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US retail sales slip 0.2% in April as spending on cars, appliances and clothing falls.

A Claude Monet painting of haystacks sold Tuesday for a record-breaking $110.7 million in a New York auction.

The birth rates in the United States hit the lowest level in 32 years, a government report revealed Wednesday, sparking concern among experts that the current generation isn’t reproducing enough to replace itself.

Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher Wednesday after President Donald Trump downplayed his escalating tariff war with Beijing and said a settlement is possible.

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China's factory output and consumer spending weakened in April as a tariff war with Washington intensified.

Official figures show that the German economy returned to growth in the first quarter of 2019 on the back of solid consumer spending and a construction boom in Europe's largest economy.

A popular selling point for electric vehicles is the notion that you never have to stop for gas.

New satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press show the oil tankers that Gulf officials alleged were the targets of "sabotage" off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

Stocks regained some ground in morning trading Tuesday following a nosedive at the start of the week as the U.S. and China escalate their trade war.

Illinois' capital-city newspaper, a 188-year-old institution tied intimately to Abraham Lincoln, is without a news chief after its editor resigned in hopes of sparing more layoffs, according to a staff writer.

San Francisco supervisors will vote on surveillance oversight legislation Tuesday that includes a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by police and other city departments.

President Donald Trump will highlight his administration's efforts to ramp up liquefied natural gas exports as he visits a new plant Tuesday in southwest Louisiana.

He's been contradicted by one of his top advisers, dinged in regular fact checks and called out by top economists.

President Donald Trump's allies on Capitol Hill are scrambling to soften the blow from his trade war with China amid mounting anxiety from farm-state lawmakers.

For sale: waterfront property with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean.

Native American tribes are looking to the federal government to help improve access to high-speed internet.

The Latest on standoff between the two largest economies in the world as they trade retaliatory tariffs.

The Latest on a facial recognition ban in San Francisco (all times local): 3:10 p.m. San Francisco supervisors approved a ban on police using facial recognition technology, making it the first city in the U.S. with such a restriction.

Remi Adeleke grew up as a troubled teen, but turned his life around by joining the Navy SEALs and becoming a Hollywood actor.