BAGHDAD — A widespread power outage hit Iraq on Friday as temperatures reached scorching levels, affecting millions of Iraqis, including those in affluent areas in […]

TULELAKE, Calif. — Ben DuVal knelt in a barren field near the California-Oregon state line and scooped up a handful of parched soil as dust […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit widened in May to $71.2 billion as a small increase in exports was offset by a bigger rise in […]

The largest maker of concrete manhole cover rings in the Midwest has been sold to Solheim Investment Partners, a Minneapolis-based private equity firm. Eull’s Manufacturing […]

BUCHAREST — An explosion at Romania’s largest oil refinery outside the port city of Constanta on Friday killed one person and injured at least four, […]

TOKYO — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday, though markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong declined a day after the Chinese Communist Party […]

The Congressional Budget Office says that the federal budget deficit will again hit $3 trillion this year, $745 billion more than its estimate five months […]

Stocks are closing modestly higher Thursday, adding to the gains that helped the market close out its best first half of a year since the […]

WASHINGTON — Emergency crews responded Thursday to a report of a building under construction that collapsed in the nation’s capital. Several people were reported to […]

ATHENS, Greece — A leading member of Greece’s extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party has been arrested in Athens, nearly nine months after he disappeared before […]