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In this July 8, 2019, photo, Subaru cars for export park at Kawasaki port, near Tokyo. Japan has recorded a trade surplus in October, the first surplus in four months, as exports to the U.S. fell and oil prices slipped, according to a report on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan records trade surplus as exports, imports fall

Japan records trade surplus as exports, imports fall
In this July 8, 2019, photo, Subaru cars for export park at Kawasaki port, near Tokyo. Japan has recorded a trade surplus in October, the first surplus in four months, as exports to the U.S. fell and oil prices slipped, according to a report on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
AMA calls for total ban on all e-cigarette, vaping products
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, file photo, a man using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, the American Medical Association said it is calling for an immediate ban on all electronic cigarette and vaping devices. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
Amazon says it's considered face scanning in Ring doorbells
FILE - In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera at his home in Wolcott, Conn. Amazon says it has considered adding facial recognition technology to its Ring doorbell cameras. The company said in a letter released Tuesday, Nov. 19 by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey that facial recognition is a “contemplated, but unreleased feature” of its home security cameras. The Massachusetts Democrat wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in September raising privacy and civil liberty concerns about Ring’s video-sharing partnerships with hundreds of police departments around the country. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Former Soviet submarine docked in California to be sold
Scorpion, a former Soviet submarine that became a Los Angeles-area tourist attraction and is expected to be sold, is docked next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. (Brittany Murray/The Orange County Register via AP)
US Latinas need twice the time to match white male's income
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FILE - In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera at his home in Wolcott, Conn. Amazon says it has considered adding facial recognition technology to its Ring doorbell cameras. The company said in a letter released Tuesday, Nov. 19 by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey that facial recognition is a “contemplated, but unreleased feature” of its home security cameras. The Massachusetts Democrat wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in September raising privacy and civil liberty concerns about Ring’s video-sharing partnerships with hundreds of police departments around the country. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Amazon says it's considered face scanning in Ring doorbells
FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2017, file photo, an unidentified man is silhouetted as he walks in front of Microsoft logo at an event in New Delhi, India. Microsoft is in a fierce popularity contest with upstart work messaging service Slack. Microsoft announced Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, that its own workplace collaboration service Teams now has more than 20 million daily active users. That’s 8 million more than what Slack boasted of having last month. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
Microsoft competes for popularity with upstart Slack
FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2017, file photo, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine speaks at One Judiciary Square in Washington. Racine is suing DoorDash, saying the food delivery service pocketed tips that customers thought were going to delivery workers. Racine said Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, that DoorDash misled consumers who believed their tips would go to workers, not the company’s bottom line. He is hoping to recover millions of dollars in tip money and to impose civil penalties on the company. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
DC attorney general sues DoorDash for pocketing tips
FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 file photo, a Disney logo forms part of a menu for the Disney Plus movie and entertainment streaming service on a computer screen in Walpole, Mass. Disney Plus says it doesn’t have a security breach, but some users of the new streaming service have been shut out after hackers tried to break into their accounts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Disney Plus user accounts already found on hacking sites
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Safety agency says distracted driver caused fatal Uber crash
FILE- This file image made from video March 18, 2018, of a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an exterior view moments before an Uber SUV hit a woman in Tempe, Ariz. The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says Uber had an ineffective safety culture when one of its autonomous test vehicles ran down and killed a pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona. Robert Sumwalt said at a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, on the March 2018 crash that Uber didn’t continually monitor its operations and it had de-activated its Volvo SUV’s automatic emergency braking system. Uber’s own system also didn’t have the ability to brake automatically, relying on a human backup driver to do the braking. (Tempe Police Department via AP, File)
Safety board favors redesign of engine part on Boeing 737s
FILE- In this Jan. 25, 2019, file photo a Southwest Airlines jet moves on the runway as a person eats at a terminal restaurant at LaGuardia Airport in New York. The National Transportation Safety Board is meeting Tuesday, Nov. 19 in Washington to consider the cause of a deadly engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight last year. The incident killed a passenger who was blown partly out of the plane when a piece of the engine shattered the window next to her. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
No clear champ as Johnson, Corbyn spar in UK election debate
In this photo issued by ITV, showing Boris Johnson, left, and Jeremy Corbyn, right, with TV debate adjudicator Julie Etchingham, following their election head-to-head debate live on TV, in Salford, Manchester, England, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are set to go head-to-head in their first live televised debate Tuesday evening, as the UK prepares for a General Election on Dec. 12. (ITV via AP)
Microsoft competes for popularity with upstart Slack
FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2017, file photo, an unidentified man is silhouetted as he walks in front of Microsoft logo at an event in New Delhi, India. Microsoft is in a fierce popularity contest with upstart work messaging service Slack. Microsoft announced Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, that its own workplace collaboration service Teams now has more than 20 million daily active users. That’s 8 million more than what Slack boasted of having last month. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

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This undated photo provided by Audi shows the 2019 Audi Q7, a midsize three-row luxury SUV. The Q7 boasts impressive technology and safety features plus a quiet and user-friendly interior. (Jim Fets/Audi AG via AP)
Edmunds compares the 2019 Audi Q7 and 2020 Lincoln Aviator
In this undated photo Ford Motor Company Ted Cannis, Ford’s global electric vehicle chief, poses for a photo. Cannis spoke recently with The Associated Press about why the automaker is dedicating so many resources to electric vehicles. (Charlotte Bodak/Ford Motor Company via AP)
Ford electric vehicle chief sees more products, sales growth
FILE - In this May 5, 2019, file photo Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, gestures during a game of bridge following the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb. Three-quarters of the way through 2019, Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway is trailing the renowned investor’s favorite benchmark, the S&P 500, as it’s done over the past decade. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
As Buffett seeks big acquisition, Berkshire trails S&P
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2019, file photo an electronic card with ballot information is seen inserted in a voting machine in Dallas, Ga. While the 2020 presidential election is still a year away, some business owners see their customers already becoming more cautious because of the unknowns about who will be the next president, and which party will control the Senate. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
Unknowns about 2020 election make some businesses cautious
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GateHouse, Gannett join, become largest US newspaper chain
FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, sections of a USA Today newspaper rest together in Norwood, Mass. GateHouse Media has closed on its takeover of Gannett, bringing about 260 daily papers together to become the country’s largest newspaper company by far. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Court: Company must pay for toxic waste on Idaho tribal land
FILE - In this March 8, 2005, file photo the former FMC Corp. site, which closed in 2001, is shown in Pocatello, Idaho. A federal appeals court on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 that a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based agribusiness company that left millions of tons of toxic waste on tribal land in eastern Idaho must pay the tribes nearly $20 million plus $1.5 million annually. (Doug Lindley/The Idaho State Journal via AP, File)
Federal Reserve, FDIC approve merger of BB&T, SunTrust banks
Michigan issues 1st recreational marijuana licenses
US stock indexes edge mostly lower as retailers sink
In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, photo, the American flag flies above the Wall Street entrance to the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. U.S. stocks wobbled between small gains and losses Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, as investors paused following another record-setting day. The major indexes have been steadily rising and setting records for weeks as a mix of solid economic data and corporate earnings inject confidence into the market. Worries about a potential recession have faded and investors are now closely watching for any developments in trade talks between the U.S. and China. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Congress wants review of Keystone pipeline in wake of spill
FILE - This Oct. 30, 2019 file photo provided by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality shows affected land from a Keystone oil pipeline leak near Edinburg, North Dakota. The crude oil spill from has turned out to have affected almost 10 times the amount of land as first reported, a state regulator said Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. (North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality/Taylor DeVries via AP, File)
Markets Right Now: US stocks struggle to a mixed finish
Loughlin, Giannulli fighting new charges in admissions case
FILE - In this April 3, 2019, file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, leave federal court in Boston after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. The couple are fighting expanded charges against them in the college admissions bribery scandal. Their lawyers have entered not guilty pleas on their behalf Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, to charges of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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