Samsung’s new foldable phone: Cheaper, but still a novelty
SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung on Tuesday unveiled a new foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip, its second attempt to sell consumers on phones with bendable scre...
Celebrating the off-kilter at Proenza Schouler
NEW YORK — Watching the first models emerge at the Proenza Schouler runway show, you could have been forgiven for thinking everyone simply forgot to p...
Price worries remain after judge OKs T-Mobile’s Sprint deal
NEW YORK — A federal judge has cleared a major path for T-Mobile to buy Sprint for $26.5 billion, citing T-Mobile's track record in promoting competit...
Bloomberg embraces stop and frisk in resurfaced 2015 audio
WASHINGTON — Michael Bloomberg is under fire for resurfaced comments in which the Democratic presidential candidate says the way to bring down murder ...
Push to scale back US environmental law draws ire at hearing
DENVER — The Trump administration on Tuesday hosted the first of two hearings on its proposal to speed energy and other projects by rolling back a lan...
NTSB releases details in 2 crashes involving Tesla Autopilot
DETROIT — An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X slammed into a concrete barrier had previously complained about the SUV malfunctioning on ...
Philippines notifies US of intent to end major security pact
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines notified the United States on Tuesday it would end a major security pact allowing American forces to train in th...
US to seek more help from NATO to counter Islamic State
BRUSSELS, Belgium — US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist gro...
Tenet Healthcare to pay $1.4M to settle cardiac lawsuit
LOS ANGELES — Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its Southern California hospital Desert Regional Medical Center will pay $1.41 million to resolve alleg...
Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort
NEW YORK — As debate rages around “American Dirt,” the bestselling novel criticized for its portrait of Mexican life and culture, publishers are pledg...
NCAA’s Emmert presses Senate for ‘guardrails’ on athlete pay
WASHINGTON — NCAA President Mark Emmert urged Congress to step in and put restrictions on college athletes' ability to earn money from endorsements, t...
WHO chief ‘very encouraged’ by dip in Congo Ebola cases
DAKAR, Senegal — The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that experts are "very encouraged” after only three new cases of Ebola have be...
Official: Sudan to hand over al-Bashir for genocide trial
CAIRO — Sudan's transitional authorities have agreed to hand over ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial on ...
Virus fears play out ahead of shrinking global tech event
LONDON — The impact on travel and commerce from the viral outbreak in China is playing out ahead of one of the world's biggest technology fairs schedu...
Rains flood roads, swell rivers across the Deep South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Deep South on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a ...
Universal will release controversial ‘Hunt’ film in March
LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures said Tuesday that it will release the social satire “The Hunt,” a film it canceled in the wake of criticism about its...
Many winter residential evictions banned in pricey Seattle
SEATTLE — Many residential evictions in pricey Seattle have been banned for the city's coldest and wettest months of December, January and February bu...
China’s virus crisis hits global flows of letters, parcels
PARIS — Postal operators in the United States, China and elsewhere say the suspension of flights to slow the spread of a deadly new virus is having a ...
Spanish government renews efforts to legalize euthanasia
LISBON, Portugal — Spain’s new Socialist-led government has launched another attempt to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.
European Central Bank chief urges governments to help growth
FRANKFURT, Germany — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is urging governments to get more involved in supporting the tepid eurozone eco...
UK’s Johnson backs high speed railway despite opposition
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative government on Tuesday approved an overdue, over-budget plan for a high-speed rail line linking London with central and...
Rohingya boat capsizes in Bay of Bengal; at least 15 dead
DHAKA, Bangladesh — An overcrowded boat carrying about 138 Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps sank Tuesday in the Bay of Bengal, leaving at leas...
Virus cases in Hong Kong apartments recall SARS memories
HONG KONG — The diagnosis of four people living in a single Hong Kong apartment block who were sickened by a new virus is prompting worried comparison...
Thanks to plant breeders, camellia moves farther north
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Remind me not to plant camellias.
Ferocious storm in Europe kills 8, causes travel disruptions
BERLIN — Ferocious winds, with gusts over 200 kph (125 mph), lashed Corsica and whipped up a forest fire that flared overnight on the French Mediterra...
China still mostly closed down as virus deaths pass 1,000
BEIJING — China remains mostly closed for business, as the daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the total above 1,...
UN meeting ponders fast-track drugs, vaccines for new virus
GENEVA — The World Health Organization convened outside experts Tuesday to fast-track promising tests, drugs and vaccines to help slow the outbreak of...
EU official rejects Johnson’s idea of loose UK trade deal
BRUSSELS — The European Union will only offer Britain unique access to its vast single market if the U.K. agrees to stick to the bloc's standards, Eur...
Amid uncertainty, French wine industry puts itself on show
PARIS — France's big wine industry, shaken by U.S. President Trump’s painful tariff hikes and the threat of climate change, is hoping to re-energize g...
UK man linked to virus spread thanks doctors for recovery
LONDON — A businessman from England who contracted the new virus from China and may have spread it through his wide travels thanked Britain's National...