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Total GivingTuesday donations were flat this year, …

FILE - Utah Food Bank volunteers load groceries for the needy at a mobile food pantry distribution site Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Supporting nonprofits on GivingTuesday this year could have a bigger impact than usual as nonprofits and industry groups say donations so far are down compared with previous years. Many organizations will be looking to make up the difference on GivingTuesday, which is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Safety officials release details of their investigation …

Musk uses expletive to tell audience he doesn’t care about …

FILE - Elon Musk, who owns X, formerly known as Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, speaks at the Vivatech fair, June 16, 2023, in Paris. Musk said Wednesday, Nov. 29, that advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material are engaging in “blackmail” and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Indiana judge dismisses state’s lawsuit against TikTok …

NASCAR to include streaming in new 7-year media rights …

Ryan Blaney, center right, receives the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Cup from NASCAR president Steve Phelps, center left, after winning it at Phoenix Raceway, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

Stock market today: Wall Street drifts to a mixed close, …

A man passes the "Fearless Girl" statue in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Friday, November 3, 2023. Shares opened lower in Europe after a mixed day in Asia on Tuesday as investors waited for updates on inflation and how American consumers are feeling about the economy. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

UAW will try to organize workers at all US nonunion factories …

FILE - United Auto Workers members walk in the Labor Day parade, Sept. 2, 2019, in Detroit. The United Auto Workers union announced plans Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, to try to simultaneously organize workers at more than a dozen nonunion auto factories. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

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Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually …

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge waits to speak at a microphone in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Ottawa, Ontario. Canada's government said Wednesday it reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million (US $74 million) annually to the country's news industry to comply with a new Canadian law requiring tech companies to pay publishers for their conten (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says Haslams offered …

FILE - In this March 27, 2013, file photo, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam answers a question during a news conference after speaking to a joint session of the Legislature in Nashville, Tenn. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says the billionaire Haslam family tried to bribe at least 15 executives at the Pilot truck stop chain with millions of dollars to inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Humanoid robots are here, but they’re a little awkward. …

Joel Carrasco performs maintenance on humanoid robot Figure 01 at Figure AI's test facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Figure plans to start with a relatively simple use case, such as in a retail warehouse, but aims for a commercial robot that can be "iterated on like an iPhone" to perform multiple tasks to take up the work of humans as birth rates decline around the world. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

GM says it can handle rising labor costs as it announces …

FILE - United Auto Workers members join the picket line, in Detroit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. General Motors says pretax earnings took a $1.1 billion hit this year from a six-week strike by autoworkers, but the company expects to absorb the costs of a new contract and is even raising its dividend. The Detroit automaker on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 reinstated its full-year earnings forecast that was withdrawn after the United Auto Workers began targeting the factories of Detroit automakers with strikes on Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Blackstone acquires pet care app Rover in $2.3 billion …

FILE - A sign for The Blackstone Group L.P. investment firm stands in front of their offices, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in New York. Private equity giant Blackstone will acquire the pet care app Rover in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3 billion, the companies announced Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Sri Lanka says it struck a deal with creditors on …

FILE - A man fills gas into a vehicle at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 29, 2023. Sri Lanka said Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023 that it has reached an agreement in principle with a group of creditors including India and Japan on debt restructuring, a crucial move toward unlocking a second installment of a $2.9 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

US economic growth for last quarter is revised up …

Workmen dig on a street in Waukegan, Ill., Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department issues its second of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the third quarter of 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)