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Sri Lanka was the Lonely Planet guide's top travel destination for 2019, but since the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels, foreign tourists have fled.

The Latest on the competition for the XPrize For Global Learning (all times local): 8 p.m.

It's one thing to teach a child to read, but can children teach themselves to read?

Stocks shook off an early slump and turned higher in morning trading Wednesday, led by solid gains in Microsoft, Facebook and Google.

Bill Shorten, the man most likely to become Australia's prime minister in elections on Saturday, has the solid support of his center-left Labor Party behind him.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says his agency is still "in the throes of constructing" an aid package for farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs, but he is not saying when it will be ready.

The Latest on a wildfire that killed 85 people in Paradise, California.

The White House has launched an online form asking people to share their experiences if they think political bias has led to their posts being removed from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

More than a week after a cyberattack hobbled Baltimore's computer network, city officials said Wednesday they can't predict when its overall system will be up and running and continued to give only the broadest outlines of the problem.

Several world leaders and tech bosses are meeting in Paris to find ways to stop acts of violent extremism from being shown online.

Lawmakers in Texas are considering a bill that would stiffen penalties for those who damage or trespass around oil and gas operations, despite opposition from environmental activists.

A self-driving shuttle got pulled over by police on its first day carrying passengers on a new Rhode Island route.

With Congress stepping up its investigation into the troubled Boeing 737 Max airliner and how it passed regulatory safety checks, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration will appear before a House aviation panel.

___ Mnuchin optimistic on trade battles; Wall Street approves WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is making progress in talks with Canada and Mexico over the lifting of steel tariffs, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.

The federal Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday renewed mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, a project that environmentalists fear would spoil the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

The House on Wednesday approved a bill reaffirming the right of a Massachusetts tribe to hold land in trust, a crucial step to building a $1 billion casino.

North Carolina's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a popular e-cigarette maker, asking a court to limit what flavors it can sell and ensure underage teens can't buy it.

Stocks closed solidly higher on Wall Street as traders became more hopeful that some of the U.S.'s frictions with its trading partners will ease.

A Trump administration appointee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who came under fire after racist comments he wrote years ago resurfaced is leaving the agency.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: The Progressive Corp., up $3.86 to $77.50