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New York (AFP) - A masked gunman shot dead a top US health insurance executive outside a New York hotel Wednesday in an apparently targeted hit, before fleeing on a...

New York (AFP) - General Motors announced Wednesday it will book more than $5 billion in losses and write-downs due to the restructuring of its China joint-venture. Facing heavy competition...

New York (AFP) - The chief executive of one of the United States's largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an...

Paris (AFP) - A French appeals court Wednesday confirmed the acquittal of French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski in a defamation case in which British actor Charlotte Lewis accused him of libel...

Syosset (United States) (AFP) - Hundreds of people paid an emotional tribute to a young US-Israeli soldier killed in the October 7 attack by Hamas and whose death was only...

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, a case with repercussions for similar state prohibitions...

Central Islip (United States) (AFP) - The partner of the ex-CEO of the Abercrombie and Fitch clothing line pleaded not guilty Tuesday in US federal court to charges of sex...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A Chinese man was arrested in California on Tuesday for allegedly exporting guns and ammunition to North Korea, the Justice Department said. Shenghua Wen,...

New York (AFP) - US consumers turned out in force in stores and online over the Thanksgiving weekend, a key stretch in the holiday shopping season, a leading retailer group...

New York (AFP) - Former Hollywood movie producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized after an "alarming blood test result," his lawyer said late Monday. Weinstein's attorney Imran...