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Plans for a twin-tower residential building in New Jersey championed by Jared Kushner are in danger of collapse as his family's real estate company threatens legal action; Says Jersey City officials are 'playing politics'

A wildlife photographer who won an appeal in a copyright lawsuit over selfies taken by a monkey says he is delighted

An administrative law judge says Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline only if it follows the existing route rather than the company's preferred route

A company based in Taiwan plans a $9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex in Louisiana and has bought a 2,400-acre site

Federal prosecutors say four former Wilmington Trust Corporation executives knew they were misleading banking regulators and investors by concealing the truth about the bank's imploding commercial loan portfolio following the 2008 financial crisis

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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to their highest levels in more than nine years.

Stocks are closing mostly lower on Wall Street after an early gain faded away.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals says four protesters can use an unusual "necessity defense" against criminal charges from trying to shut down two Enbridge Energy oil pipelines

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is counting a hiring push to help alleviate overcrowding and on-time problems for New Jersey Transit's buses

The Supreme Court is wrestling with a case brought by a former financial adviser known for his "Buckets of Money" strategy

Gains for health care and technology companies and retails are taking stocks higher

Major global brands tell AP they've been punished by Alibaba after refusing exclusive partnerships with the e-commerce giant, which denies wrongdoing

The University of Rhode Island will try to improve fisheries management in the Philippines with a new $25 million federal grant

A Democratic Ohio governor candidate is calling for a criminal investigation into a whistleblower's claims that a now-shuttered online charter school used software to inflate attendance figures.

An administrative law judge is expected to recommend whether Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota

Striking French train workers have occupied a building in a surprise protest against President Emmanuel Macron's reforms of the state-run rail company

Trump has courted coal miners and pushed for offshore drilling, but also vows to help develop offshore wind

The EU says that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron will press Trump to exempt the bloc from planned U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs when they visit him this week.

Greece has beaten bailout budget targets for a third successive year and eased its massive debt burden by a fraction