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Nintendo cancels its Live 2024 Tokyo event after …

FILE - A traveler walks past an advertisement featuring a Nintendo character at Narita airport in Narita near Tokyo on June 10, 2022. Nintendo has cancelled an upcoming video game event in Japan, and postponed several others, because of persistent threats to the company, its workers and people who may take part in them. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

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German rail workers begin 24-hour strike as pay talks …

Trains are parked outside the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, when train drivers of the GDL union went on a 24-hour-strike. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Biden heads to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2B for 10 major …

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 30, 2023, in Washington. Biden is heading to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country. The money includes funding to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Stock market today: World shares rise ahead of a key US …

A person looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Tokyo. Asian shares were mixed Friday after Wall Street snapped its first three-day losing streak since Halloween, ahead of Friday’s jobs report. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Is the US economy on track for a ‘soft landing’? Friday’s …

File - Social worker Lupita Armijo-Garcia works at her desk in the Ottawa County, Mich., Department of Public Health office, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in Holland, Mich. On Friday, the U.S. government issues its November jobs report. (AP Photo/Kristen Norman, File)

Stock market today: Wall Street rises ahead of Friday’s …

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Investment banks to put $10 billion into projects aimed …

Heads of state from left to right: Argentina's outgoing President Alberto Fernandez, Paraguay's President Santiago Pena, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou and Bolivia's President Luis Arce, pose for a group photo at the 63rd Mercosur Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh to step down in January, handing …

FILE - A Levi's banner adorns the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, March 21, 2019. Levi Strauss & Co said Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, that its CEO will step down in January 2024 and hand over the reins of the jeans maker to his appointed successor. Chip Bergh will cede the CEO job to Michelle Gass, who left her CEO role at Kohl’s to become president of Levi’s in January of this year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

UAW says over 1,000 workers at VW plant in Tennessee …

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2017, file photo, workers produce vehicles at Volkswagen's U.S. plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. More than 1,000 workers at the Tennessee factory have signed cards authorizing a vote to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. It's the first plant in the nation to reach that milestone in the UAW’s quest to organize more than a dozen nonunion factories. The union says in a statement Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 that the workers signed on in less than a week. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

The White House is threatening the patents of high-priced …

FILE - President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive for an event on prescription drug costs, in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 29, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice. It's warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, they might allow other companies to make their product. Under the new plan, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs that have been developed with the help of taxpayer money. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Retail group pulls back on claim organized retail …

File - A security guard, right, stands at the entrance to a Nordstrom department store in Los Angeles, Dec. 2, 2021, where a smash-and-grab robbery took place. The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, has revised a report released in April that pulls back the claim that organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of overall industry shrink, which measures overall loss in inventory, including theft. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Meta makes end-to-end encryption a default on Facebook …

Gates Foundation takes on poverty in the U.S. with …

Laura McAloon, Grand Island City Administrator, poses for a photo on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Grand Island, Nebraska. McAloon observed that many workers and students were walking or biking long distances to their jobs or schools. So when she learned of an opportunity to study the development of a bus system to meet those transportation needs, she jumped at it. The opportunity was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, that it will donate $100 million over four years to expand its work on economic mobility in the U.S., which will include helping people without college degrees find jobs and connecting people with government benefits for which they are eligible. (AP Photo/John Peterson)

Europe’s talks on world-leading AI rules paused after …