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Retail rivals crash Amazon's Prime Day party

NEW YORK - The gravitational pull of Amazon Prime Day is so strong on shoppers it's benefiting other retailers as well, according to an early analysis from a key data group. On Monday, the first day o...

Jul 18, 2019

Southwest cancellations will rise due to grounded Boeing jet

DALLAS - Southwest Airlines is again pushing back the date it expects to be able to fly the grounded Boeing 737 Max jet, meaning more flight cancellations. Southwest said Thursday that it was taking t...

Jul 18, 2019

Montana, North Dakota push against Washington state rail law

BILLINGS, Mont. - Attorneys general for North Dakota and Montana asked the Trump administration on Wednesday to overrule a Washington state law that imposed new restrictions on oil trains from the Nor...

Jul 18, 2019

Woman who got postcard sent in 1993 tracks down sender

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois woman who recently got a 1993 postcard in her mailbox has tracked down the man who sent it to his children more than two decades ago. Kim Draper's story about the myste...

Jul 18, 2019

Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad 50 years later

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Collins had the spotlight to h...

Jul 18, 2019

House condemns Trump 'racist' tweets in extraordinary rebuke

WASHINGTON - In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four congresswomen of colour, despit...

Jul 18, 2019

Police officer in 'I can't breathe' death won't be charged

NEW YORK - After years of silence, federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won't bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a bl...

Jul 18, 2019

Trump slams 4 congresswomen; crowd chants, 'Send her back!'

GREENVILLE, N.C. - Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of c...

Jul 18, 2019

Mnuchin: Negotiators agree on core elements of budget deal

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-shin) says budget and debt negotiators have reached an agreement on the core elements of a deal to increase the government's borrowing cap and ...

Jul 18, 2019

EU fines chipmaker Qualcomm for 'predatory pricing'

BRUSSELS - The European Union on Thursday fined U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm $271 million, accusing it of "predatory pricing" to drive a competitor out of the market. EU Antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Ve...

Jul 18, 2019