LONDON (AP) — Facebook has appealed its 500,000-pound ($644,000) fine for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, arguing that U.K regulators failed to prove that British users were…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff says when a man who may have committed as many as 90 homicides recently confessed to a killing he first investigated as a rookie 40 years ago, it gave…
NEW YORK (AP) — No location is more central to the iconography of the Western than Monument Valley. Its majestic sandstone buttes, a revolving backdrop for John Ford, have been the setting for countless stagecoach…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In rare rebuttal, Chief Justice Roberts rejects Trump criticism of federal judges, praises independent judiciary.
Long-term U.S. mortgage rates slid this week but are still much higher than they were a year ago, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac. This week Last week Year ago 30-year fixed 4.81 percent 4.94…
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LONDON (AP) — Auctioneer Sotheby’s says it plans to sell a Rembrandt portrait with a difference: the artist’s fingerprints may be preserved in the paint. George Gordon, Sotheby’s co-chairman of Old Masters, says the prints…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates recorded the biggest drop in nearly four years this week, but remain much higher than they were a year ago. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average rate…
Federal lawsuits filed by Montgomery and Prince George’s counties claim banks aimed to bilk black and Latino borrowers by guiding them toward higher-cost, subprime mortgage loans — considered a root cause of the 2010 foreclosure crisis.
Maryland’s package to Amazon.com to lure HQ2 to Montgomery County included $2.8 billion in refundable state income tax credits spread out over 10 years, as well as $2.4 billion in new transportation funding.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus Orthodox Church official says a rare, 1.500 year-old mosaic depicting Saint Mark has joined other repatriated pieces that were looted from the ethnically split island nation’s breakaway north. Together…
The company failing to end a 14-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico can be required to perform more underwater drilling and excavation work to stop the flow of crude, a federal regulatory board has ruled.