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New York (AFP) - US authorities said Wednesday they had charged a member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld with handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell...

New York (AFP) - Boeing announced Wednesday that the head of its 737 MAX program is departing the aviation giant less than two months after a major safety incident temporarily...

Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve was divided in January over the risks of cutting interest rates too soon or too late, although most members voiced concern about moving...

New York (AFP) - A Texas therapist was sentenced to three months in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to supplying performance-enhancing drugs to Olympic athletes including banned Nigerian sprinter...

Los Angeles (AFP) - A Utah mother-of-six who doled out parenting advice on a popular YouTube channel has been sentenced to prison for abusing her children, holding two of them...

New York (AFP) - The alleged murderers of Jam Master Jay were executioners who ambushed the Run-DMC member as part of a drug dispute, US prosecutors told jurors Tuesday during...

Washington (AFP) - Two men have been charged with murder over the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade which left one person dead and 22 wounded, officials...

(AFP) - An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos outside the womb are "children" has drawn criticism from the White House and the top US infertility association, which called...

New York (AFP) - Capital One's proposed merger with the US credit card specialist Discover has reshuffled the deck in a fast-growing sector in the United States, where cash is...

New York (AFP) - A leg was found on New York subway tracks over the weekend and an investigation is underway to discover the origins of the dismembered limb, the...