FTC launches inquiry into how big tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google are holding sway over AI startups

SANTA FE, N.M. — An effort to modernize state oversight of a thriving petroleum industry in the nation’s No. 2 state for oil production advanced past its first committee vetting Thursday at the New Mexico Legislature. The bill would rewrite portions of the state’s 1930s-era Oil and Gas Act in order to help regulators keep…

A Panera Bread restaurant put its “Charged Lemonade” out of the reach of customers after the super-caffeinated drink was blamed for causing a fatal heart attack. An employee of a Panera Bread franchise in Manhattan told The Post that the once-refillable drink was moved behind the counter last October after the family of a 21-year-old…

An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve shows price pressures continue to cool

There’s a shift underway in Asia that’s reverberating through global financial markets. Japan’s stock market, overlooked by investors for decades, is making a furious comeback. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index is edging closer to the record it set on Dec. 29, 1989, which effectively marked the peak of Japan’s economic ascendancy before a collapse that…

Tensions within CNN over coverage of former President Donald J. Trump burst into the open on Thursday during an internal call with the network’s journalists, as an executive candidly questioned the approach of the channel’s new chief executive, Mark Thompson. CNN aired roughly 10 minutes of Mr. Trump’s victory speech after he won the Iowa…

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes. But two tourist guides in the southern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, say two other sites that the government claims are still…