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Biden urges striking auto workers to ‘stick with …

President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default …

FILE - The iPhone 15 phones are shown during an announcement of new products on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. On Tuesday, Sept. 26, a top Apple executive defended the tech giant’s decision to make Google the default search engine on Apple iPhones and Macs, saying there was no “valid alternative.’’ (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Striking Hollywood actors vote to authorize new walkout …

Actors Jack Black, left, and Bob Odenkirk join demonstrators outside the Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Actors are still on strike with no talks planned. But the tentative writers deal announced Sunday night may provide momentum that could lead to a resolution for them too. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Target to close 9 stores including 3 in San Francisco, …

FILE - A Target store is seen June 29, 2016, in Hialeah, Fla. Target announced, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, that it will close nine store in four states, including one in East Harlem, New York and three in San Francisco, saying that theft and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of its workers and customers. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Las Vegas hospitality workers could go on strike as union …

Culinary Union members file out after casting their ballots during a strike vot,e Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, at Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas. Tens of thousands of hospitality workers who keep the iconic casinos and hotels of Las Vegas humming were set to vote Tuesday on whether to authorize a strike amid ongoing contract negotiations. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Stock market today: Wall Street falls sharply as its September …

FILE - Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Chase UK will soon bar its customers from making crypto …

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More money pledged from Michigan for a $3.5 billion …

FILE - Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford announces the automaker's new BlueOval Battery Park, Feb. 13, 2023, in Romulus, Mich. Ford Motor Co. said Monday, Sept. 25, that it's pausing construction of the $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan until it is confident it can run the factory competitively. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Swiss prosecutors indict an ex-employee of trading …

A man walks past the building where is located the Gunvor trading office in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday July 26, 2023. Swiss federal prosecutors on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, said they have indicted a former employee of oil trading giant Gunvor over bribes paid to obtain access to the Republic of Congo's petroleum market more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

Latino charitable giving rates drop sharply — but …

FILE - Volunteers pass out information on the COVID-19 vaccine as people receive food from the 24-hour community fridge at the community center Mixteca during the coronavirus pandemic, Feb. 13, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The share of Latinos who give to established charities has dropped sharply since 2008, a new study has found. The same has been true for other Americans, but the percentage of Hispanics who give to help people in need through less formal efforts is higher than for others in the United States. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, file)

US consumer confidence tumbles in September as American …

General Electric washing machines are displayed at a retailer, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Marietta, Ga. On Tuesday, the Conference Board reports on U.S. consumer confidence for September. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

PBS boasts slate of new shows unaffected by strikes, …

FILE - Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, from left, "Frontline" producer/editor Michelle Mizner, director Mstyslav Chernov, and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko pose for a portrait to promote the film "20 Days in Mariupol" at the Latinx House during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, in Park City, Utah. The “Frontline” documentary collaboration with The Associated Press premieres on PBS on Nov. 21. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)

Musk’s X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, …

FILE - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, Friday, July 28, 2023. A top European Union official said Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc's laws aimed at combating disinformation. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)