Reuters

Any deployments would be narrowly tailored, seeking to advance specific, limited military objectives in both Iraq and Syria, two U.S. officials said.

A quarterly slowdown of Apple's overall sales in China cast doubt on the robustness of the company's legendary profitability.

The German carmaker now faces intense U.S. legal scrutiny including more than 300 lawsuits, mainly from individual drivers of its diesel cars.

Research suggests that a loophole costs Americans an estimated $17 billion every year, Democrat Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said in a report.

The United States and Russia will hold talks on Syria in Vienna on Friday, and have invited Iran, which is widely seen as a key part of any peace deal.

On social media, celebrities, politicians and ordinary consumers reacted to a World Health Organization report linking meats to health risks.

The deal would combine the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. drugstore chains by sales, creating the largest U.S. retail pharmacy chain by numbers of stores.

"The drift of data suggests that the first time the Fed will raise rates will be in the spring," one economist said.

The drug, to be sold under the brand name Imlygic, is an engineered version of a herpes virus that kills cancer cells when injected into cancerous lesions.

The proposal would expand liability protections to companies that choose to voluntarily share cyber-threat data with the government.

Handling holiday shipping profitably and effectively is critical to UPS, which has delivered underwhelming results for the past two Christmas seasons.

The moderation in new home sales is at odds with other housing reports that have painted a bullish picture of the sector.

Investors took cover ahead of central bank meetings in the United States and Japan later this week.

More than a half-million migrants have transited through Greece so far this year, many fleeing Syria's civil war on a short but perilous crossing from Turkey.

ICE said the deal to buy IDC, which provides financial data to banks, money managers and hedge funds, was approved by the boards of both companies.

The broadband provider has said the attack was not as serious as initially feared and it did not believe the suspect would have been able to steal money from its customers.

The police chiefs told a news conference they were not anti-gun but wanted to keep weapons out of the hands of people with criminal backgrounds.

The offering comes at a time when consumer spending is rising, making regional gaming assets once again desirable.

Earnings and revenue have been depressed this year largely because of the strong dollar, weakness in China and Brazil, and tumbling oil and commodities prices.

In one of the worst incidents, at least 12 girls were killed in a stampede to flee their school building in Taloqan, Afghanistan, near the quake's epicenter.

Chase believes its smartphone application, known as Chase Pay, has one key advantage: the caliber of retailers it has brought on board.

By negotiating a two-year budget deal, congressional leaders and the White House may be acknowledging that they will not be able to craft a comprehensive, longer term deficit-reduction package during the remainder of Barack Obama's presidency.

The world's largest retailer has been conducting indoor tests of small unmanned aircraft systems and now seeks to test the machines outdoors.

The ship would likely be accompanied by a U.S. Navy P-8A surveillance plane and possibly a P-3 surveillance plane.

The veteran NBA head coach died after a battle with Hodgkins lymphoma.

The lawyer of Adacia Avery Chambers, 25, said his client is mentally ill and doubted she was drunk at the time of the crash.

The conservative victors won enough votes to govern alone and install policies against refugees, and for a new tax on bank assets, which risk setting Poland on a collision course with the EU.

"The successor Trident program is going to consume more than double the proportion of the defense budget of its predecessor."

If all goes well, it will be first time in Haiti's rocky political history that three democratic elections have been held in succession without interruption by fraud or armed rebellion.