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Drugmakers, China sink stocks

Worries about Chinese economy push stock market back down

Trump proposes tax cuts

Experts say plan would add to national debt

States get guidance on handling drilling quakes

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A group of U.S. drilling states, seismologists, academics and industry experts issued guidance Monday in a frank new report on handling human-induced earthquakes caused by h...

Obama, Putin clash over vision for resolving Syrian crisis

UNITED NATIONS – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin clashed Monday over their competing visions for Syria, with Obama urging a political transition to replace t...

U.S. consumer spending up 0.4 percent in August

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer spending rose at a healthy rate in August, while income growth slowed after a big jump in July. Consumer spending advanced 0.4 percent compared to July,...

Prison worker who helped 2 killers escape gets up to 7 years

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – A remorseful, tearful former prison worker who helped two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup by providing them with tools was sentenced Monday to u...

Nation & World Briefs

12 injured at Arizona festival TEMPE, Ariz. – An Arizona music festival is set to resume for a Kanye West performance after as many as 12 people were injured when a crowd rushed a...

Pope wraps up joyful U.S. visit

Open-air Mass highlights final day

Obama makes forceful defense of new development goals

President says countries must do more to help refugees

Hillary Clinton says she’s ‘as transparent as possible’

Emails with Gen. Petraeus show use of private server earlier than reported

VW facing ‘tsunami’ of legal trouble

WASHINGTON – Who knew about the deception, when did they know it and who directed it? Those are among questions that state and federal investigators want answered as they plunge i...

McCarthy rises to top

California representative set to be next speaker of the House