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Girls are bombarded on social media with advice from influencers touting elaborate skin care routines with high-priced serums, mists and creams

Japan is a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death

Young girls are buying up anti-aging products they see promoted on social media, with harmful effects for their skin — and their mental health

Two missiles suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden

The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The move is in response to the revival of a uranium m...

A New Jersey judge has ruled that smoking will be allowed to continue in Atlantic City’s casinos

Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday that they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools

Stocks on Wall Street bounced back from a midafternoon fade Friday, and the market closed out its fourth straight winning month with solid gains

U.S. regulators have cleared a third updated COVID-19 vaccine for this fall, shots made by Novavax Inc. The Food and Drug Administration cleared updated shots made by Novavax on Friday

A nearly century-old Oklahoma company that supplies stock for rodeos had as many as 70 horses die a week ago after receiving what an owner believes is tainted feed

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pledging to scrutinize contract for deed lending, a form of alternative or seller financing in which a private seller or investor group comes to a loan agreement with a buyer without many of the typical banki...

Passengers who bought cabins for a 3 1/2-year round-the-world cruise have been waiting months for the vessel to depart

Two Minnesota women are charged with organizing thefts of several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise from a Lululemon store in Minneapolis, and then funneling the stolen goods through a nail salon

Every day, millions of people stream music on Spotify

The Teamsters union that represents workers at both of Canada's largest freight railroads has filed the lawsuits it promised challenging the orders that forced employees back to work and got the trains moving again

Canadian rail union says it has filed promised lawsuits challenging back-to-work orders

An inflation measure closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained low last month, extending a trend of cooling price increases that clears the way for the Fed to start cutting its key interest rate next month for the first time in 4 1/2 years

Federal Reserve's favored inflation gauge shows price pressures easing as rate cuts near

Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states

Japan’s Defense Ministry has sought a record 8.5 trillion yen or $59 billion budget for the next year to fortify its deterrence on southwestern islands against China’s increasing threat

Inflation is down in Europe

Inflation in the 20 EU countries that use the euro falls to 2.2%, opening way for a central bank rate cut in September

Stocks on Wall Street bounced back from a midafternoon fade Friday, and the market closed out its fourth straight winning month with solid gains

The National Basketball Association formalized its giving over the past four years through a new $300 million grantmaking arm

Christina Hernon was saved by a doctor at a local hospital when she was 5

By not submitting to a press interview in the month since becoming the Democratic choice for president, Kamala Harris set the stakes high for her talk with CNN's Dana Bash

Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern California in 2022

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice could shut down the local operation of X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn’t name a legal representative

French President Emmanuel Macron is defending his government’s decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov

Stocks closed with mixed results on Wall Street after some late-day selling

Records show that a Boar's Head deli meat plant in Virginia tied to a deadly food poisoning outbreak repeatedly violated federal regulations

Strong growth for stocks on Wall Street this year have helped juice gains for savers with retirement accounts

Nippon Steel Corp. is raising its capital commitment by more than $1 billion to spend on U.S. Steel's plants amid entrenched political and labor opposition to the Japanese company’s acquisition of the American steelmaker

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the U.S. Postal Service is ready for a flood of election mail

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released footage showing that they boarded and intentionally set explosives aboard a Greek-flagged tanker that was earlier abandoned after they repeatedly attacked it, putting the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased for the second week in a row and remains at its lowest level in more than a year

Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased to 6.35% this week, the lowest level in more than a year

Poland’s electoral authority says that the former governing nationalist conservative party violated campaign funding rules in the 2023 parliamentary vote

The Consumer Product and Safety Commission says people should immediately throw out a magnetic game because it poses serious ingestion for children

Maryland transportation leaders have approved a contract for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge several months after it collapsed under the impact of a wayward container ship

The convictions of two Hong Kong journalists who led a now-shuttered online news outlet have deepened concerns of media groups and foreign governments over the city’s press freedom

Jaguar is telling owners of about 3,000 electric SUVs to park them outdoors and away from structures due to the risk of battery fires

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as the U.S. labor market remains healthy in the face of high interest rates

The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said in an upgrade of its initial assessment

Applications for jobless benefits fell modestly last week as US labor market remains healthy amid high interest rates

US economic growth for last quarter is revised up to a solid 3% annual rate

Colman Domingo has implicitly invited audiences to join his journey of racial healing across a Hollywood career spent largely in supporting roles

Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a former national police chief in connection with an alleged cover-up of a 2012 crash involving an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune that killed a police officer

Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, reported another quarterly drop in sales due to Americans pulling back on purchases of appliances and consumer-electronics gadgets to focus on essentials

Best Buy reports another quarterly sales drop as consumer electronics retailer faces cautious spending on gadgets