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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A 65-pound (29-kilogram) alligator snapping turtle with a face only its mother could love has found a new home at a Virginia zoo after freaking out residents in a northern Virginia suburb.

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned Tuesday that the U.S. economy faces a deep downturn with “significant uncertainty” about the timing and strength of a recovery.

LONDON — European Union regulators opened two investigations on Tuesday into Apple's mobile app store and payment platform over concerns its practices distort competition, opening a new front in the EU's battle against the dominance of big tech compa

BALTIMORE — American shoppers ramped up their spending on store purchases by a record 17.

LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel will host the first major Hollywood awards ceremony of the coronavirus pandemic — but just how the Emmys will be held remains cloudy. Kimmel, who is also producing the Sept.

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday that he is merging the British government's international development department into its foreign ministry to create a “super department” in charge of both diplomacy and aid.

The World Trade Organization has ruled Saudi Arabia failed to stop a broadcasting operation pirating sports coverage and blocked moves to shut it down in a proxy of the Gulf economic and diplomatic dispute with Qatar.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The first nationally distributed children’s series to feature an Alaska Native as the lead character has been awarded a prestigious Peabody Award.

WASHINGTON — American industry rebounded last month as factories began to reopen for the first time since being shut down by the coronavirus in Aprll.

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centres on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon.