Consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, expanded at a 3.7% pace, fastest since the ...

Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new ...

City of Plainview offices will be closed for the Christmas and New Year holidays. The closures include City Hall, Unger ...

ZURICH (AP) — Soccer world champion Argentina finished 2024 as the top-placed men's team in the FIFA rankings for a second straight year. There were only limited changes in the rankings published ...

SEATAC, Washington (AP) — Background music is no longer an afterthought at many airports, which are hiring local musicians and carefully curating playlists to help lighten travelers’ moods.

Thursday’s discussions were attended by foreign ministers and high-level representatives from Myanmar and its neighbors, Laos, China, India, Bangladesh and host Thailand. Thai Foreign Minister Maris ...

LONDON (AP) — The future of the Northern Ireland-based Harland and Wolff shipbuilder, which famously built the Titanic, appears to have been safeguarded on Thursday after the Spanish state-owned ...

Accenture expects full-year earnings to be $12.43 to $12.79 per share. Accenture shares have decreased almost 1% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has risen 23%. The stock has ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — France said Thursday that Burkina Faso released four French nationals it had detained for a year, following negotiations mediated by Morocco. France’s Elysee Palace said in a ...

Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with shooting to death a health insurance company chief executive on a Manhattan street, will be taken Thursday morning to hearings on related Pennsylvania criminal ...

AVIGNON, France (AP) — French court declares ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot guilty of rapes and all other charges against him.

Thompson was gunned down on the street as he walked to the hotel where his Minnesota-based company was holding an investor conference. The shooting was captured on security video, but the suspect ...