2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (240+ words) The central bank will close out its two-day meeting on Wednesday and could raise its benchmark interest rate in an effort to tame stubbornly high inflation. Wall Street will also get an update Wednesday on U.S. retail sales for August. That…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (222+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (160+ words) MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Norbert formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean and wasn’t threatening land, forecasters said. The storm was about 685 miles (1,102 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (541+ words) August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer scientists have measured. Last month the world averaged 62.53 degrees Fahrenheit (16.96 degrees Celsius), which technically was one-hundredth of a degree Celsius more…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (21+ words) WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says oil prices that spiked because of Iran war likely won't come down until after US midterm elections....

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (21+ words) NEW YORK (AP) — Crude climbs back above $100 a barrel after attacks on oil facilities and tankers in the Middle East....

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (279+ words) He said the last message from the boat was received by relatives of a journalist on board at 6:13 p.m. Monday, saying the group had arrived in the waters around Anak Krakatau. They have not been heard from since. Their last known…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (721+ words) But climate warming is dismantling the picture at alarming speed. “We weep for our mountain, the way it’s changing. It hits us in the gut,” said Stéphane Bozon, a deputy mayor in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, a French town at the foot of…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (219+ words) The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on additional aspects of Iran’s aviation industry, targeting more than two dozen commercial and private airlines as well as foreign cargo service providers in its new push to isolate Tehran from its remaining…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (340+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to ban the sale of aircraft from Canada’s Bombardier unless it manufactures planes in the United States. In response, the maker of private jets noted that many components for its planes, including the wings, are…...