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Washington (AFP) - A top contender to run the US Federal Reserve threw his support Thursday behind a quarter-point rate cut later this month, claiming he believed inflation would soon...

London (AFP) - Britain's Prince Andrew behaved as if having sex with the then 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre was his "birthright", according to allegations in her posthumous memoir. In "Nobody's Girl:...

New York (AFP) - United Airlines reported a slight dip in profits Wednesday as operating expenses ticked higher, adding that a strengthening demand outlook would boost fourth-quarter results. The big...

Washington (AFP) - Flawed engineering and inadequate testing contributed to the catastrophic implosion of a private submersible during a 2023 expedition to the Titanic wreckage, the US National Transportation Safety...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Chris Anderson took over TED 25 years ago, when the internet was young and optimism abounded about the future it could deliver. Since then,...

Washington (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said he was working to rally the private sector around a new $20 billion "facility" to support Argentina's embattled economy....

Paris (AFP) - FIFA said on Wednesday it hoped all 16 host cities will be "ready" to stage games at the 2026 World Cup finals after US President Donald Trump...

(AFP) - Stocks mostly rose and the dollar retreated Wednesday on hopes for further US interest rate cuts and a solid set of company earnings. Gold surged to a new...

New York (AFP) - Grammy-winning musician D'Angelo has died at the age of 51 after "a prolonged and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer," his family told US media Tuesday. The...

Havana (AFP) - Cuba's opposition, browbeaten by the communist government, has been further weakened by the US exile of dissident figurehead Jose Daniel Ferrer, colleagues and analysts say. After refusing...