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BOSTON (AP) — When Alfred Brownell arrived in a remote Liberian village, the surrounding tropical rainforest had been leveled by bulldozers. Burial grounds were uprooted, religious shrines were desecrated and a stream people...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Music streaming service Spotify says its paying subscribers have reached 100 million for the first time, up 32% on the year and almost twice the latest figures for Apple Music. The Stockholm-based...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are edging mostly higher in early trading on Wall Street as banks and communications companies post gains. Losses in health care...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two companies plan to build underground facilities to store a byproduct of natural gas drilling that’s seen as key to creating a petrochemical and plastics industries — and tens of thousands of jobs — in a...

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s political future is no clearer after a third election since 2015, with experts saying Monday that it won’t be anytime soon before the muddle is resolved. The incumbent prime minister, Pedro...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer spending surged 0.9% in March, the biggest gain in nearly a decade, as inflation pressures remain non-existent. The March gain was the biggest monthly increase since August 2009, the Commerce...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US consumer spending surges 0.9% in March, biggest gain since August 2009, as inflation remains quiet.

HOUSTON (AP) — Anadarko is resurrecting buyout talks with Occidental, setting up a bidding war with Chevron which has offered $33 billion for the energy company. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. accepted Chevron’s bid even though...

Most retirement calculators are optimistic to a fault. They assume our incomes will rise throughout our working lives, or at least stay roughly the same. In reality, our incomes are likely to peak years — and sometimes decades —...

LONDON (AP) — Police in England and Wales are distributing consent forms urging victims of sexual assault and other crimes to turn over access to mobile phones and other electronic devices or risk having their cases dropped. The...