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Most Fed officials see rates staying on hold for all of 2019

WASHINGTON - A majority of Federal Reserve officials last month believed that economic conditions would likely warrant keeping the Fed's benchmark policy unchanged for the rest of this year. Several o...

Apr 12, 2019

Amid scandal, audit ordered into Baltimore non-profit's work

Baltimore's acting leader has ordered an audit of a non-profit's management of a $12 million city youth fund after it was tied to distribution of the embattled mayor's children's books. The audit of A...

Apr 12, 2019

Lena Dunham celebrates 1st year of sobriety

NEW YORK - Lena Dunham is celebrating one year of sobriety. The 32-year-old actress shared her milestone in an Instagram post Wednesday with a photo of her flashing a thumbs-up. The "Girls" creator re...

Apr 12, 2019

Liberal's concession in Wisconsin race boosts GOP confidence

MADISON, Wis. - The liberal candidate's concession Wednesday in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race gave Republicans a boost of confidence following a string of losses heading into the 2020 presidential ca...

Apr 12, 2019

Police: Coffee shop owner killed, 17 hurt in gas explosion

DURHAM, N.C. - A leaking gas line exploded Wednesday in a Durham shopping district,killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others as firefighters were evacuating people from buildings near t...

Apr 12, 2019

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has book coming in the fall

NEW YORK - Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has a book deal. St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday that Haley's book, currently untitled, will come out t...

Apr 12, 2019

Chevron vaults into new league on $33B Anadarko acquisition

Chevron will buy Anadarko Petroleum for $33 billion in a cash-and-stock, energizing its deep water exploration in the gulf and in the energy-rich southwest region of Texas called the Permian Basin. Th...

Apr 12, 2019

Europe hurt by US trade threats, central bank says

FRANKFURT - The head of the European Central Bank warned that global friction over trade - such as U.S. threats to impose more tariffs - is holding back the economy and underlined the bank's readiness...

Apr 12, 2019

Advisers: Baltimore's mayor still recovering from pneumonia

BALTIMORE - Close advisers to Baltimore's embattled mayor said Tuesday that she's staying out of public view because of a serious case of pneumonia, not the mounting scandal involving her sale of her ...

Apr 12, 2019

Science fact: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole

WASHINGTON - Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edge of the abyss. The picture, assembled f...

Apr 12, 2019