TOKYO (AP) — Global trading was muted Monday, but Japan’s benchmark rose on the back of a parliamentary election victory by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democrats, who had promised stability and growth....
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Rescue workers have located two more bodies buried by a landslide in a construction site in northern Malaysia, bringing the death toll to 11. Fire and rescue official Mohamad Rizuan Ramli said the...
Read MoreTOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher Monday, with Japan’s benchmark rising on the back of an election victory by the prime minister’s ruling party, which had promised stability and growth. KEEPING SCORE:...
Read MoreKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities in Tennessee say a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Knoxville, sending rail cars carrying shipping containers off the tracks, with some of them plowing into buildings. No one was injured....
Read MorePORT ARANSAS, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for two missing crew members from a barge that caught fire off the Texas coast. Coast Guard spokeswoman Jennae Steinmiller says that emergency responders also worked...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s boast that he surpasses his predecessors in consoling families of the fallen proved empty this past week as many stepped forward to say they’d never heard from him after...
Read MoreSONOMA, Calif. (AP) — When the wildfires ignited, vineyard workers stopped picking grapes and fled for their lives. Some vineyard owners decided to stay and fight back, spending days digging firebreaks and sleeping among their...
Read MoreMENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. said Friday that its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria....
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday defended the central bank’s extraordinary efforts to fight the Great Recession and said they might be needed again. During the recession, the Fed pushed...
Read MoreKENNER, La. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a man who was killed during an explosion on an oil and gas platform in Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said a helicopter spotted...
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