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In new setback, Uber to lose license to work in London

LONDON – Uber will lose its license to operate in London because it may be endangering public safety and security, the local regulator said Friday, in a severe blow to a company already faci...

Closure at busy U.S.-Mexico border crossing promises headaches

SAN DIEGO – The busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico. The closure between San Die...

GOP health bill offers provisions aimed at helping 2 states

WASHINGTON – Provisions shoehorned into the Republican health care bill dangle extra money for Alaska and Wisconsin, home states of one GOP senator whose vote party leaders desperately need ...

SEC under fire for being hacked despite warnings on security

WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission waited until Wednesday to disclose a hack of its corporate filing system that occurred last year. The disclosure raises questions about th...

Appeals court sidesteps decision on U.S. fracking regulations

DENVER – A federal appeals court on Thursday sidestepped a decision on whether oil and gas regulations enacted by the Obama administration are legal, noting that the current administration p...

Pope admits church realized sex abuse problem ‘a bit late’

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday acknowledged the Catholic Church was “a bit late” in realizing the damage done by priests who rape and molest children, and said that the decades-long...

Mexico shocked by news: Girl trapped in rubble didn’t exist

MEXICO CITY – Hour after excruciating hour, Mexicans were transfixed by dramatic efforts to reach a young girl thought buried in the rubble of a school destroyed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquak...

U.S., Russian militaries hold unprecedented talks on Syria

WASHINGTON – Senior American and Russian military leaders met for an unprecedented, face-to-face session somewhere in the Middle East this week to discuss the growing tensions in the competi...

On work trips, DeVos flies on her own dime

WASHINGTON – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos flies on her personal plane at her own expense when she visits schools around the country, according to her office, as other Cabinet secretaries’...

Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake

Mexico navy official: No missing child in collapsed school

Was it a crime? 10 patients at nursing home died after Irma

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A 10th elderly patient has died after being kept inside a nursing home that turned into a sweatbox when Hurricane Irma knocked out its air conditioning for three days, even...

Facebook to release Russia ads to Congress amid pressure

NEW YORK – Facebook will provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators, bowing to pressure that it be more forthcoming with information that cou...