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The U.S. Coast Guard was searching for two missing crew members of a barge that caught fire off the Texas coast as oil discharges spread to an island in the Gulf of Mexico

Minneapolis will begin regulating Airbnb and other short-term vacation rentals, a move the city wanted to get in place before the 2018 Super Bowl

The Spanish government wants to sack Catalonia's separatist leaders and call fresh elections with previously untapped constitutional powers to take control of the prosperous industrial region

Police say suspects in a rental truck drove through the front entrance of a Louis Vuitton store in Columbus and carried off about $150,000 worth of designer merchandise

AP FACT CHECK: A fraught debate over families of the fallen joins more familiar subjects where Trump misstates the record

California wildfires plunge grape pickers, vineyard owners into same struggle to survive

Malta's government offers 1 million euro reward and protection to discover who killed investigative reporter

Police say gunmen have launched attacks near a U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia, wounding two policemen and a civilian

Resistance to change is often touted as a virtue in Indiana, but Gov. Eric Holcomb says the state's prosperity relies on rethinking that approach

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Algeria after Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel claimed Moroccan banks launder money from hashish trafficking

Motorists continue to see lower prices at the pumps in New Jersey

The US is looking to ban laptops from checked bags on international flights. Questions and answers on the proposal.

Divided Republicans in Congress are tackling an ambitious overhaul of the nation's tax system that would deeply cut levies for corporations and double the standard deduction used by most average Americans

End of an era for Hong Kong's last remaining stock market floor traders as exchange prepares to shut its trading hall, joining other world exchanges in going fully automated

Immigrant medical students in the U.S. are taking an active role in the debate over the future of a program that shields hundreds of thousands of people from deportation

Google says its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria.

Dan Gilbert says Detroit's pitch to land Amazon's second headquarters has advantages over competing bids

California judge tosses $417 million award in case claiming Johnson & Johnson baby powder caused cancer

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen defends the central bank's extraordinary efforts to fight the Great Recession and says they might be needed again

US regulators approve a new, more effective vaccine to prevent painful shingles caused by the chickenpox virus