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Trump announces $10 billion Foxconn plant in Wisconsin

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Electronics giant Foxconn will build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that's ...

Center called 'powerful first step' as Ferguson still mends

The National Urban League president helped christen a new job training and education center in Ferguson on Wednesday, calling ...

Mitch McConnell, John Barrasso, John Thune, John Cornyn

What's next: Senate GOP considers "skinny" health care bill

Republican senators were looking to go skinny Wednesday as they struggled to repeal key parts of former President Barack ...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Wasserman Schultz fires IT staffer following fraud arrest

Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has fired an information technology staffer following his arrest on a bank fraud ...

FBI investigating death from domestic dispute on cruise ship

A domestic dispute aboard a cruise ship led to the death of a 39-year-old Utah woman, and the FBI is investigating what ...

Lisa Murkowski

GOP senators blink on a big chance to repeal 'Obamacare'

After seven years of emphatic campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn't have the stomach to repeal ...

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Senate Rejects Proposal for ‘Obamacare’ Repeal

The Republican-run Senate has rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Barack Obama’s health care law and give Congress ...

Mark Oldenburg

Now hiring at Amazon: Thousands of people in 1 day

Amazon plans to make thousands of job offers in just one day as it holds a giant job fair next week at nearly a dozen ...

Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods sales struggle shows Amazon buying a fixer-upper

Amazon is set to have a fixer-upper on its hands, with Whole Foods reporting that a key sales figure declined again.

Facebook's ads just keep creeping into new apps

Scrolling through an ad-free Instagram is now a distant memory, much like the once ad-free Facebook itself. Soon, users of ...

Donald Trump, Melania Trump

The Latest: Senate rejects proposal for 'Obamacare' repeal

The Latest on the effort by congressional Republicans to pass a health care bill (all times local): 4:20 p.m.

Records: Student-loan forgiveness has halted under Trump

The U.S. Education Department has not approved any applications for student-loan forgiveness in cases of possible fraud since ...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

The Latest: Gore slams trump's military transgender ban

The Latest on President Donald Trump's decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military (all times local): ...

Paul Ryan

House GOP works to deliver on border wall for Trump

House Republican allies of President Donald Trump are intent on giving him a long-sought victory in Congress by finally ...

The Latest: Man slain at protest in western Venezuela

The latest on Venezuela, where a two-day national strike has been called beginning Wednesday to protest President Nicolas ...

Alex Stamos

At hacker summit, a new focus on preventing brazen attacks

Against a backdrop of cyberattacks that have grown into full-fledged sabotage, Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos ...

Alphons Iacobelli

Ex-Fiat Chrysler executive charged in union official payoff

A former Fiat Chrysler executive was charged Wednesday with looting a training center for blue-collar workers by giving $1.

Experts: Software theft shows threat of mercenary hackers

On an October morning in 2012, the system administrator of a tiny Vermont defense contractor arrived at work to find the ...

Fed leaves rates alone but moves closer to selling off bonds

The Federal Reserve is keeping its key interest rate unchanged at a time when inflation remains persistently low. But it ...

Martin Shkreli

'Pharma Bro' won't stop talking, except to jury in trial

"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli has kept up his trademark trolling on social media during his securities fraud trial — calling ...