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Divers search Indonesian lake for 192 missing after sinking

Distraught relatives slammed Indonesia's government for not enforcing basic safety measures on passenger boats and pleaded ...

Australian telecom Telstra to ax 8,000 jobs to save $740M

Telstra Corp., Australia's largest telecommunications company, announced on Wednesday that it will ax 8,000 jobs — one in ...

Canadian senate passes weed bill but legalization delayed

Canada's Senate gave final passage Tuesday to the federal government's bill to legalize cannabis, though Canadians will have ...

Sailors honor Pearl Harbor survivor during one last visit

Ray Emory survived the early morning attack on Pearl Harbor that killed nearly 2,400 servicemen in shower of bombs and ...

South Korean crypto exchange loses $31 million from hack

A leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchange said Wednesday that $31 million worth of virtual currencies have been stolen ...

Business up at New Jersey track, casino with sports bets

Arthur Rosen puzzled over the photocopied sheet of paper listing all sorts of exotic bets on baseball games, including one ...

Atlantic City's Ocean Resort Casino (ex-Revel) seeks license

Eight days before it plans to open, Atlantic City's Ocean Resort Casino will go before state gambling regulators to seek a ...

Unionized MGM workers in Las Vegas ratify contract

Thousands of unionized workers at Las Vegas casino-resorts operated by MGM Resorts International, including Bellagio, Aria ...

Muriel Bowser

DC Mayor Bowser wins; voters OK pay shift for tipped workers

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser easily secured the Democratic Party nomination Tuesday night as she seeks a second term ...

10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. SEARCH ON FOR ...

Wilbur Ross

After query, Ross shorted stock in Kremlin-tied firm: report

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made a trade betting that the stock in a shipping company with Russian-government ties would ...

Verizon

Mobile carriers cut off flow of location data to brokers

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile have pledged to stop providing information on U.S. phone owners' locations to data ...

Pearl Harbor survivor says goodbye before leaving Hawaii

Nearly eight decades ago, Ray Emory, then a young sailor, watched in disbelief as Japanese torpedoes tore into American ships ...

Mark Zuckerberg

Google, Facebook, others speak out against child separation

Some business leaders are condemning the Trump administration's decision to separate children from parents who are accused ...

FedEx profit rises on increase in volume, shipping rates

Higher rates, tax benefits and steady business fueled by economic growth helped FedEx Corp. boost its fourth-quarter profit ...

Steve Levitan

Fox News Channel faces backlash from Hollywood creators

Fox News Channel faces a growing backlash among Hollywood creators that intensified Tuesday following Laura Ingraham's ...

Cruz's flip-flop on family separation shows threat to GOP

Ted Cruz has staged a dramatic about-face on the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policies, laying bare ...

GE to end more than 100-year run on Dow; Walgreens added

General Electric will be dropped from the Dow Jones industrial average next week, ending the conglomerate's more than ...

US commander warns against leaving Afghanistan too rapidly

The battle-hardened Army commander nominated to take over U.S. military operations in Afghanistan warned senators Tuesday ...

Authorities: 3 dead in shooting outside a Walmart in Alabama

A gunman crashed into a vehicle outside a Walmart store on Tuesday morning, opening fire and killing two women before taking ...