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Oil price drops for 2nd day despite heightened Gulf tensions

NEW YORK - Oil prices retreated for a second day Wednesday even as the Saudi military blamed Iran for recent attacks to critical oil infrastructure and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the s...

Sep 20, 2019

A divided Fed reduces rates but may not cut again this year

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for a second time this year but declined to signal that further rate cuts are likely this year. The Fed's move ...

Sep 20, 2019

Auto union strike is latest worry in Flint, GM's birthplace

FLINT, Mich. - The birthplace of General Motors has been on an economic roller-coaster ride for more than a century as the automaker rose, crashed and retooled for changing markets. Now, the city of F...

Sep 20, 2019

2 Federal Reserve officials highlight deep divisions

WASHINGTON - Two Federal Reserve officials who dissented from this week's quarter-point rate cut on Friday highlighted the current deep divisions at the central bank. Eric Rosengren, head of the Fed's...

Sep 20, 2019

Trump says he hosted Otto Warmbier's parents over weekend

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he and first lady Melania Trump hosted the family and friends of former hostage Otto Warmbier at the White House last weekend. The president says 25 people wer...

Sep 20, 2019

Trump names hostage envoy O'Brien national security adviser

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Robert O'Brien, his chief hostage negotiator and an established figure in Republican policy circles, as his new national security adviser. O'Brie...

Sep 20, 2019

No severe impacts from Imelda as it moves through Texas

HOUSTON - Tropical Depression Imelda has deluged parts of Southeast Texas with rain, but officials in Houston and surrounding communities said Wednesday that so far there have been no severe consequen...

Sep 20, 2019

Humberto brushes Bermuda as new hurricane threatens Mexico

MIAMI - Hurricane Humberto lashed Bermuda with strong winds Wednesday as the powerful Category 3 storm passed just to the north of the British Atlantic territory, while a newly formed hurricane threat...

Sep 20, 2019

Young people lead global climate change protests

BERLIN - In Canberra and Kabul, Cape Town and Berlin, and across the globe, hundreds of thousands of people took the streets Friday to demand that leaders tackle climate change in the run-up to a U.N....

Greg Fry Sep 19, 2019

Auction: Bonnie Parker's poetry book, Clyde Barrow's watch

DALLAS - A book of poetry handwritten by Bonnie Parker and a watch belonging to Clyde Barrow are among items from the outlaw Texas couple being offered at auction. RR Auction will offer the items Satu...

Sep 20, 2019