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Exec who jacked up price of a life-saving drug is arrested

NEW YORK – Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager vilified for buying a pharmaceutical company and jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug more than fiftyfold, was arrested Thursday...

New Orleans council votes to remove Confederate monuments

NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans City Council has voted in favor of removing prominent Confederate monuments along some of its busiest streets – a sweeping move by a city seeking to break with ...

Buyer of rifles used in massacre charged in terrorism case

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The man who bought the assault rifles used by his friend in the San Bernardino massacre was charged Thursday with terrorism-related counts for plotting an earlier attack ...

School threats prompt proposals for tougher penalties

HARTFORD, Conn. – Taking a harder line on crimes no longer seen as juvenile pranks, state lawmakers around the U.S. are proposing stiffer penalties for people who threaten schools at a time ...

Yellen calls hike sign of confidence

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates from record lows set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, a shift that heralds modestly higher rates on some loans. ...

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Mistrial declared in Freddie Gray trial BALTIMORE – A judge declared a hung jury Wednesday after the panel couldn’t reach a decision in the manslaughter trial of a Baltimore polic...

Fed finally lifts key interest rate from near zero

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates after seven years of record lows. But it’s signaling that further rate hikes will likely be made slowly as the economy strengthens ...

California decides self-driving cars will need to have driver behind wheel

LOS ANGELES – California unveiled precedent-setting draft rules Wednesday that would slow the public’s access to self-driving cars of the future until regulators are confident the technology...

U.S. industrial production registers worst month since 2012

WASHINGTON – U.S. industrial output fell for the third straight month in November, another sign that American manufacturers are under stress. American industrial production droppe...

Massive year-end spending bill includes cybersecurity act

WASHINGTON – The massive year-end spending measure includes a provision that will encourage companies to share cyber threat information with the government. The measure, which rep...

Jail populations rising fastest in small counties

NEW YORK – While big-city jails get most of the attention, lockups in small and medium-sized counties have actually driven the overall explosion in the U.S. inmate population, according to a...

UN ends investigation of Iran’s nuke program

VIENNA – The UN nuclear agency closed the books Tuesday on its decade-long probe of allegations that Iran worked on atomic arms, and Tehran proclaimed that within weeks, it would finish cutb...
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