Asian stock markets are higher after Wall Street fell on concern the U.S. economy may be weakening following a report that showed growth in service industries slowing

Online racist abuse of soccer players is prolific on social media platforms

Actors represented by the Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA voted to authorize a strike if the major studios, streamers and production companies don’t meet their demands for a new contract by June 30

Oregon’s attorney general has announced she has begun investigating the board of directors of Fox Corp. for breaching its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims about the 2020 presidential election

Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console

Apple has unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter’s ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public’s imagination

A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania last week caused damage to nearby homes

A federal judge has yanked the U.S. government's approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho

Members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources have launched an investigation into ties between Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and an environmental group in her home state that has advocated for stopping oil and gas development

Senegal experts have called on the government to instill calm after days of the country’s deadliest violence in years and concerns it could have lasting consequences

Two insurance industry giants have stepped back from the California marketplace

People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare, if startling, sound: A sonic boom

Apple has a long history of designing products that aren’t the first to be introduced in a particular category but still redefine the market

The bodies of three Iowa men have been recovered from a collapsed apartment building in Davenport

Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain

Norfolk Southern has become the first major North American freight railroad with deals to provide sick time to all of its workers

The Biden administration is handing out more than $570 million in grants to help eliminate railroad crossings in 32 states just as the industry is increasingly relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs

Anna Shay, an heiress, philanthropist and breakout star of the Netflix reality series “Bling Empire,” has died

Ukrainian forces are making a major effort to punch through Russian defensive lines in southeast Ukraine for a second day in what may be the start of a counteroffensive

Nations have resumed talks on tackling global warming with the aim of shaping a deal that might put the world on track to prevent a dangerous increase in temperatures

The Supreme Court says it will hear a case in which a man tried to trademark a phrase mocking former President Donald Trump as “too small.”

Authorities in North Macedonia say 10 men have been arrested as suspected members of an international people smuggling ring following an investigation that lasted nearly two years

Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with accessing and using the email platform Monday morning

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of people linked to Russian intelligence who it says has helped the Kremlin destabilize Moldova’s democratically elected government through protests in the Moldovan capital earlier this year