Volkswagen Group's emissions scandal on Monday broadened to include a range of sport-utility vehicles - including luxury Audi and Porsche models - in a revelation that casts doubt on the company's past statements about the situation.
MOSCOW - The mystery deepened Monday over the weekend crash of a Russian charter plane on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt that killed all 224 aboard, with company executives ruling out technical or human error only to be upbraided by aviation officials ...
The debris that turned up on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean Saturday is indeed the cargo ship that vanished in a hurricane, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Monday.
BERLIN - The Vatican said Monday that it arrested two members of a papal reform commission on suspicion of leaking classified information, opening a week of intrigue as the Holy See braces for two potentially damaging books purporting to reveal inside ...
Jeb Bush is delivering a major speech Monday morning in Florida with the clear purpose of resetting a presidential campaign that has struggled mightily to gain any kind of traction in the 2016 race.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared victory as results reported by state-run TRT television showed that the ruling Justice and Development party won more than 49 per cent of the vote and was projected to get 316 seats in parliament. The preliminary ...
The Federal Reserve definitely should begin increasing interest rates and they likely will lift off in December. I believe they are behind the curve for reasons I will outline in this article.
After Mitt Romney won 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, the Republican Party made Hispanic outreach a key goal of 2016, making suspending Telemundo as a debate partner particularly problematic.
Further weather warnings have been issued as dense fog continues to cause disruption to flights across the UK. Heathrow cancelled 129 flights on Monday, while London City, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Belfast and Cardiff airports were also ...
A monthly record of 218,394 migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea in October, the UN says, almost as many as the total number of arrivals in 2014.
Smart Sheriff, a popular app in South Korea for monitoring children's online activities has been pulled. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has removed it from the Google Play store and is advising existing users to find alternatives.
The Mexican navy has rescued two Colombian and two Ecuadorean fishermen off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas. The fishermen said they had been adrift at sea for 30 days after their boat ran out of petrol.
Search giant Google has announced a date for the launch of its drone delivery service. Called Project Wing, the initiative aims to be delivering goods to consumers using the robot aircraft sometime in 2017.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey moved a step closer Sunday to realizing his ambition of establishing a strong presidential system of government, with him at its head, when his Justice and Development Party, or A.K.
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 70-year-old man in northern Israel before being shot by officers, police said Monday just hours after another Palestinian knifed several people, including an 80-year-old woman, in a stabbing spree near ...
Australia is dropping knights and dames from its list of honors. “The Cabinet recently considered the Order of Australia, in this its 40th anniversary year, and agreed that Knights and Dames are not appropriate in our modern honors system,” Prime ...
Nepal is edging closer to a humanitarian crisis potentially even bigger than the massive earthquake that struck in April. This time, however, it's a political crisis rooted in Nepal's social divisions.
It all depends on how you look at it. On Monday, the presidents of France and China stood side by side to emphasize their commitment to tackling climate change, agreeing that countries signing on to a proposed global climate pact should take stock of ...
DUBAI Iran said on Monday it would quit Syria peace talks if it found them unconstructive, citing the "negative role" of Saudi Arabia, in the latest twist in a spat between the regional rivals that bodes ill for efforts to ease turmoil across the ...
An eccentric history buff was found guilty Monday of killing three prominent Alexandria residents over the course of a decade - an outcome that formally solves one of the D.C.
A Texas mother put ant poison in a spoon and tried to feed it to her 4-year-old son, according to Dallas police. When he refused to open his mouth, authorities said, she slapped his face and force-fed him.
On Monday, President Obama is announcing a new order to reduce potential discrimination against former convicts in the hiring process for federal government employees.
CLEVELAND Ohio voters will decide Tuesday on whether to become the first Midwestern state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, though a rival ballot measure could kill the law before it takes effect.
Mike Hammond, who co-founded computer maker Gateway in an Iowa farmhouse in 1985 and helped turn it into an American success story by shipping PCs straight to customers in boxes with a spotted-cow design, has died at age 53.
An armed bystander who fatally shot a man accused of trying to rob a Chicago store on Halloween night with a paintball gun probably won't be charged, police said Monday.
In 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) articulated what was a general belief among Democrats: the Affordable Care Act would help the party.
If Hollywood wanted a script about the inexorable decline of a corporate icon, it might look to Hewlett-Packard for inspiration. Once one of Silicon Valley's most respected companies, HP officially split itself in two on Sunday, betting that the ...
NEW YORK - New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger says a successor will be chosen within two years. He said Monday in a "State of the Times" speech to employees that the board, senior management and family trustees would be involved in ...
... * ConAgra bought business in 2013 for $5.1 bln. * TreeHouse to fund deal with new debt, stock. * ConAgra shares up 1.7 percent; TreeHouse down 5.6 percent (Adds analyst comment, company comment and updates share price).
WASHINGTON U.S. construction spending rose in September to the highest level in 7-1/2 years as both private and public outlays increased, suggesting a modest upward revision to the third-quarter GDP growth estimate.
George Soros's firm pulled almost $500 million from an account run by Bill Gross, money it invested last year after the bond manager left Pacific Investment Management Co.
Visa Inc (V.N) said on Monday it would buy former subsidiary Visa Europe Ltd for up to $23.3 billion in a deal that will give the world's largest payments network a chance to cut costs over the long term and raise fees in the second-biggest card market.
Apple, however, believes keeping operating systems separate is a better idea. Google and Apple may agree on a few things, but when it comes to merging operating systems, they're worlds apart.
Thinking that there won't be any big T-Mobile news until Un-carrier X next week? Think again. T-Mobile today surprised us all with another Un-carrier Amped move.
Apple is shaving $50 off the price of its Apple Watch when the wearable is purchased with a new Apple iPhone. Apple is temporarily trimming the price of its Apple Watch by $50 when someone buys it with a new Apple iPhone, an uncommon discount from the ...
Leah Remini says that she and Katie Holmes were “fighting, for lack of a better a word” when they were both members of the Church of Scientology, and Holmes issued a statement recently vaguely addressing Remini's comments: “I regret having upset Leah ...
By now the whole world knows that crime novelist Robert Galbraith is the pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, but the Harry Potter writer admitted that, in the beginning, not even her editor knew.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The jersey that Eric Hosmer wore in the decisive game of the World Series is headed to the Hall of Fame. So is the glove Salvador Perez used, the spikes Lorenzo Cain laced up and the bat that third baseman Mike Moustakas took ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In addition to a one-game suspension, Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett will also lose his scholarship for a term as part of his discipline for his arrest during the bye week, Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer said Monday.
BASEL, Switzerland - Like many dads, Roger Federer is talking with his family about how to spend Christmas. But unlike most, the father-of-four has the 2017 holidays on his mind - on the eve of the tennis season when he will turn 36.
MIAMI (AP) -- Moments into his introductory news conference with the Miami Marlins, Don Mattingly peeled off his sport coat to try on a team jersey for the cameras.
SEATTLE -- An E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle restaurants in Washington state and Oregon has sickened nearly two dozen people in the third outbreak of foodborne illness at the popular chain this year.
A team of international scientists heads to an Antarctica station in January. (The Associated Press). Print Email · Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive By Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive The Oregonian Email the author | Follow on Twitter
The International Space Station has plenty to celebrate. Not only did astronaut Scott Kelly set the American record for continuous days in space last week but the space station where he resides turned 15 on Monday.
One of the most mysterious whales in the ocean has been captured on film for the first time. In fact, the footage comes from the first-ever confirmed observations of the species in the wild.
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