SANDGATE, Vermont (AP) — Maple syrup was once a side venture that helped farmers pay their taxes. But these days, it's becoming big business in the Northeast, with corporations buying up thousands of acres of trees as they bank in part on a rise in de...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor is settling U.S. charges that it deceived customers when it paid for an online article and Instagram posts to promote a new clothing line without disclosing that the posts were advertisements. The Federal Trade Commission...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Institutional investors are suing automaker Volkswagen in a German court, seeking 3.25 billion euros ($3.57 billion) in damages over the company's diesel emissions scandal. Attorney Andreas Tilp said Tuesday in a statement th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers stepped up hiring in 30 states in January, led by big gains in Florida, Texas and North Carolina. Meanwhile, 20 states shed jobs. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate dropped in 28 states, rose in 8 and was uncha...

NEW YORK (AP) — A fight for control of the Starwood hotel chain is under way after a $14 billion buyout offer from a consortium led by China's Anbang Insurance Group. Marriott International Inc. has already bid for Starwood, owner of Sheraton and St. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he will shut down a visa program that brings 300,000 foreign students to work in the U.S. each year if he's elected president. But Trump's own businesses have hired the same foreign workers. Trump says the visa, kno...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tarla Makaeff has fought Donald Trump in court for six years. Now, as the Republican presidential front-runner and his lawyers try to portray the Southern California yoga instructor as the face of a federal class-action lawsuit against...

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Negotiations between New Jersey Transit and its rail workers unions are heading into the final days before a weekend strike deadline approaches. The two sides met for several hours Thursday at a Hilton hotel in downtown Newar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid fell last week to the lowest level since October, evidence that employers are confident enough in the economy to hold onto their staffs. The Labor Department says weekly jobless bene...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian arm of global consumer giant Unilever says it has reached a settlement with hundreds of former employees 15 years after its thermometer plant in southern India was shut following accusations of mercury contamination. Hindus...