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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 ...

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats say the State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia last yea...

The gunman in a deadly attack at a military base in Pensacola, Florida, last December was meticulous in his planning and had been radicalized overseas for at least five years, U.S. officials said Mond...

HONG KONG - The latest U.S. sanctions on tech giant Huawei threaten to devastate the company and escalate a feud with China that could disrupt technology industries worldwide. Huawei Technologies Ltd....

GENEVA - China will provide $2 billion over two years to fight the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout from it, President Xi Jinping said Monday, rallying around the World Health Organizatio...

NEW YORK (AP) – The coronavirus pandemic has pushed troubled department store chain J.C. Penney into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth major retailer to meet that fate. Penney said late Fr...