Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - The Latest on the alleged use of Facebook data to influence the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 9:55 p.m. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is willing to testify before Con...

NEW YORK - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines steps to protect user data in light of privacy scandal. More info coming. The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court upheld a copyright infringement verdict against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over the 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines.” In a split decision from a ...

NEW YORK - The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, accept responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management exper...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday in a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy’s durability while signalling that it plans to continue a gradual approach to ...

PARIS - Britney Spears has landed her first high fashion modeling campaign as the new face of Paris-based Kenzo. The 36-year-old singer said she had been waiting for the “right fit and the right...

NEW YORK - Opening arguments are set for Thursday in the federal government’s efforts to block AT&T’s efforts to gobble up Time Warner in a case that could shape how you get - and how ...

MOSCOW - A rocket carrying two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station has blasted off successfully. The Soyuz booster blasted off as scheduled Wednesday from th...

CHICAGO - The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Jack White and Arctic Monkeys will headline this year’s Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. Travis Scott, The National, Vampire Weekend and Odesza also were...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Sixteen actresses, including Jane Fonda, Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon and Natalie Portman, are urging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to raise the wage paid to tipped workers. The...