's White House asked TV networks to grant him airtime for the first national address of his second presidency.

Stocks gained ground on Wall Street as AI stocks like Nvidia turned higher again.

President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new concerns about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America.

The head of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged white men to report workplace discrimination based on race or sex.

Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a major figure in late 20th-century state politics, has died at 88.

TikTok has signed a deal to form a new U.S. unit with three American investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — holding a majority stake.

Delivery company Instacart will pay $60 million in customer refunds under a settlement reached with the Federal Trade Commission.

Cannabis companies like Tilray Brands and Canopy Growth could soon face a more mellow path ahead following President Donald Trump’s move to help reclassify the drug’s status.

The House has approved bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects and limiting judicial review.

Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets of the capital and other major cities in Bulgaria calling for fair elections and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage edged lower this week, staying relatively close to its low for the year.

A U.S. official says a Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine.