More Puerto Rico protests planned as governor resists calls to resign
Massive and at times violent protests in Puerto Rico showed no sign of stopping as labor unions on Thursday organized a Friday march to keep...
Minor quake shakes Mexico City, latest in week of tremors
A minor earthquake struck Mexico City on Thursday, the latest in a series of small tremors that have shaken buildings and jangled nerves across the...
Bullet-riddled U.S. flag that survived D-Day comes home 75 years later
Shot through by German machine gun bullets and tattered by the wind, an American flag that flew on the first U.S. invading ship on D-Day...
Wall Street rises as Fed’s Williams cements rate-cut expectations
U.S. stocks moved higher on Thursday after a slow start as comments from New York Fed President John Williams helped cement expectations for an interest...
Microsoft sales beat expectations as cloud growth slows
Microsoft Corp beat analysts’ estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, even as sales growth began to slow for its cloud product Azure and...
Second opioid distributor charged over role in U.S. drug epidemic
An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives were charged on Thursday with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills...
Stocks gain on Fed rate cut optimism; oil drops
A gauge of global stocks advanced on Thursday, erasing declines on a late rally after comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve policymaker heightened expectations for...
Trump says U.S. Navy ‘destroyed’ Iranian drone in Gulf
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a U.S. Navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened...
WHO flags Ebola risk in Rwanda, but then withdraws its report
The World Health Organization on Thursday withdrew a report that said an Ebola patient may have entered Rwanda, suggesting the deadly virus could spread to...
U.N. demands release of abducted lawmaker and Haftar critic in eastern Libya
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) demanded on Thursday the immediate release of lawmaker, Siham Sergewa, and her husband who were reportedly abducted...