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Facebook reports 4Q profit, user growth despite challenges

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook had a strong fourth quarter, making more money on advertising and adding more users despite challenges around regulation, privacy and efforts to fight election interference. I...

Jan 31, 2020

Regulators revisit environmental review for Line 3 pipeline

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota regulators opened a hearing Friday o n an updated environmental review for Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across the state, but most ...

Jan 31, 2020

Britain leaves the European Union, leaps into the unknown

LONDON - So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu. With little fuss and not much fanfare, Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership, taking a leap into the unknown in a h...

Jan 31, 2020

Fed chair sees China virus as possible risk to world economy

WASHINGTON - Just as the outlook for the global economy had been brightening in recent months, a new threat has suddenly emerged in the form of the viral outbreak in China. That was the cautionary mes...

Jan 31, 2020

Trump curbs immigration for 6 nations in election-year push

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-y...

Jan 31, 2020

Facebook fights spread of misinformation about virus online

Facebook says it's working to limit the spread of misinformation and potentially harmful content about the coronavirus as bogus claims about the ongoing outbreak circulate online. Kang-Xing Jin, Faceb...

Jan 31, 2020

Fed leaves key rate unchanged at low level amid global risks

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats, including from China's viral outbrea...

Jan 31, 2020

'I thought I was going to die.' Tenants flee high-rise fire

LOS ANGELES - Firefighters made a dramatic ladder rescue of a man who appeared about to jump from a burning Los Angeles apartment building on Wednesday and helicopters plucked people from the roof of ...

Jan 31, 2020

Weinstein rape accuser testifies about sexual advances

NEW YORK - A key accuser in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Friday that he made a series of unwelcome advances, once trying to kiss her as she tried to fight him off, then telling her she coul...

Jan 31, 2020

Putin pardons Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned an Israeli woman who had been jailed on drug charges, the Kremlin said Wednesday. A presidential decree ordering Naama Issachar's release on "hum...

Jan 31, 2020