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  Walgreens Boots Alliance just announced a deal to buy Rite Aid, and there is one clear winner on Wall Street. Swiss bank UBS is the… Read More ›

  Apple has recorded the biggest annual profit in corporate history, with record sales of the iPhone helping it to make $53.4bn (£35bn) in the… Read More ›

  Florida – On the eve of the his party’s third debate, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson promised not to curb his penchant for using… Read More ›

  Washington – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said 13 major U.S. life insurers had admitted to using incentives such as expensive vacations and gifts, which… Read More ›

  London – A man received a six-year prison sentence Tuesday after admitting guilt to terror and immigration offenses, British prosecutors said. Police discovered images on… Read More ›

Hasakah, Syria – Lightly armed, poorly equipped and exhausted by months under fire — but determined to keep fighting: this is the reality of life on… Read More ›

The Pentagon took a major step toward upgrading its aging bomber fleet Tuesday, awarding the long-awaited contract to build the new Long Range Strike Bomber… Read More ›

  The contours of an emerging budget deal would provide Congress with a way out of most of the coming landmines ahead of the 2016… Read More ›

  I wrote this summer about record amounts of investment capital being raised for natural resources. And this week we got some big news about where… Read More ›

  US Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) is not done with Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The company has been under pressure the past few weeks, first facing questions… Read More ›

  Newark, NJ – Republican front-runner Donald Trump is widely unpopular among the nation’s Hispanics, a new AP-GfK poll finds, challenging the billionaire’s oft-repeated assertion… Read More ›

  New York – For five days, police scuba divers, working in pairs, combed 67,000 square feet of riverbed while on their stomachs in search… Read More ›

  Chicago, IL –  Police chiefs from across the United States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms purchases, saying opinion polls consistently… Read More ›

Amid the incessant crackle of gunfire, the soldiers usher the cowering men through darkened rooms. The men are barefoot, most of them wearing long robes,… Read More ›

  Poland’s parliamentary election has seen the Eastern European nation edge further to the right, an election official announced Monday. Wojciech Hermelinski, head of the… Read More ›

  You may have just learned that processed meat such as bacon, sausage and ham may cause cancer and unprocessed meat may be “probably carcinogenic… Read More ›

  Vice President Joe Bidenused Sunday’s “60 Minutes” interview to dispel several rumors about his deliberations on launching a 2016 presidential run — including one that helped… Read More ›

  While the tech sector may be slowing down, that won’t stop the surge in Bay Area rents. In a note to clients on Friday,… Read More ›

  DUNCAN, British Columbia (Reuters) – A tour boat with 27 passengers on board has sunk off the coast of British Columbia, killing an unknown… Read More ›

  Cairo – Scientists will scan four of Egypt’s ancient pyramids starting next month using waves, particles and thermal imaging in order to see what… Read More ›