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China's former internet censor is standing trial over corruption allegations

Australian lawyers' group say proposed cybersecurity laws to force companies such as Facebook and Google to help police by unscrambling encrypted messages would significantly limit privacy and freedom

The Nunez family has three generations and 15 members jammed into a four-bedroom home in Salinas, California, because housing is so expensive

Facebook gears up 'war room' to combat potential abuses of its social network heading into major elections in Brazil, US

President Donald Trump is lashing out over a caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and the state's congressional delegation are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his administration's plan to shut down a half-built nuclear fuel facility in their state

Two Kansas water park workers have been found not guilty of lying during the investigation into the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy on a waterslide

People in Salinas, California, turn backyard sheds into illegal bedrooms and pack multiple generations into single-family homes to make ends meet

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Study finds job growth is no cure for a community's poverty

Election officials and federal cybersecurity agents are touting improved collaboration toward confronting and deterring election tampering

U.S. stocks slumped again Thursday as investors continued to sell shares of technology and internet companies, industrials, and companies that rely on consumer spending.

The Latest: US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin not going to Saudi conference

Two Kansas water park workers have been found not guilty of lying during the investigation into the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy on a waterslide

British Prime Minister Theresa May will head home from an inconclusive European Union summit on Brexit to a barrage of criticism that her 27 EU counterparts spared her

The EU budget chief hands Italy a stinging letter warning that significantly higher deficit targets represented a deviation "unprecedented in the history" of the stability pact, while offering reassurances that Brussels is "not an adversary of Italy.''

Cyprus-based airline Cobalt Air says it has indefinitely suspended all of its operations amid a struggle to find investors

Europe and Asia should use their combined economic clout "to tackle global challenges such as trade tensions that put millions of jobs at risk" and the threat of climate change, a top European official said Thursday

Regardless of how midterm elections turn out, Wall Street usually ends up a big winner

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says he will not attend Saudi investment conference