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(AFP) - A growing measles outbreak in west Texas has infected 48 people, according to official state data released Friday -- the latest sign that the once-vanquished childhood disease is...

Washington (AFP) - US retail sales plunged by the most in almost two years in January -- a bigger drop than forecast and one that follows an unexpected uptick in...

Washington (AFP) - US retail sales plunged by the most in almost two years last month as cold weather hit the country alongside wildfires in California, data showed Friday, reflecting...

Washington (AFP) - A federal judge has ordered a temporary lift on a freeze on funding to US aid and development programs ordered by President Donald Trump's administration, court documents...

Taipei (AFP) - Taiwan will boost investment in the United States and on its own defences, President Lai Ching-te said Friday, as Taipei seeks to head off US President Donald...

Washington (AFP) - The Associated Press said Thursday its reporter was barred from a White House event for the third day straight, in a mushrooming row over its refusal to...

Washington (AFP) - Two men convicted of murder, including one who spent more than 25 years on Death Row, were executed by lethal injection in the southern US states of...

(AFP) - Newly confirmed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A monster rainstorm was drenching southern California on Thursday, with officials in Los Angeles readying for flooding and landslides in areas burned by last...

Washington (AFP) - Two Estonian nationals have pleaded guilty to defrauding hundreds of thousands of people around the world in a $577 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, the Justice Department said...