News Corp. buys Houghton Mifflin Harcourt books division Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is buying Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s book-publishing division, with titles by J By The Associated Press March 29, 2021, 4:26 PM • 3 min read Share to Facebook Sh...

New Mexico sues US over proposed nuclear waste storage plans New Mexico is suing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission over concerns that the federal agency hasn’t done enough to vet plans for a multibillion-dollar facility to store spent nuclear fue...

Biden wants infrastructure package approved over summer President Joe Biden is set to unveil the first part of his sweeping multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan, aiming for passage over the summer By JONATHAN LEMIRE, LISA MASCARO and JOSH BOAK Assoc...

WHO report: COVID likely 1st jumped into humans from animals A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak of th...

Paris court convicts, fines pharma firm for deadly diet pill A Paris court has handed hundreds of millions of euros in damages and fines to a French pharmaceutical company for its role in one of the nation’s biggest modern health scandals By NICOLAS V...

A key to bridging the political divide: Sit down and talk? One Small Step is among a growing number of nonprofit initiatives whose aim is to narrow America’s increasingly toxic political divide By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer March 29, 2021, 2:51 P...

The Associated Press FILE - In this Wednesday, April 16, 1997 file photo, Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino shakes hands with OSCE representative Austrian Franz Vranitzky, in Tirana. Bashkim Fino, who was appointed prime minister to shepherd Albania...

Rebels leave beheaded bodies in streets of Mozambique town Fierce fighting for control of Mozambique’s strategic northern town of Palma is continuing for a sixth day, with heavily armed rebels fighting army, police and a private military outfit in sev...

AP source: VW plans brand-name change to 'Voltswagen' in US Volkswagen plans to change its brand name in the United States to “Voltswagen” as its shifts its production increasingly toward electric vehicles and tries to distance itself from an emissi...

With European demand surged amid shipping delay at sea, transcontinental rail freight from China to Europe saw a sharp rise, the Financial Times (FT) newspaper reported Monday. The number of China-Europe freight trains hit 1,165 in January, up 66 percen...