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Gap CEO steps down amid slumping sales

NEW YORK - Gap's announced Thursday that CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company struggles to turn around a long-standing sales slump. The San Francisco-based retailer also slashed its earnings o...

Nov 07, 2019

Hopes rise that lifting tariffs could allow US-China accord

BEIJING - The prospects for a preliminary breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war improved Thursday after the two sides agreed to reduce some punitive tariffs on each other's goods, though the full e...

Nov 07, 2019

Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head

WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water district that had employed Secretary David Bernhardt as ...

Nov 07, 2019

Michael Bloomberg opens door to 2020 presidential campaign

WASHINGTON - Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, is opening the door to a 2020 presidential campaign. Bloomberg announced earlier this year that he would not seek the Dem...

Nov 07, 2019

Potential McConnell opponent goes off air after complaint

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky radio host who is considering a run against U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is off the air after Republicans accused him of campaign violations. Matt Jones, ho...

Nov 07, 2019

Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86

NEW ORLEANS - Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, has died. He was...

Nov 07, 2019

Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate's execution

HOUSTON - Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who will face lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says he didn't commit are mounting a final push in the courts and on social media...

Nov 07, 2019

Woman fired over access to leaked tape of ABC's Amy Robach

NEW YORK - A CBS News employee has lost her job following reports that she may have been involved in the leak of video that showed ABC's Amy Robach complaining that her bosses didn't run a story about...

Nov 07, 2019

Lobsterman rescues deer trapped in water off Maine coast

HARRINGTON, Maine - A Maine lobsterman hauled in an unusual catch 5 miles off the coast - a live deer. Ren Dorr says he was setting traps when he saw a young deer Monday morning. He says the deer had ...

Nov 07, 2019

Judge orders Trump to pay $2M for charity foundation misuse

NEW YORK - A New York judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities to resolve a lawsuit alleging he misused his own charitable foundation to further his ...

Nov 07, 2019