Walmart names its 25 hottest toys for holidays: Get in line now and other top stories.

• Walmart names its 25 hottest toys for holidays: Get in line now

  

  Toy department manager Gayla Harris stocks shelves for Black Friday sales at a Walmart in Oklahoma City in 2013.(Photo: 2013 photo by Sue Ogrocki, AP)A racing play set, a Disney princess carriage and a drone are among Walmart’s top toy picks for the upcoming holiday shopping season.The world’s largest retailer, relying on the recommendations of hundreds of pint-sized experts — children ranging from 1½ to 12 years old — came up with the 25 most appealing games and gizmos. They could be destined t..

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• AP Reporter Returns to Cuba on 1st Commercial Flight From US

  

  SANTA CLARA, Cuba — It took an hour and a $330 paper check to buy the printed blue ticket for my one-way charter flight from Havana to Miami, the last I will ever take.Check-in meant nearly two hours in a line that almost spilled out the terminal doors. I barely made it aboard my 45-minute flight Sunday.I came back home to Cuba in seat 4B Wednesday on the first commercial flight from the U.S. in more than half a century. The electronic ticket cost $98.90 and took less than three minutes to buy..

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• Australia sues Volkswagen over emissions claims

  

  MELBOURNE, Australia--Australia's consumer watchdog is suing Volkswagen AG for misleading consumers and allegedly concealing software in tens of thousands of vehicles to cheat emissions testing. In a statement Thursday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it had begun proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against the German car maker and its Australian subsidiary. It accused the company of engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct, making false or misleading repres..

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• Survey: US companies add a solid 177000 jobs in August

  

  FILE - In this Wednesday, May 11, 2016, file photo, buttermilk Bakeshop owner Katie Rosenhouse carries a wholesale order to a customer at her bakery, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, payroll processor ADP reports how many jobs private employers added in August. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) syndication.ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. businesses added a solid 177,000 jobs in August, according to a private survey, suggesting that hiring ..

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• Asia Manufacturing Shifts Into Gear

  

  Could Asia’s manufacturing sector finally be catching a break? Economic gauges for August from around the region released Thursday appeared to suggest so. Purchasing managers’ indexes for Asia-Pacific and South Korean trade data showed signs of improvement for the first time in several years. China’s official manufacturing PMI beat market...

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• Elon Musk Faces Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity

  

  Updated Aug. 31, 2016 8:04 p.m. ET Two pillars of Elon Musk’s empire are facing financial crunches as the entrepreneur seeks to combine the two companies through a controversial acquisition. Tesla Motors Inc., TSLA 0.32 % which makes electric cars, disclosed in a securities filing Wednesday that it has to pay $422 million to its bondholders in the third quarter, and that it will raise additional money by the end of the year. The purpose of the additional capital, among ..

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• Hanjin Shipping's collapse upsets global trade

  

  "This will have an impact on the entire industry," the official said. South Korea's maritime ministry said on Wednesday that Hanjin's woes would affect cargo exports for two or three months, with about 540,000 TEU of cargo already loaded on Hanjin vessels and facing delays. It would be difficult to find alternative ships given high seasonal demand from August to October. The ministry said it would ask local rival Hyundai Merchant Marine to supply vessels to cover some of Hanjin's rout..

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• Mike Andres to retire as president of McDonald's USA

  

  Mike Andres, president of McDonald’s Corp.’s U.S. division and a key figure at the forefront of the chain’s domestic turnaround over the past 18 months, is retiring at the end of the year, the company said on Wednesday. Chris Kempczinski, currently the executive vice president of strategy, business development and innovation, has been picked to succeed Andres as president of McDonald’s USA. The change will be effective Jan. 1. “Mike has..

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• Former Air China Manager Charged With Smuggling in US for Chinese Military

  

  Prosecutors charged a former Air China Ltd. manager Wednesday with smuggling packages out of the U.S. to China on behalf of Chinese military officials stationed at the country’s New York-based mission to the United Nations, the latest turn in a case linked to an alleged U.N. bribery scheme. Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Ying Lin, a former Newark Liberty International Airport station manager for Air China, with five criminal...

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• This graphic shows how out-of-control San Francisco housing prices have gotten

  

  Shutterstock / prochasson frederic If you're at all attuned to America's real estate market, you've heard about San Francisco's ongoing housing crisis. Residents have been doing crazy things to survive the sky-high cost of living, from camping out in Google's parking lot to taking up residence on a sailboat.  But according to a recent report by online real-estate broker Trulia, the story is slightly different for San Francisco's longtime homeowners, who..

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