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The recall, which began on Dec. 14, affects up to 185 vehicles manufactured from Sept. 8 and Nov. 11, 2015.

More shoppers now say they plan to shop on the day after Christmas than on the day after Thanksgiving, aka Black Friday.

As Iraqi troops come close to reclaiming Ramadi, the Baghdad government announces Mosul is next on its Islamic State group hit list.

Some U.S. consumers confirmed via social media their packages arrived Friday, despite the extreme weather in multiple regions of the country.

The money made on exit deals amounted to about $64 billion in the first 11 months of this year and about $94 billion in all of last year, one analyst says.

Six Kurdish militants and one Turkish soldier were killed during fighting in the town of Cizre Friday.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with China, India and Russia as its largest shareholders among its more than 50 members, was formally established in Beijing Friday.

The deadliest landslide in American history that occurred in the Washington town of Oso last year was not an anomaly, according to a new study.

Temperatures were unseasonably warm in the U.S. Northeast and unseasonably cool in Southern California, while deadly tornadoes wreaked havoc in the South.

In the wake of increasing backlash against adherents of Islam, members of other faiths are expressing solidarity.

On Christmas Eve, the pontiff rebuked the excesses of modern society, reminding Roman Catholics to “act soberly.”

No matter what plausible explanations emerge for objects in the sky, some people are convinced that space aliens exist.

The raids are designed to thwart future illegal immigration from Central America where drought and violence have displaced people.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and units of Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings PLC and Wells Fargo & Co. were named in the lawsuits.

More than 30 years after their ordeal, Americans held captive in Iran between 1979 and 1981 will receive as much as $4.4 million each.

Share prices closed lower for Thursday's holiday-shortened session, while oil prices moved up a little.

Christmas came early for the front-runners in the races for the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential nominations.

The U.S. Treasury secretary spoke Thursday ahead of a scheduled Jan. 5 hearing on Capitol Hill on the territory's financial crisis.

Dell Inc. reportedly is hoping Perot Systems will fetch more than $5 billion, which would help fund its acquisition of EMC Corp.

The proposed settlement of a class-action suit centered on insider trading was disclosed in papers filed with a federal court in New York.

"China can significantly help the regional peace and stability by becoming more active in the fight against the Islamic State," an Iranian official says.