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G20 poverty summit struggles as key finance leaders skip meeting
No-shows, aid cuts mar G20 meet on global poverty

CAPE TOWN, South Africa: An international summit on global poverty faced setbacks this week as key finance leaders skipped the G20...

Home Depot sees sales rebound in Q4 after two-year slump
Home Depot snaps same-store sales slump in Q4 with demand improving

ATLANTA, Georgia: After two years of declining same-store sales, Home Depot finally saw a turnaround in the fourth quarter, fueled...

U.S. stocks rally despite Trump doubling-down on tariffs
Dow Jones closes up 601 points Friday, Nasdaq Composite 303 points

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks rallied on Friday as economic data showed the U.S. Federal Reserve has likely tamed inflation. The...

Personal Consumption Expenditures price index in January improves slightly
Consumption index confirms U.S. inflation under control

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Federal Reserve seemingly has inflation under control with the latest econbomic data confirming little push...

Arctic’s Svalbard Seed Vault to receive 14,000 new samples
Arctic doomsday seed vault gets more than 14,000 new samples

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A remote Arctic facility designed to preserve the world's agricultural diversity is set to receive a major new...

BP shifts focus back to fossil fuels, scaling down renewable goals
BP to end renewables goals, return focus to fossil fuels

LONON, U.K.: British Petroleum is set to abandon its ambitious renewable energy expansion targets in favor of a stronger focus on fossil...

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Monkey business has global health authorities hopping
Multi-billion-dollar monkey-laundering industry exposed

Ramadewa looked at the numerous troops of monkeys. They were at ease and happy and showed their liveliness. All their movements, their...

USDA scholarship for underserved students from Black colleges on hold
USDA scholarship for students at historically Black colleges suspended

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A U.S. government scholarship program designed to help students from underserved and rural areas attend historically...

Republican Texas AG pushes stricter transgender policy in NCAA
Texas AG urges NCAA to mandate gender testing for women's sports

LUBBOCK, Texas: The Republican attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, wants the NCAA to strengthen its transgender athlete policy by...

5 officers charged as police department in Alabama faces closure
Grand Jury wants police department in Alabama closed for corruption

HANCEVILLE, Alabama: A grand jury has recommended shutting down a small police department in Alabama due to widespread corruption after...

Cloud9 claim opening win at CDL Stage 2 Minor
Cloud9 claim opening win at CDL Stage 2 Minor

(Photo credit: Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC) Cloud9 New York fended off the Minnesota Rokkr's...

Blues ride hot streak into matchup with Kings
Blues ride hot streak into matchup with Kings

(Photo credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images) The St. Louis Blues are finally seeing a payoff for their progress made since Jim Montgomery...