UNITED STATES

Purchases made on Thanksgiving Day from desktop computers rose 9 percent this year, again topping $1 billion.

Citizens called for their government to refrain from intervening in Syria, fearing retaliatory attacks similar to the Paris massacre.

Now Iraqi government forces, backed by U.S. advisers and airstrikes, can advance on the city from two fronts.

Almost daily Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings have killed 19 Israelis and one U.S. citizen since Oct. 1.

Nearly a third of office workers said in a poll that their company would not host a celebration this year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended talks with EU institutions after a decision to label Israeli settlement products.

“At this point, I see the U.S. economy as performing well,” said Janet Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve.

Ben Carson says Syrian refugees want to be repatriated, not move to the United States or Europe.

Cable companies aren't the only ones negatively affected by the shift to streaming television.

Officer William Porter, 26, is the first of six officers scheduled for separate trials for the death in April of Freddie Gray.

The body of Lt Col Oleg Peshkov was received by Turkey late Saturday and will be handed over to Russian officials Sunday.

Delayed by nearly a decade, the first Chinese narrow-body commercial jet was delivered by COMAC Sunday to Chengdu Airlines.

Participants at the Paris climate change summit will be under pressure to avoid repeating the failure of the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen.

Almost daily Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings have killed 19 Israelis and one U.S. citizen since Oct. 1.

Ahead of the COP 21 conference, scheduled to begin Monday, activists want world leaders to do more to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit warming.

South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbor, underlining the challenges other countries face in dealing with a far larger influx of Syrian refugees.

As shoppers increasingly do their holiday shopping online, retailers have been tweaking the meaning of Black Friday and adjusting their expectations.

Despite the lack of incentives from American Express, some small shops reported an uptick in customers on the holiday.

A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist was shot in the head and killed on Saturday amid a period of unrest in Turkey's Kurdish southeast.

Carson toured a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan Saturday.

U.S. President Barack Obama took his daughters shopping for books and sweet treats on Small Business Saturday.