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December 15, 2018

Rajapaksa set to quit as Sri Lanka's premier to end crisis

A Sri Lankan lawmaker said that disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign Saturday to end the country's political ...

December 15, 2018

California is first state to mandate zero-emission bus fleet

California moved Friday to eliminate climate-changing fossil fuels from its fleet of 12,000 transit buses, enacting a ...

December 15, 2018

California alleges utility falsified pipeline safety records

Regulators on Friday accused one of California's largest utilities of falsifying safety documents for natural gas pipelines ...

December 15, 2018

7-year-old in good health, border agents said; then she died

Just 7 years old, Jackeline Caal was picked up by U.S. authorities with her father and other migrants this month in a remote ...

December 15, 2018

Shutdown looms as Trump weighs next move on border wall

Congress is racing to avoid a partial government shutdown next Friday over President Donald Trump's border wall. But you ...

Mike Pompeo, Jim Mattis, Chrystia Freeland, Harjit Sajjan

December 15, 2018

US, Canada look to ease strains amid 3-way spat with China

The United States and Canada moved Friday to ease tensions between them over the case of a top Chinese technology executive ...

December 15, 2018

Trump club is in tax break zone, but is unlikely to benefit

President Donald Trump's company owns a golf club in an Opportunity Zone offering developers massive tax breaks, but experts ...

December 14, 2018

J&J hammered by report it knew of asbestos in baby powder

Johnson & Johnson on Friday forcefully denied a media report that it knew for decades about the existence of trace amounts ...

December 14, 2018

Michigan governor signs bills to gut wage, sick time laws

Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday signed laws to significantly scale back citizen-initiated measures to raise Michigan's minimum ...

December 14, 2018

Wisconsin's Walker signs sweeping lame-duck GOP bills

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a sweeping package of Republican legislation Friday that restricts early voting and ...

December 14, 2018

Nicaraguan police raid NGO offices, seize records

Nicaraguan police have raided the offices of five nongovernmental organizations and an independent media outlet, alleging ...

December 14, 2018

Obama-era rule leads to $150M in student loan forgiveness

The U.S. Education Department said it will forgive $150 million in federal student loans as part of a 2016 rule that ...

December 14, 2018

Trump lawyer seeks to send emoluments case to appeals court

A lawyer for President Donald Trump filed papers on Friday asking that a lawsuit accusing the president of profiting from his ...

December 14, 2018

GM says it has 2,700 jobs for workers slated to be laid off

General Motors' plans to lay off 14,000 salaried and blue-collar workers might not be as bad as originally projected.

December 14, 2018

Bug may have exposed photos from 7M Facebook users

Facebook's privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million users ...

December 14, 2018

Detentions raise fears, cast doubt on China's policies

By detaining two Canadians in an apparent act of retaliation, China is looking like the country its harshest critics say it ...

December 14, 2018

Macron urges calm, Paris police prepare for more violence

French President Emanuel Macron called Friday for calm as authorities prepared to deploy armored vehicles and thousands of ...

December 14, 2018

Apple strikes deal to produce new 'Peanuts' content

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the "Peanuts" crew will have a new home on Apple's streaming service. Apple has struck a deal with ...

December 14, 2018

The Latest: Chile to host next year's UN climate summit

The Latest on the U.N. climate meeting (all times local): 9:15 p.m. Countries have agreed that Chile will host next year's U.