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SAO PAULO (AP) — A few days after being inaugurated, new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced a tax increase, only to have his chief-of-staff say hours later that the boss “had been wrong.” The former army...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An attorney for workers suing General Motors says employees are still facing racial harassment after nooses and racist graffiti were found two years ago at a plant in Ohio. The attorney says one worker found...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former CBS CEO Les Moonves is fighting the company’s decision to deny his $120 million severance package following his firing over sexual misconduct allegations. CBS announced the development in a filing...

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates held steady this week, after falling for six straight weeks to reach their lowest levels in nine months, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. This week Last week Year ago 30-year fixed 4.45 4.45...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sears has confirmed that chairman and largest shareholder Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund has won tentative approval for a $5.2 billion plan to buy 425 stores and the rest of its assets. The move, announced...

BERLIN (AP) — A German union that has called a string of disruptive strikes by airport security staff says it won’t hold any further walkouts ahead of and during pay talks next week. The ver.di union said it decided to put...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Nissan Motor Co. says it’s cutting up to 700 contract workers at its Mississippi assembly plant, citing slow sales for Frontier pickup trucks and vans. The company employs 6,400 employees and...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish radio station reports that a cybersecurity expert charged with spying for China cooperated with the government on the security of the 2016 visit by Pope Francis and hundreds of thousands of young...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers are exploring a quick way to approve sports betting this year, but it’s unclear if they will be able to do it without voter approval in 2020. Voters endorsed a constitutional...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s estranged former lawyer is acknowledging that he paid a technology company to rig Trump’s standing in two online polls. Michael Cohen tweeted Thursday that “what I did...