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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery rose 42 cents to $46.99 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for February delivery rose 32 cents to $50.29 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

The COVID-19 vaccine has begun arriving in Washington state and authorities are getting shots ready for people in high-risk categories who will be eligible to receive it in the first...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers was unveiling a detailed COVID-19 aid proposal Monday as Congress labored toward a final agreement on a new round of virus relief. Progress was being...

An independent monitor will watch the United Auto Workers' finances and operations, and members will decide how they pick future leaders under a reform agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office....

Health care workers at a Kansas City hospital will start receiving shots of the coronavirus vaccine Monday, and thousands of other medical workers across Missouri will soon follow. Truman Medical...

Health care workers at a Kansas City hospital will start receiving shots of the coronavirus vaccine Monday, and thousands of other medical workers across Missouri will soon follow. Truman Medical...

Governments and major corporations worldwide are scrambling to see if they, too, were victims of a global cyberespionage campaign that penetrated multiple U.S. government agencies and involved a common software...

A Georgia man who lied to his employer that he had tested positive for COVID-19 pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges, prosecutors said. Santwon Antonio Davis, 35, pleaded guilty to...

The Cleveland Indians are changing their name — they just don't know to what or when. Expressing that “it's time," owner Paul Dolan said that after months of internal discussions...

The president-elect has suggested that executive action is overreach, but given the economic and health crisis we're in, he needs to act fast & decisively. He should look at what...

A San Diego strip club kept on offering live adult entertainment over the weekend despite a warning from California's attorney general, who has vowed to take legal action if the...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has been exiled from America since 2013. But there's growing speculation that Donald Trump might pardon him in a provocative move that would be guaranteed to appal...

EDITORS: Here are the plans for AP's year-end package. All stories will carry a YE- slug. This advisory will be updated daily Monday-Friday until Dec. 24 to reflect additions and...

The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defense system, setting the stage for further confrontation between the two...

Kansas health care workers on Monday began receiving the first of the state's coronavirus vaccines amid an ongoing fall surge in cases that has left hospitals stressed. Five employees of...

Apple will begin spelling out what kinds of personal information is being collected by the digital services displayed in its app stores for iPhones and other products made by the...

London and its surrounding areas will be placed under Britain's highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said Monday, adding...

The Federal Reserve's policymakers face an unusual conundrum as they meet this week: A short-term economic outlook that is worsening even while the longer-term picture is brightening thanks to the...

The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine began arriving arriving throughout the U.S. on Monday including in Texas, with health care workers first in line to receive the shots. The...

Forced into an embarrassing climbdown by Hungary and Poland and ceding way in the Brexit talks, EU chiefs now face unrest over their deal with normally compliant Norway which has...

In a story December 9, 2020, about allergic reactions to vaccines, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the ingredients in the Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech vaccine were proprietary and not...

Thomas Stith III, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration in North Carolina and a former top aide to then-Gov. Pat McCrory, was hired Monday to lead the state's...

The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist appears designed to provoke Iran into retaliating, triggering a conflict that would kill the nuclear deal just as Joe Biden indicates the US...

The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist appears designed to provoke Iran into retaliating, triggering a conflict that would kill the nuclear deal just as Joe Biden indicates the US...

A new legal fight has emerged, centered on the years-long controversy over landowners' rights to develop residential property near the Homestead Air Reserve Base. For decades, the city has struggled...

Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. “A lot of what has...

Why are we treating Covid just as we did in March? The last 10 months have shown forcing people to stay inside is causing endless damage. And the loudest backers...

Chinese tech giant Huawei wants to talk to French soccer player Antoine Griezmann about its human rights record. The Barcelona forward had promoted Huawei's smartphones in advertisements but cut ties...

An autonomous vehicle company acquired this year by Amazon has unveiled a four-person “robo-taxi," a compact, multidirectional vehicle designed for dense, urban environments. The carriage-style interior of the vehicle produced...

An autonomous vehicle company acquired this year by Amazon has unveiled a four-person “robo-taxi," a compact, multidirectional vehicle designed for dense, urban environments. The carriage-style interior of the vehicle produced...

Grain futures were mostly higher on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. was off .03 cents at $5.9860 a bushel; Mar. corn was...

Grain futures were mostly higher on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Mar. was off .03 cents at $5.9860 a bushel; Mar. corn was...

Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. “A lot of what has...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has upset both Brussels and Washington of late as Turkey has done significant deals with Moscow and Beijing. But despite growing estrangement from the West, he...

Houston Chronicle. Dec. 7, 2020 Editorial: Hairstylists get more training than Texas cops? That's unacceptable. People who call the police for help in a life and death situation have every...

A Seminole air conditioning repair company ponied up $10,125 after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found violations of federal overtime pay rules, the federal agency announced. Jenergy Air Services...

Social media has become the world-changing tool it always promised to be, but sadly not in a good way. But is it about to redeem itself? The founders of a...

Google users in the U.S., Europe, India and other parts of the world were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or get to their online documents...

Barbecue chain Dickey's Barbecue Pit is openings its second South Florida location, betting that the growing population from New York, Chicago, and California will have a taste for Texas-style beef...

The state of the South Florida jobs market in December 2020? Confusing. On the one hand, about 119,000 individuals remained out of work in October in Miami-Dade County, according to...