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WASHINGTON (AP) — Microchip Technology Inc. says it has a deal to acquire rival chipmaker Atmel for roughly $3.56 billion in cash and stock. Atmel Cor...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Oneida Indians are asking a state court to throw out a license recently granted to a rival casino being built in upstate New Y...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are inching higher Tuesday after sharp sell-offs last week. Strong results from investment bank Morgan Stanley are boostin...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A picturesque Colorado river with a peculiar French name is the latest prize in the West's water wars, where wilderness adv...

LONDON (AP) — It's the dark days of one of the rainiest British winters on record. So some London commuters were surprised to hear their trains had be...

PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — Spain's Princess Cristina spent 12 hours in court Monday at the start of her landmark criminal case, confronting accus...

U.S. stocks struggled to end mostly higher, but oil and gas companies were hit by another plunge in the price of crude. Chevron lost 2 percent and Exx...

LONDON (AP) — Tributes have poured in for singer David Bowie, who died Sunday aged 69. Politicians, entertainers, actors and astronauts have expressed...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The "Star Wars" version of Monopoly will add a game piece based on the female character Rey after an 8-year-old girl wrote to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign jumped at a chance Friday to portray rival Sen. Bernie Sanders as being at odds with Preside...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials...

LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — Seventeen miners spent a frigid night in a broken-down elevator in America's deepest salt mine, huddling with heat packs and blan...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening sharply lower as worries intensify about China's economy and dropping oil prices. China's main stock index plu...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are fighting for the favor of many of the same undecided voters across Iowa, where even some of the...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has suspended the tax fraud and money laundering trial of Guy Wildenstein, the French-American heir of a New York art-deali...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest developments surrounding the consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas known as CES (all times local): 10:30 a.m. Netflix sub...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks dropped Wednesday as investors fretted about signs of belligerence from North Korea and more weakening of China's economy,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Monsanto said Wednesday it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales o...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A private autopsy is planned at hospital expense to determine how a 20-year-old college freshman died while on life-support in the m...