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Here’s the single phrase to watch for from the Fed this week

WASHINGTON — Economists and investors who are trying to get a fix on what the Federal Reserve may do in the months ahead have zeroed in on a single ph...
15:24 29 October 2021

Coal giant Murray Energy seeks bankruptcy protection

A major U.S. coal mining company is seeking bankruptcy protection.
14:21 29 October 2021

Going somewhere? Some places offer trips to the unknown

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When Dena Espenscheid answered an advertisement on social media offering a weekend vacation to an unknown destination, her sister ...
14:04 29 October 2021

Beverage companies aim to get bottles recycled, not trashed

Every year, an estimated 100 billion plastic bottles are produced in the U.S., the bulk of which come from three of America's biggest beverage compani...
13:07 29 October 2021

GM 3Q profit falls 7% as auto workers strike cuts production

DETROIT — Only two weeks of a lengthy strike against General Motors happened in the third quarter, but that was enough to dent the company's net profi...
12:17 29 October 2021

Steelers overcome slow start, drop winless Dolphins 27-14

PITTSBURGH — Mason Rudolph heard the boos. They were impossible to miss as the minutes passed, the mistakes piled up and the Pittsburgh Steelers found...
5:00 29 October 2021

North Carolina judges block current congressional map

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina judges on Monday blocked the state's congressional map from being used in the 2020 elections, ruling that voters had a ...
3:27 29 October 2021

US experiments in Texas with plan to speed asylum decisions

EL PASO, Texas — U.S. immigration authorities are testing a program to speed up reviews of asylum claims at a Texas Border Patrol station, offering a ...
2:31 29 October 2021

Robert Evans, iconic producer of ‘Chinatown,’ dies at 89

NEW YORK — Robert Evans, the protean, fast-living Hollywood producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief who backed such seminal 1970s film...
2:15 29 October 2021

AP sources: Jeff Sessions exploring possible Ala. Senate run

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is exploring the possibility of a run for his old Senate seat in Alabama, according to t...
2:07 29 October 2021

Costs of GM deal could make talks with Ford, FCA difficult

DETROIT — Just after workers ratified a new contract with General Motors last week, the president of the United Auto Workers union put out a statement...
1:49 29 October 2021

Bronx steps in ‘Joker’ movie become a tourist attraction

NEW YORK — Move over, Rocky, there's a new stairway to climb.
22:20 28 October 2021

In Chicago, Trump calls the city an embarrassment to the US

CHICAGO — Visiting Chicago for the first time as president, Donald Trump disparaged the city Monday as a haven for criminals that is "embarrassing to ...
21:48 28 October 2021

Stocks set another record. The champagne’s still corked.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are back at a record. Don't feel excited? Neither does Wall Street.
21:30 28 October 2021

US official: IS leader believed dead in US military assault

WASHINGTON — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world's mo...
6:10 27 October 2021

Separatists clash with police in Barcelona after huge rally

BARCELONA, Spain — Police and violent protesters in Spain's restive Catalonia region clashed Saturday after a massive rally in Barcelona against the i...
22:03 26 October 2021

New evacuations, power outages near California wildfire

SAN FRANCISCO — New evacuations were ordered Saturday for at least 50,000 people near a huge wildfire and millions of Californians will have their pow...
18:41 26 October 2021

‘I’m dying’: Relatives await answers in smuggling case

DO THANH, Vietnam — One family received a final text from their daughter saying she couldn't breathe and was dying. Another grieving family set up a m...
16:34 26 October 2021

Russian agent Butina returns to Moscow, wants no part of US

MOSCOW — The Russian woman convicted in the United States of being a Russian agent returned to Moscow on Saturday and declared that she has no desire ...
15:24 26 October 2021

‘It’s a fine target’: Census bureau to fight misinformation

CHICAGO — Worried about internet trolls and foreign powers spreading false news, census officials are preparing to battle misinformation campaigns for...
13:53 26 October 2021

House Democrats get a legal victory in impeachment inquiry

WASHINGTON — A judge has ordered the Justice Department to give the House secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia inv...
5:40 26 October 2021

Native Hawaiian heiress faces court test to control millions

HONOLULU — A 93-year-old heiress doesn't need a guardian to take care of her, but a hearing will be held to determine whether she needs a conservator ...
2:52 26 October 2021

Pentagon hands Microsoft $10B ‘war cloud’ deal, snubs Amazon

SAN FRANCISCO — The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract , snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose competitive bid drew...
1:05 26 October 2021

US deficit hits nearly $1 trillion. When will it matter?

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration reported a river of red ink Friday.
23:07 25 October 2021

Trump’s company exploring sale of landmark Washington hotel

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's company said Friday it is exploring the sale of its landmark Washington hotel after nearly three years of ethics...
23:05 25 October 2021

Protests rattle the postwar order in Lebanon and Iraq

BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands of people, many of them young and unemployed men, thronged public squares and blocked main streets Friday in the capitals ...
22:44 25 October 2021

Huffman released with 2 days left on 2-week prison term

SAN FRANCISCO — Actress Felicity Huffman was released Friday morning from a federal prison in California two days before the end of a two-week sentenc...
20:30 25 October 2021

The Latest: UK police arrest 4th person in truck deaths case

LONDON — The Latest on the case of 39 people found dead in a truck in England (all times local):
17:15 25 October 2021

DeVos held in contempt of court in loan forgiveness dispute

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court for violating an order to stop collecting loans from thousa...
15:47 25 October 2021

‘Brazen, naked corruption’ gets SC sheriff 1 year in prison

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina sheriff found guilty of misconduct for using his power and office to push a personal assistant to have sex with him ...
15:37 25 October 2021