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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Tuesday to a new record low of 1% in a bid to boost the economy. The cut is the second in...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank cuts benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a new record low of 1%.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — María Victoria Guarín was a key adviser on Colombia’s biggest-ever transportation project: a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) highway across mountainous terrain connecting the capital to busy Caribbean...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government returned to Parliament on Tuesday claiming a new mandate from the May election to pass 158 billion Australian dollars ($110 billion) in tax cuts into law. Prime Minister Scott...

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has filed a handwritten lawsuit against a fast food chain, saying he was discriminated against because he had too few hash browns with his breakfast order. The Gaston Gazette reports...

LONDON (AP) — An influential British parliamentary committee urged the government Tuesday to urgently bring forward new laws addressing campaigning techniques in the digital age, insisting that democracy itself is under threat...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks often about the strong partnership he has fostered with his neighbor to the south, Gov. Claudia Pavlovich of Sonora, Mexico. And the former chief executive of an international...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state agency says a cyberattack has forced it to shut down some court websites. News outlets report hackers demanding a ransom infected computers with malware at the Georgia Administrative Office of the...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s new ammunition background check law began Monday not with a bang but with a whimper from dealers who reported delays and glitches with the state’s online system. But they said...

Stocks closed broadly higher Monday, sending the S&P 500 to an all-time high, as Wall Street welcomed a truce in the trade dispute between the U.S. and China. The two sides agreed to resume talks and the U.S. said it would...