Новости за 14.07.2015

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will deliver the central bank's mid-year economic outlook this week to Congress, where she will face grilling from House and Senate lawmakers.

The U.S.-led nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday dealt a heavy personal blow to Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, leaving him at odds with the international community and with few options for scuttling an...

At Cuba's new mega-port project west of Havana, shipping containers are stacked five-deep the length of its 2,300-foot (700-meter) dock alongside four massive, Chinese-built offloading cranes.

The Ninth Circuit Solicitor's Office says the suspect in the Emanuel AME Church shootings is expected in court this week for a hearing on whether documents in the case will be released to the media.

An attorney who has sued alleging that the state of South Carolina still operates a segregated system of higher education wants a federal court to add South Carolina State University as a defendant in the case.

Cupcake DownSouth, the local cupcakery that created the Charleston Love cupcake to benefit Emanuel AME,  said Tuesday it had raised more than $5,600 for the Hope Fund.

The small Iowa city of Van Meter has dropped plans for a raffle that would have let the winner shock an official with a stun gun.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s second-quarter profit rose 4 percent as the bank made up for lower revenue by cutting expenses.

A Charleston County Sheriff's deputy has been reinstated after authorities dropped an assault charge against her for lack of evidence.

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has been admitted to a Cape Town hospital for a persistent infection, his South African foundation said Tuesday.

Charleston County EMS Director Don Lundy has self-published a book and so far the reviews are mixed.

Uganda's president has started mediating talks between Burundi's government and opposition groups that are opposed to President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial bid for a third term.

By LINDA A. JOHNSON AP Business Writer Johnson & Johnson's recovering U.S. consumer health business, following years of recalls that kept Tylenol, Motrin and other marque brands off store shelves,...

The problem of exploding air bags could be widening beyond Japanese manufacturer Takata Corp.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier spent his Tuesday morning at SEC Media Days poking fun at some league rivals, discussing his football program and - of course - fending off questions about his advancing age.

Delays in Amtrak service and agricultural product shipping have eased across the Upper Midwest in part because weak oil prices have prompted a drilling slowdown in North Dakota, officials say.

Following a deadly listeria outbreak in ice cream, the Justice Department is warning food companies that they could face criminal and civil penalties if they poison their customers.

After fretting over a Greek bailout, a collapse in Chinese stocks and the timing of an interest rate increase, investors are hoping U.S. corporate earnings will bring more reassuring news this month.

A Massachusetts woman filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday accusing Wal-Mart of wrongly denying employee benefits for same-sex spouses.

A Florida woman says she was shot in the leg while sitting at a café on Independence Day, but she didn't realize it until doctors found the bullet five days later.

Residents of a Colorado Springs community are upset after a bear was found shot to death in the front yard of a home.

Rwandan lawmakers on Tuesday voted in support of a petition to remove presidential term limits from the country's constitution, starting a process that could see President Paul Kagame extend his rule beyond two terms.

Ukraine's prime minister pushed back against a pair of forces threatening to undermine his fragile government, likening members of Ukraine's parliament to "lunatics" while defending a nationalist militia that is...

Iran, the United States and other world powers struck a historic deal Tuesday to curb Iranian nuclear programs in an agreement aimed at easing the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran in the volatile Middle East. In exchange,...

The latest in closing arguments in the Colorado theater shooting case (all times local):