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Moscow is making it clear it considers the eastern Mediterranean to be within its zone of interest.

Costs and enrollment in Medicaid are expected to slow during the 2016 fiscal year.

One Federal Reserve official said this week he did not "expect that it would be appropriate" to raise interest rates in 2015. He's got company.

Ahmed Mohamed, the American Muslim teen briefly arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb, met with Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has ruled for almost 26 years.

The handset is also joined by a silver titanium model, which comes with 32GB and 64GB storage sizes.

The new law could add as many as a million voters to the rolls by 2018.

Russian air power his backing up Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as they look to reclaim the city of Aleppo.

Russia has denied owning a drone that was shot down near to the Turkish border with Syria. Moscow claims all its drones are accounted for.

If the proposed ballot measure were to pass, it would require ammunition dealers to be licensed like gun dealers.

The Philippines and Vietnam remain vulnerable to Chinese cyberattacks, as the smaller nations challenge China's claims in the South China Sea.

FDA's move came as a setback for AstraZeneca, which has been trying to secure a place in the drug market by bringing in new treatments.

Deutsche Bank announced in September that it will close its investment banking operations in Russia, to “reduce complexity, costs, risks and capital consumption.”

The Volkswagen Group accounted for 23.3 percent of the European Union's auto sales in September — its lowest level in six months.

A U.S. official said Washington believes the unidentified drone shot down by Turkish warplanes near the Syrian border is of Russian origin.

The packaged food giant cut its 2015 outlook to around 4.5 percent, below its long-term model calling for 5 to 6 percent growth.

U.K.-based Team Dignitas controls two teams, but world championships rules dictate that it is allowed to manage only a single team in order to compete in the series.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said he plans to travel to the Middle East soon to try to calm the violence.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has denied South Korea’s request for transfer of key American technologies for its project to develop KF-X indigenous fighter jet.

As many as 270 people died after Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, while on its way from London to New York on Dec. 21, 1988.

While witnesses said they counted at least 42 dead, police officials put the casualty estimates at 14.

Kosovo national Ardit Feriz allegedly hacked into U.S. security data and provided information about military and federal employees to the Islamic State group in Syria.