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Connecticut's reputation has taken another major blow with the announcement that United Technologies Corp. will be moving its headquarters to Massachusetts as part of its planned merger with Raytheon.

___ US employers hired a record number of people in April WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers hired the most people on record in April, while the number of open jobs was largely unchanged, evidence that the job report remains solid.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Monday after President Donald Trump suspended plans to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Monday: Raytheon Co., up $1.28 to $187.19

There's yet another new streaming service coming in the next year.

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With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd's homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone?

Prices for iconic luxury cars are dropping significantly, according to a report, which could be because of the expanding market for luxury cars.

President Donald Trump is complaining that President Xi Jinping enjoys a major advantage in the U.S.-China trade war in that he controls China's central bank while Trump must deal with a Federal Reserve that is "very destructive to us." Trump makes clear in an interview with CNBC his frustration with a system that provides political independence for America's central bank — something most economists see as vital to its credibility.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether residents of two Montana communities can continue their decade-long effort to get the Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay for a more thorough cleanup of arsenic left on properties after a century of copper smelting.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. restored power to more than 20,000 customers in Northern California after the company shut it off over the weekend to guard against wildfires amid a heat wave that fueled a blaze still burning in a rural area, officials said Monday.

Gambling regulators in New York have voted to allow sports betting at four upstate casinos.

Greece is on track to hold a national election July 7, three months before schedule, after the country's president accepted a request by left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to dissolve parliament.

Shares of Kraft Heinz are up sharply in the first day of trading since the company said that financial misstatements in revealed last month were not quantitatively material.

The Louisiana-based McIlhenny Co., which produces Tabasco sauce, has named the great-great-grandson of Tabasco creator Edmund McIlhenny as its new president and chief executive officer.

An unusually large swarm of local locusts, estimated in the millions, is plaguing farmers raising sheep and other livestock in Sardinia.

A study by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that seniors living in major metropolitan areas, especially in the Northeast, were more likely to continue working past age 65 versus those in other areas around the country.

Raytheon Co. and United Technologies Corp. are merging in a deal that creates one of the world's largest defense companies.

The Supreme Court is siding with an Alabama company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute.

U.S. employers hired the most people on record in April, while the number of open jobs was largely unchanged, evidence that the job market remains solid.