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Mr. Clean, the strapping bald man in a tight white T-shirt, is retiring after 68 years of helping consumers clean various household surfaces.

Applebee's is permanently shuttering several locations across the United States, underscoring continued pressures facing the casual dining industry as operators contend with higher costs and shifting consumer behavior.

Canada announced Wednesday it is sending $8 million Canadian (US$6.7 million) in food aid to people in Cuba as the island faces an escalating fuel crisis as oil shipments have slowed following U.S. threats of tariffs.

As he watched the Boston Celtics play from the stands of TD Garden, one noise kept catching Adel Djellouli's ear.

China warned the U.S. on Wednesday not to impose new tariffs on its goods as President Trump removes tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court and replaces them with duties that use other legal authorities.

President Trump announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that he will give Americans who do not have employer-sponsored retirement plans access to government-run plans and match up to $1,000 in annual contributions.

President Trump said Tuesday in his State of the Union speech that the U.S. has received more than 80 million barrels of oil from Venezuela, a significant uptick from the first few weeks after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

The U.S. State Department has expressed its displeasure about Ukraine's recent attacks on the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea that have impacted U.S. oil interests in Kazakhstan, Kyiv's chief envoy to Washington said on Tuesday.

In President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, he is expected to announce a negotiation with Big Tech for the firms to bear more responsibility for the energy cost burden in areas where new data centers are built.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic's CEO a Friday deadline to open the company's artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting.