Reuters

Nearly a fifth of cases filed so far were brought in California, while the California Air Resources Board played a key role in uncovering VW's emissions fraud.

The merger would be followed by a three-way breakup of the combined company, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

Prosper, a San Francisco online lender, made the $28,500 loan to Syed Farook, a source said.

The executive most recently served as president of Coca-Cola's North American still beverages unit, before which he led the company's German business.

If the U.S. confirms that Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile in violation of U.N. resolutions, the U.S. will bring raise the issue with the U.N. Security Council.

Other U.S. diplomatic missions in Turkey -- in Ankara, Izmir and Adana -- will operate normally, the U.S. said, without elaborating on the possible threat.

A number of Boston College students were sickened after eating at one of the burrito chain's restaurants in the city.

Japan dodged recession with the release of its revised third quarter GDP figures as more companies are heeding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s call for increased capital expenditure. Correspondent Meg Teckman reports.

Residents in San Bernardino, coming to terms with a recent mass shooting, react to Donald Trump's call to stop Muslims entering the U.S. Correspondent Paul Chapman reports.

The overhaul of its business highlights the scale of the commodity slump's impact on the mining sector.

Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi wrote a letter to the U.N. saying he has asked Saudi-led coalition to begin a week-long ceasefire on Dec. 15.

The chain said it had temporarily closed its restaurant in Boston's Cleveland Circle, while it works with local health officials to investigate the illnesses.

The S&P materials index fell 2 percent, its steepest fall in three weeks, with Dow Chemical and DuPont both declining.

The maker of K-Cup single-serve coffee pods said Monday it would be bought by an investor group led by Germany's Joh. A. Benckiser Holding Co.

The border province of Kermanshah has a large Sunni Kurdish population that has risen up against Tehran in the past.

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, speaking to a Swiss newspaper, stressed that the conflict was not a war between the West and the Islamic world.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull used his first major economic policy statement to map a path beyond the country's fading resources boom.

Three professors at Malik's university said they had been advised not to talk to the media while men claiming to be from Pakistan's security agencies told reporters to drop their investigations.

Saudi Arabia follows an ultra-conservative form of Islam and is seen by some outsiders as a cause of the international jihadi threat. 

Forty additional Islamic State group militants were injured during the strikes, which were carried out in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.

The Dec. 8-10 meeting will consider a resolution to hold an annual meeting of states that have ratified the Geneva Conventions.

Many of Azerbaijan's oil platforms were build in the Soviet era.

The Belgian capital was home to some of the Paris attackers and a logistical planning base for the operation.

Assad's fate is a sticking point in talks between world powers aimed at finding a political solution to the crisis in Syria.

The National Front (FN) may lead in as many as six out of 13 regions after the first round Sunday.

However, SunTrust analyst Robert Peck says the board may hold off on any decision because of the complexity of some of the options.

The president of Liberty University said Friday that more people should carry concealed firearms as a way to combat terrorism.

The 16-minute message said reports of Mulla Mohammad Omar's death had been deliberately spread to create divisions in the Taliban.