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House passes $19B disaster aid bill over Trump opposition

WASHINGTON - The House on Friday passed a $19 billion disaster aid bill that would deliver long-sought relief to farmers, victims of hurricanes and floods, and rebuild southern military bases, as Demo...

May 10, 2019

California to ban pesticide it says hurts babies' brains

LOS ANGELES - The nation's most productive agricultural state moved Wednesday to ban a controversial pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in bab...

May 10, 2019

Space-tourism dream edges toward reality in New Mexico

SANTA FE, N.M. - British billionaire Richard Branson and his space-tourism company Virgin Galactic announced new steps Friday toward offering thrill rides into the low reaches of space for paying pass...

May 10, 2019

Markets Right Now: Late selling leaves stocks slightly lower

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks ended mostly lower on Wall Street after a late wave of selling wiped out what was left of a modest midday ra...

May 10, 2019

US hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing vows retaliation

WASHINGTON - U.S. and Chinese negotiators resumed trade talks Friday under increasing pressure after President Donald Trump raised tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods and Beijing promised to reta...

May 10, 2019

Judge dismisses lawsuit over slain millionaire's residency

CONCORD, N.H. - A judge in New Hampshire dismissed a lawsuit Friday against a man relatives say killed his millionaire grandfather for inheritance money, saying the grandmother was not a resident of t...

May 10, 2019

Suspects in Colorado school shooting due back in court

DENVER - Both suspects in a suburban Denver school shooting are due back in court Friday as prosecutors file charges in the attack that killed a student and wounded eight others. The district attorney...

May 10, 2019

Farrakhan says he doesn't hate Jewish people

CHICAGO - Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that despite assertions by Facebook when it banned him from its platform, he is not a hater of Jewish people, is not a misogynis...

May 10, 2019

Mexico's prized beaches threatened by smelly algae invasion

MEXICO CITY - Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum - a seaweed-like algae - piling up o...

May 10, 2019

Why does Facebook fail to fix itself? It's partly humans

SAN FRANCISCO - The question comes up over and over, with extremist material, hate speech, election meddling and privacy invasions. Why can't Facebook just fix it? It's complicated, with reasons that ...

May 10, 2019