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Data centers' energy usage is expected to soar in the coming years, experts say.

A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities

Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed

Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in Mississippi

The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth has come to an unexpectedly speedy conclusion

4,326 workers at the Volkswagen facility were eligible to vote.

Tennessee Volkswagen employees vote to join United Auto Workers union, boosting its drive to organize nonunion plants

The bitcoin ‘halving’ is here. It limits the supply of new coins and is the fourth such event for the cryptocurrency

Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula are exploring the possibility of selling a non-controlling, minority interest in the franchise, the team announced

The worst week for big technology stocks since the COVID crash in 2020 dragged Wall Street across the finish line of another losing week

The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend of ethanol for the third summer in a row

Salvage crews at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are turning their focus to the thousands of tons of debris sitting atop the massive cargo ship that veered off course last month

The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments amid complaints by licensed cannabis suppliers that shipments worth more than $300,000 have been confiscated in recent months at Border Patrol checkpoints in southern New Mexico

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery rose 41 cents to $83.14 per barrel Friday

The man who will run this year’s United Nations climate talks in November views the upcoming negotiations as a key link in international efforts to curb worsening global warming — if they can be successful

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: American Express, Fifth Third rise; Netflix, PPG Industries fall

FedEx has pledged $25 million over the next five years to be used in sponsorship deals with University of Memphis athletes

Family members say a former Russian tycoon jailed in Azerbaijan on charges stemming from his time as a top separatist figure in the Karabakh region has gone on a hunger strike

Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union, boosting the UAW's nationwide effort to organize nonunion factories

Apple says it has removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China on Beijing’s orders

The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on two entities accused of fundraising for extremist Israeli-occupied West Bank settlers who have harassed and attacked Palestinians

The French government has announced a new rule that will require stores to tell customers when a product becomes smaller but its price stays the same or increases

Credit card giant American Express posted a 34% jump in its first quarter profits on Friday, helped by more customers spending on its namesake cards as well as more customers keeping a balance on the cards

A group that represents the chemical industry says it strongly opposes the Environmental Protection Agency's designation of two forever chemicals used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances

Tesla is recalling nearly 4,000 of its 2024 Cybertrucks after it discovered that the accelerator pedal can become stuck, potentially causing the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally and increase the risk of a crash

Israel’s long-term credit rating is being downgraded by S&P, which cited the risk of military escalation with Iran

Olympic organizers have unveiled their plans to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology

The U_S_ oil industry’s top lobbying group says Biden administration rules restricting oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska’s petroleum reserve are "misguided."

A group of Japanese doctors has filed a civil lawsuit against U.S. search giant Google, demanding damages for what they say are results showing unpoliced derogatory and often false comments

Shoppers and workers have returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death in an attack that police believe targeted women

The worst week for big technology stocks since the COVID crash in 2020 dragged Wall Street across the finish line of another losing week

Officials say three people have died in the United Arab Emirates as a result of heavy flooding caused by record-setting rains this week

BNSF Railway attorneys told Montana that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town

Eight years after 11 million leaked secret financial documents revealed how some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth, more than two dozen defendants are on trial in Panama for their alleged roles

A bill in California wants to make more rental housing available to tenants with pets

Google says it will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile software and the Chrome browser with the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit wearables

Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings

A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X

Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program

The “miners” who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are taking a 50% pay cut — effectively reducing new production of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, again

Netflix gained another 9.3 million subscribers to start the year while its profit soared with the help of a still-emerging expansion into advertising, but caught investors off guard with a change that will make it more difficult to track the video stre...

San Francisco has sued Oakland after officials there voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job

U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed close following more reports showing the economy remains stronger than expected

It's a full agenda for Ajay Banga as he nears the end of his first year as World Bank president

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for May delivery rose 4 cents to $82.73 per barrel Thursday

The Arizona Coyotes are officially headed to Salt Lake City

New York would expand access to booze under a series of measures unveiled on Thursday as part of a larger state budget agreement

Persistently high interest rates have led Missouri lawmakers to significantly expand a state loan program for farmers and small businesses

The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants