Wall Street capped a miserable year on a positive note Monday, but the stock market still closed out 2018 with its worst showing in a decade. After setting a series of records through the late summer and early fall, major U.S....
Read MoreHONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a fire on a Panamanian car carrier in the Pacific Ocean and says some crew members abandoned the ship. The Coast Guard in a statement Monday says crewmembers launched a life...
Read MoreWall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It didn’t end that way. U.S. stocks climbed to new highs in January, shook off a sudden, steep drop by spring and rode a wave of tax...
Read MorePARIS (AP) — Paris is holding its annual New Year’s Eve celebration on the Champs-Elysees under heavy security as protesters from an anti-government movement planned to gather Monday night on the famed avenue where a...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — US stocks suffer worst year since 2008 financial crisis; S&P 500 sees 6.2 percent annual drop, Dow falls 5.6 percent.
Read MoreFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The first European American who reached the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon marveled at what was before him: an astounding system of canyons, profound fissures and slender spires that seemingly...
Read MoreSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a California utility’s role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal conviction in a deadly gas pipeline explosion. In...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. government shutdown (all times local): 11 a.m. President Donald Trump says he’s waiting in the Oval Office for Democrats to return to Washington and negotiate an end to a partial...
Read MoreU.S. stocks climbed in early trading Monday as hopes grew for progress in resolving trade frictions between the U.S. and China. Technology companies, health care stocks and retailers drove much of the broad gains on the last day...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — New York City pharmacies won’t be allowed to sell cigarettes or other tobacco products starting Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reports the ban also includes businesses that contain pharmacies, such as...
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