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Europe evacuates citizens from China, Russia shuts border

LISBON, Portugal - European countries stepped up efforts Thursday to contain the virus sweeping through central China, sending a chartered airliner there to evacuate hundreds of European citizens, scr...

Feb 01, 2020

UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China

GENEVA - The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spi...

Feb 01, 2020

Wary of irking China, Trump offers rosy take on virus threat

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump regaled a friendly New Jersey campaign crowd with his thoughts about with his thoughts about impeachment, the economy, the border wall, local politics and much more...

Feb 01, 2020

Parents charged after Chicago boy shot in struggle over gun

CHICAGO - The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head as his parents struggled over a gun inside a Chicago home were each ordered held on Thursday in lieu of $10,000 bond. Travis McCoy, 2...

Feb 01, 2020

Bank of England holds fire as Brexit uncertainty eases

LONDON - The Bank of England on Thursday opted against cutting interest rates amid signs of improvement in the British economy in the run-up to Britain's imminent departure from the European Union. Th...

Feb 01, 2020

US, others impose restrictions as virus toll spikes further

BEIJING - The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country withi...

Jan 31, 2020

Facebook reports 4Q profit, user growth despite challenges

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook had a strong fourth quarter, making more money on advertising and adding more users despite challenges around regulation, privacy and efforts to fight election interference. I...

Jan 31, 2020

Regulators revisit environmental review for Line 3 pipeline

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota regulators opened a hearing Friday o n an updated environmental review for Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across the state, but most ...

Jan 31, 2020

Britain leaves the European Union, leaps into the unknown

LONDON - So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu. With little fuss and not much fanfare, Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership, taking a leap into the unknown in a h...

Jan 31, 2020

Fed chair sees China virus as possible risk to world economy

WASHINGTON - Just as the outlook for the global economy had been brightening in recent months, a new threat has suddenly emerged in the form of the viral outbreak in China. That was the cautionary mes...

Jan 31, 2020