Economic Indicators

President Donald Trump dismissed the hard realities of his trade dispute with China as mere foolishness Monday and told people to expect humans on Mars "very shortly," which isn't happening.

Greece's stock market has opened up 5 percent, the morning after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap general elections following a resounding defeat of his left-wing Syriza party in European elections.

The European Union's top trade official insists that the agricultural sector cannot be included in negotiations on a new trade agreement the United States, as the U.S. has demanded.

Real estate mogul Franklin Haney contributed $1 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and all he's got to show for the money is the glare of a federal investigation.

Shares were mixed early Monday in Asia in the absence of fresh news on the tariffs standoff between the U.S. and China.

The California Legislature faces key decisions this week, including trying to reign in police use of force, prevent rent spikes, and alter labor laws affecting workers in the gig economy.

A German business group says German companies' trade with Iran has declined sharply as the United States turns up the economic heat on Tehran.

President Trump has been a frequent critic of both the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell.

When President Donald Trump visits Japan, he'll be able to point to Tokyo's streets to drive home a sore point in trade relations between the allies: the absence of made-in-USA vehicles.

Authorities say they broke up hundreds of black market marijuana growing operations in Colorado that flouted the state's cannabis law by raising tens of thousands of plants in Denver-area homes.

The Latest on a fire that destroyed a central Nebraska fertilizer plan (all times local): 5 p.m.

Crews have contained a large fire at a Nebraska fertilizer plant that injured three people and destroyed the plant.

The Latest on Brexit and Britain's political crisis (all times local): 10:05 a.m.

___ CEOs get $800,000 pay raise, leaving workers further behind NEW YORK (AP) — Pay for CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies climbed 7% last year, widening the chasm between the top executives and their workers, whose pay didn't rise as quickly.

U.S. stocks rebounded in morning trading on Wall Street Friday, but were still on track for a third straight week of losses.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday after modest gains erased some of the market's steep losses from a day earlier.

German auto maker Volkswagen has named a new chief executive at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Actor John Ratzenberger says plumbers, stone masons and truck drivers are essential to growth of the U.S. economy.

The few women who are CEOs of the largest U.S. companies typically make more money than their male counterparts but aren't close to the top of the leaderboard for pay packages.

The median sales price of a new home in the U.S. as of April was $342,200