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The Dow Jones dropped nearly 800 points on Tuesday, nearly a three percent plunge. The S&P 500 declined 2.5%, while the Nasdaq tumbled 3%. Big tech stocks fell sharply. Apple ( AAPL ), Amazon ( AMZN ) and Alphabet ( GOOGL ) lost

On Monday it was announced that Nexstar Media Group Inc. has agreed to buy Tribune Media Co. in a $4.1-billion deal, creating the nation’s largest owner of local television stations. Texas-based Nexstar, composed of 174 stations, including

The Centers for Disease Control say cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) have peaked for the year; however they still have not determined the cause of the polio-like, paralyzing illness. Cases of AFM continued to pop up

Funeral ceremonies for former President George H.W. Bush are slated to begin Monday in Houston and then continue in Washington, D.C. before returning for a service followed by burial in College Station, according to the official schedule

Afghan officials and Taliban members said on Sunday that a top commander of the Taliban was killed in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand in a joint operation by Afghan and US Special Forces. Helmand provincial governor Mohammad

On Thursday, President Donald Trump said he was canceling a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to take place during the upcoming summit for the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine

President Trump’s longtime former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about the Russia investigation. The deal is the second that Cohen has reached with federal prosecutors and represents a potential blow to

House Democrats selected Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as the nominee for speaker of the House on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting with the caucus. The nomination marks a win for Pelosi in her bid to reclaim the

Efforts by GOP Sen. Jeff Flake and Democratic Sens. Chris Coons and Cory Booker to force a full vote on a bill designed to protect special counsel Robert Mueller was blocked Wednesday. Utah’s Republican Sen. Mike Lee

NASA’s InSight lander launched early this year, and finally arrived at Mars, successfully landing on the planet’s surface. Now the robot has shot back its very first photos of its landing site. The first image, a dust-covered