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FILE - Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Solid US hiring lowers unemployment rate in latest sign …

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)

FDA approves 2 gene therapies for sickle cell. One is …

Jalen Matthews sits on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the disease led to a spinal cord stroke that left her with some paralysis in her left arm and leg. “I had to learn how to walk again, feed myself, clothe myself, basically learn how to do everything all over again,” said Matthews, who is now 26. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

In a reversal, Starbucks proposes restarting union talks …

File - Advocates for a union for Starbucks employees watch as company founder Howard Schultz leaves a hearing after testifying to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee at the Capitol in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks says it’s committed to bargaining with unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next year. The move Friday is major reversal for the coffee chain after two years fighting the unionization of its U.S. stores. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

With no supermarket for residents of Atlantic City, New …

April Schetler, who runs a new program to bring nutritious food and produce to low-income neighborhoods in Atlantic City, N.J. speaks outside a specially modified bus that serves as a mobile supermarket in Atlantic City N.J. on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. Virtua Health and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority are operating a service to bring fresh groceries and produce to Atlantic City, where plans for what would be the city's first supermarket in nearly 20 years recently fell through. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Unionized DHL Express workers strike at critical Cincinnati …

Teamsters protest at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport near the DHL Express Hub Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Erlanger ,Ky. More than 1,000 union members at DHL walked off the job at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, a critical logistics hub for the package delivery company, during the busiest time of the year. The Teamsters say they are protesting unfair labor practices at the DHL Express hub. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott reveals the groups that …

FILE - Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scott publicized some $2.1 billion that she's made in charitable donations since November 2022, in a post Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, on her website Yield Giving.(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Chris Wan, associate director of sustainability at Masdar City speaks in the visitor center near Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as Dubai hosts the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

2023 in books: Protests, bannings and the rise of …

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Germany’s train drivers stage a 24-hour strike as …

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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)

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 …

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)