Volkswagen’s CEO has indicated that he’s trying to avoid closing plants as he seeks to turn around the automaker’s performance

An islandwide blackout has hit Cuba for the second time this week

Global oil demand is set to decline this year for the first time since 2020

Kia America has issued a new recall for nearly 463,000 of its Telluride SUVs, urging owners to again park their vehicles outside and away from buildings after several customers reported fires following previous repairs

The buckling of two steel columns at the former Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan has raised questions about one of the nation’s largest office-to-apartment conversions

Volkswagen has reported weak sales numbers, with a significant drop in China

Authorities are investigating a blaze at a shoe factory in southeastern China's Fujian province that killed 28 people, raising renewed concern over worker safety

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, economist Raj Chetty and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King are among a slate of names released by the Federal Reserve Thursday that will help develop recommended changes to the central bank’s operations

African countries have secured $900 million in new financial commitments to expand access to clean cooking

Ashleigh Hallam teaches English at her local library in Indiana

The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial to plead guilty to conspiracy

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his decision to visit Saudi Arabia despite its poor human rights record

Los Angeles officials have urged fans to chose public transit over driving during the 2026 FIFA World Cup

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate drew closer this week to 6.5%, pushing up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers

New York’s attorney general is suing several large chemical and agricultural companies, alleging they knowingly sold harmful so-called forever chemicals used in cosmetics, non-stick cookware and other products

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in June, but a key measure of home prices climbed to an all-time high, adding to prospective homebuyers’ affordability challenges

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dipped slightly last week as layoffs in the U.S. remain historically low

China has reported its exports of passenger cars surged 80% in June from a year earlier, while domestic sales sank 26%, according to an industry group

World shares are mixed and oil prices have slipped after conflict escalated in the Middle East, with Iran and the U.S. launching fresh attacks

Ukrainian drones have hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Ukraine a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than 13 billion Canadian dollars ($9.1 billion) to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States

Police have detained two 15-year-olds who they say were drinking and shooting water beads while riding a self-driving Waymo around town

Oil prices rose, and stock markets dropped in shaky trading worldwide after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran

A new analysis of early rate filings shows that Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing another year of double-digit premium increases

After four years in exile, the prediction market platform Polymarket has begun a well-funded campaign to sell a new version of itself to the American public