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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

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. 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

Authorities say lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year

Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations have committed to phase out coal power by 2035

The FBI says scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year

Grammy-award winning pop star Dua Lipa's third album, “Radical Optimism,” releases Friday

Zimbabwe has started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by depreciation and often outright rejection by the people

The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent

The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has had enough of tourists

U.S. consumer confidence deteriorated for the third straight month as Americans continue to fret about their short-term financial futures

Nations finished a round of negotiations early Tuesday on a treaty to end plastic pollution and made more progress than they have in three prior meetings

A Finnish court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than six years in prison for hacking thousands of patient records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking ransom from some patients over the sensitive data

Europe’s economy perked up slightly at the start of the year, recording 0.3% growth in the January-March quarter as the inflation burden on consumers eased and the stagnating German economy, the continent’s biggest, started to show modest signs of life

Rapidly climbing sales of the new obesity drug Zepbound and its counterpart for diabetes, Mounjaro, pushed Eli Lilly to a better-than-expected first-quarter profit

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical widely used as a paint stripper but known to cause liver cancer and other health problems

EPA bans consumer use of methylene chloride, a toxic chemical used as a paint stripper but known to cause liver cancer

Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more quickly in the first three months of this year, a trend that could contribute to higher inflation and raise concerns about the future path of price increases at the Federal Reserve

Walmart is closing its health centers and virtual care service after struggling to find success with the offerings

Some 170 foundations, donors and advisors have signed on to a pledge started by the nonprofit Democracy Fund to make their grants earlier this Election Year

The European Union says it’s investigating Facebook and Instagram for suspected violations of the bloc’s digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections

McDonald’s plans to step up deals and value messaging to combat slowing sales

HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, says that CEO Noel Quinn plans to retire after serving nearly five years in the post

Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium pulled out of a takeover bid

Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency

A growing number of cities are passing tax increases to expand access to child care

Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year