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WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer spending up healthy 0.3% in June while incomes rise 0.4% for fourth consecutive month.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals court has kept alive a man’s lawsuit against a suburban Cleveland city and police over a fake Facebook page that led to his arrest. A three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel...

NEW YORK (AP) — Million-selling novelist Julia Alvarez’s next book is a story of identity and immigration that she felt compelled to write. “Afterlife” will be published next April, Algonquin Books announced...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has put a conservative advocate who argues for selling off the nation’s public lands in charge of the nation’s nearly 250 million public acres. Interior Secretary David...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s highest court has upheld a new European system of bank supervision aimed at preventing financial crises and expensive taxpayer bailouts. The Federal Constitutional Court said in a ruling...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Bayer says the number of plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against subsidiary Monsanto over its Roundup weed killer in the United States swelled by 5,000 in the second quarter to about 18,400....

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was visiting Wales on Tuesday as part of a national tour intended to reassure Britons that his hard-Brexit push won’t hurt the economy and rip apart the U.K. He faces a...

LONDON (AP) — The fight to save the seas from plastic waste may mean the end for mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to stuff into their luggage. The owner of Holiday Inn and InterContinental...

LONDON (AP) — BP says second-quarter earnings were flat as increased production offset lower oil prices. Its underlying replacement cost profit — the industry’s preferred measure — remained at $2.81 billion. Production...

TOKYO (AP) — Sony Corp. has reported a 33% drop in its fiscal first quarter profit as sales dipped in its electronics operations, including TV sets and camcorders. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company reported...