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US productivity increases 4.9% in third quarter

WASHINGTON - U.S. productivity increased between July and September but at a slower pace than in the previous quarter. Productivity advanced 4.9% in the third quarter, following an even larger 10.6% s...

Nov 05, 2020

751,000 seek US jobless benefits as virus hobbles economy

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of t...

Nov 05, 2020

Kosovo president resigns to face war crimes charges

PRISTINA, Kosovo - Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, resigned on Thursday in order to face charges for war crimes and c...

Nov 05, 2020

Democrats' Senate drive halted by GOP; key races undecided

WASHINGTON - Democrats faced increasingly long odds as the battle for Senate control hangs in balance, and Republicans brushed back multiple challengers to protect their majority. Still, it was too so...

Nov 04, 2020

With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentages points considered a public drubbing. In a state famous for razor-thin margins, the size of former Vice-President Joe B...

Nov 04, 2020

EXPLAINER: States still in play and what makes them that way

WASHINGTON - A handful of pivotal states remained in play Wednesday in the tightly contested U.S. presidential race. Here, The Associated Press reviews them and examines the reasons why they could sti...

Nov 04, 2020

Trump sues in 3 states, laying ground for contesting outcome

WASHINGTON - As Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, President Donald Trump's campaign put into action the legal strategy the president ha...

Nov 04, 2020

Asia Today: India's virus cases jump on New Delhi's 3rd wave

NEW DELHI - India's coronavirus outbreak rose by more than 50,000 cases Thursday amid a surging third wave of infections in the capital. The Health Ministry also reported another 704 fatalities in the...

Nov 04, 2020

World waits nervously, impatiently for US election result

From Ford Model T cars that popped off the assembly line in just 90 minutes to 60-second service for burgers, the United States has long had a major hand in making the world a frenetic and impatient p...

Nov 04, 2020

Claim that Sharpie pens ruin Arizona ballots misses the mark

As states across the U.S. release vote totals for the presidential election, some social media users are falsely claiming that ballots are being invalidated in Arizona. The supposed culprit: Sharpie m...

Nov 04, 2020