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TORONTO - Canada and the US have agreed to extend their agreement to keep border closed to non-essential travel to June 21 during the coronavirus pandemic. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said ...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Fed's lending programs for medium-sized businesses and state and local governments would begin operating by the end of this month...

WASHINGTON - Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will temporarily become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican leaders announced, taking charge of the panel at a time of turnover and tension ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill for lunch Tuesday with Senate Republicans as Washington considers next steps in the coronavirus response. That's according to a person un...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ken Osmond, who played the two-faced teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell on TV's "Leave It to Beaver," died Monday, his family said.Osmond died in Los Angeles at age 76. No indication o...

NEW YORK - Uber has cut 3,000 jobs from its workforce, its second major wave of layoffs in two weeks as the coronavirus slashed demand for rides.The San Francisco company has cut a quarter of its work...

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve have lent hardly any money under a $500 billion fund created by the economic rescue law passed in response to the coronavirus crisis, a congres...

NEW YORK - Michelle Obama was joined by a famous fellow reader Monday on her popular online series "Mondays With Michelle Obama."The former first lady first read "The Giraffe Problem," by Jory John an...

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Monday that the party "will not be holding a virtual convention," pledging that the presidential nominating convention in late August will ...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he did not expect an investigation into the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation to lead to criminal probes of either President Donald ...