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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is questioning President Donald Trump's pick to head the government's consumer watchdog agency

Trump intends to nominate OMB associate director Kathy Kraninger to lead government's consumer watchdog agency

Six police officers have been shot dead in the central Mexico state of Puebla by suspected fuel thieves

China fires back at Trump tariff hike by increasing duties on US soybeans, electric cars, other goods

A set of retaliatory tariffs released by China includes a plan to tax American lobster exports, potentially jeopardizing one of the biggest markets for the premium seafood

Nike Inc. apologized after the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland said the similarities between a logo and the academy's historic seal are undeniable

China has fired back in a spiraling trade dispute with President Donald Trump by raising import duties on a $34 billion list of American goods including soybeans, electric cars and whiskey

California health officials are proposing a regulation change that would declare coffee doesn't present a significant cancer risk

The National Institutes of Health is shutting down a study that was supposed to show if a single drink a day could prevent heart attacks, citing ethical problems

Trump's tariffs: What they are, what's behind them, what they mean for consumers and business

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Global stock markets are mostly lower as U.S. President Donald Trump's approval of a plan to impose tough tariffs on China renewed concerns about trade friction

Representatives of the Walmart company heirs deny any involvement in the Georgia governor's race after a candidate was secretly recorded saying he backed a school choice law because campaign money from the family's non-profit foundation was at stake

Theranos founder, former chief operating officer charged with defrauding investors, doctors and patients

A federal judge in Louisiana has sentenced a Connecticut man to 10 years in prison for his conviction on charges he engaged in an identity theft scheme that cost Walmart nearly $1 million

Tough tariffs on China could collide with Trump's push to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula

The finance minister of Cyprus says the government has approved Hellenic Bank's multibillion-euro takeover offer for the troubled Cooperative Bank

Stocks are closing slightly lower Friday after the Trump administration announced a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports and China responded with planned tariffs of its own

North Korea's cyberattacks against US and its allies fails to make Singapore summit talking points 3 years after crippling Sony attack

The AP has learned that Donald Trump's campaign is secretly working with former employees of disgraced political consultancy company Cambridge Analytica. The employees' new firm denies the link, but confirms work for the Republican National Committee.