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Progress reported in contract talks between GM, union

DETROIT - Faced with weakening sales, a deteriorating global economy and an unpredictable trade war, General Motors and striking auto workers appeared to be making progress Tuesday toward a four-year ...

Sep 19, 2019

Trump says gun negotiations going 'very slowly'

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is pouring cold water on prospects for a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, even as his aides circulate a draft plan on Capitol Hill. Trump tells Fox News in...

Sep 19, 2019

Renzi splits Italy's Democrats, shaking govt coalition

ROME - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has left the ruling Democratic Party to set up a new centrist force, in a risky move that further weakens the already shaky government forged only two weeks ...

Sep 19, 2019

Bus crashes carrying country singer Josh Turner's road crew

SHANDON, Calif. - Authorities in central California say a passenger bus has crashed while carrying the road crew for country and gospel singer Josh Turner, leaving one dead and seven injured. Turner a...

Sep 19, 2019

Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, pilot hits power line

PARIS - A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after h...

Sep 19, 2019

Authorities: Separate attacks in Afghanistan kill 48

KABUL - Separate attacks by suicide bombers - one targeting President Ashraf Ghani's election rally and a second that ripped through the centre of the Afghan capital - killed at least 48 people and wo...

Sep 19, 2019

Trump strains to balance diplomacy, military threat to Iran

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration tried to balance diplomacy with fresh talk of military action Tuesday in response to the fiery missile and drone attack on the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industr...

Sep 18, 2019

UAE joins US-led coalition to protect Mideast waterways

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates says it has joined a U.S.-led coalition to protect waterways across the Mideast after an attack on Saudi oil installations. The state-run WAM new...

Sep 18, 2019

Suicide bomb in southern Afghanistan, kills at least 20

KABUL - An Afghan official says a powerful suicide truck bombing outside a hospital in the capital of southern Zabul province has killed at least 20 and injured as many as 90 others. The head of the Z...

Sep 18, 2019

Netanyahu, rightist allies appear to fall short of majority

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of securing a parliamentary majority with his natural religious and nationalist allies in national elections Tuesday, partial results i...

Sep 18, 2019