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Global demand for arms in an increasingly fractious world and an alarmingly depleted U.S. stockpile of long-range weapons are driving a dramatic surge in the American defense industry's production of rockets and missiles.

Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as men must already do.

English phrases once bothered Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro so much that he urged his State of the Union address audience to phase out words like skatepark and fashion.

Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday - spending billions of dollars both in stores and online.

Trump on Saturday once again made his plea for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of his sweeping tariffs.

Chicago sidewalks are host to delivery robots from two companies, and hundreds of residents are so opposed, they've signed a petition to stop them.

The production lines at Indeed Brewing moved quickly, the cans filling not with beer, but with THC-infused seltzer. The product, which features the compound that gets cannabis users high, has been a lifeline at Indeed and other craft breweries as ...

U.S. stocks rose in morning trading as Wall Street puts the wraps on a volatile month.

Republicans have proposed new legislation that would make hiring illegal immigrants an unfair labor practice, giving the federal government a new avenue to punish businesses that recruit them and labor unions that seek to get them to unionize.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premier of Canada's oil rich province of Alberta agreed Thursday to work toward building a pipeline to the Pacific Coast to diversify the country's oil exports beyond the United States.