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Stock market today: Most of Wall Street slips following …

FILE - A street sign is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Wall Street headed lower early Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, after Moody’s Investor Service downgraded China’s sovereign debt rating as the country’s real estate crisis seeps into its local government and private financing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Frontier Airlines settles lawsuit filed by pilots who …

FILE - A Frontier Airlines jetliner waits on a runway for departure from Denver International Airport, Sept. 1, 2023, in Denver. Frontier Airlines has settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of pilots who said the airline discriminated against pregnant and breastfeeding employees. In the settlement announced Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023 Frontier will let pilots pump breast milk in the cockpit during “noncritical phases” of flights. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)

US officials want ships to anchor farther from California …

FILE - An aerial file photo shows floating barriers known as booms set up to try to stop further incursion into the Wetlands Talbert Marsh after an oil spill, Oct. 4, 2021, in Huntington Beach, Calif. Federal regulators on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, concluded the 2021 rupture of an undersea oil pipeline off the Southern California coast was likely caused by the proximity of anchored shipping vessels. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

A trial deciding if JetBlue can buy Spirit — and further …

FILE - A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320, left, passes a Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 as it taxis on the runway, July 7, 2022, at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Lawyers for the Justice Department and JetBlue Airways are scheduled to make closing arguments Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, to wrap up a trial that will decide whether JetBlue can buy Spirit Airlines, the nation’s biggest low-fare carrier. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Open Society Foundations commit $50M to women and youth …

FILE - George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations, looks before the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, Friday, June 21, 2019. The major philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, has committed $50 million to increase civic engagement among women and youth over the next three years as part of its strategy to support democracy in the U.S. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

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US job openings fall to lowest level since March 2021 …

File - An employee works inside the Hanwha Qcells Solar plant on Oct. 16, 2023, in Dalton, Ga. On Tuesday, the Labor Department reports on job openings and labor turnover for October. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

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Deep-sea mining in the Arctic Ocean gets the green …

From left: Terje Halleland (Progress Party), Aleksander Oren Heen (Center Party), Marianne Sivertsen Naess (Labour Party) and Bard Ludvig Thorheim (Conservative Party) give a joint press conference on the deal on extraction of seabed minerals made between the governing party and two large opposition parties, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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In the salt deserts bordering Pakistan, India builds …

Workers sit on a tractor trailer as they make their way to work at the construction site of Adani Green Energy Limited's Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. India is developing a 30 gigawatt hybrid — wind and solar — renewable energy project on one of the largest salt deserts in the world. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Stock market today: Asian shares slip ahead of key …

People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Tokyo. Asian shares declined in cautious trading Tuesday ahead of some key reports this week on the U.S. job market that might provide insight into the Federal Reserve’s thinking about interest rates. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

GM’s Cruise robotaxi service faces fine in alleged …

FILE - Associated Press reporter Michael Liedtke sits in the back of a Cruise driverless taxi that picked him up in San Francisco's Mission District, Feb. 15, 2023. The California regulator that approved the expansion of the Cruise robotaxi fleet owned by automaker General Motors is now threatening to fine the driverless service for covering up the severity of an accident that triggered the suspension of its California license. The potential penalty could be in the range of $1.5 million, based on documents filed Friday, Dec. 1, by the California Public Utilities Commission. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

Alaska Airlines is buying Hawaiian Airlines. Will …

This combination of photos shows a Hawaiian Airlines plane at Kahalui, Hawaii, March 24, 2005, left, and Alaska Airlines planes March 1, 2021, in Seattle. Alaska Airlines announced Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, that it will buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 billion. That's raising questions about how antitrust regulators will view the deal, and whether past airline mergers have hurt consumers. (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni, Ted S. Warren)

US agency to watch unrecalled Takata inflators after …

FILE - TK Holdings Inc. headquarters is seen, June 25, 2017, in Auburn Hills, Mich. On Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, U.S. auto safety regulators said they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)