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Japan is calling for further efforts to cut carbon emissions by promoting renewables but also nuclear energy despite the 2011 Fukushima reactors meltdowns.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has pledged to donate $500 million into an effort to shutter all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030.

Hiring decelerated in most major industry sectors in May, with four such sectors recording job losses.

The unemployment rate for black Americans declined in May to 6.2% from 6.7% in April.

A giant plastic palm tree that has become an artistic symbol of Warsaw has "died" as part of a stunt to draw attention to climate change.

Plant-based meat company Beyond Meat beat expectations in its first earnings report since it debuted on the stock market last month, while shares jumped to 20 percent.

Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone services, especially those delivered via the cloud, have become the standard these days, especially for small to midsized businesses (SMBs).

The The annual Susan G. Komen Greater NYC Impact Award luncheon raised more than $500,000.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the World Trade Organization needs mending to keep up with the times.

German factory production has fallen more strongly than expected in April and exports have dropped sharply in a weak start to the second quarter in Europe's largest economy.

Nissan wasn't consulted on the proposed merger between its alliance partner Renault and Fiat Chrysler, but the Japanese automaker's reluctance to go along may have helped bring about the surprise collapse of the talks.

Teachers say they're seeing so much student anxiety that a national union newsletter labels it a "mental health tsunami."

After decades of building a domestic market for Tequila Cascahuín, Salvador Rosales readied the family business for a plunge into the U.S. export market this year.

Major automobile manufacturers are urging the Trump administration and California restart negotiations over vehicle mileage standards to prevent a legal battle.

Officials in Las Vegas are marking the start of direct KLM Royal Dutch Airlines service from Amsterdam following the arrival of the first scheduled flight.

Vice President Mike Pence dropped in Thursday on the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, where he toured a maker of packaging robots and urged Congress to pass a new trade pact with Canada and Mexico to benefit Pennsylvania's manufacturing sector.

Straining to stave off threatened U.S. tariffs, Mexican and American officials are claiming progress in White House talks.

Video exposing alleged animal abuse at a famous northwestern Indiana dairy farm is politically motivated, said an Indiana lawmaker who drafted legislation in 2013 that would have barred undercover video filming at the state's agricultural operations.

The Latest on the arrest of a protester who approached Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos on stage at a conference in Las Vegas (all times local): 4:35 p.m.

Enbridge Inc. is asking a Michigan court to rule on the legality of an agreement it reached with former Gov. Rick Snyder to build an oil pipeline beneath the channel linking lakes Huron and Michigan.