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Cuba's iconic vintage cars have all but disappeared and in their place, small electric tricycles - most of them made in China - have become the primary means of transportation for hundreds of thousands of Cubans grappling with a prolonged fuel crisis ...

Dairy Queen franchisees have shuttered at least 46 locations nationwide since early 2025, with the newest round of closures wiping out all but one of the chain's Alaska restaurants.

When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one of the nation's largest office-to-apartment conversions.

President Trump said he won't sign a bipartisan housing bill and pressed lawmakers to shift their focus to the SAVE America Act, a voter-ID bill that he has pushed the Senate to pass.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used this week's NATO summit in Turkey to push for a new financial system to help struggling allies expand their defense production and security infrastructure.

Stocks rose on Wall Street and oil prices slipped Thursday in the wait to see what will come next after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran.

New York's attorney general sued several large chemical and agricultural companies on Thursday, alleging they knowingly sold harmful so-called forever chemicals used in cosmetics, non-stick cookware and other products.

Pakistan naval search and rescue teams battled rough seas on Thursday as the search for five crew members who went missing after their cargo plane crashed into the Arabian Sea entered its second day, officials said.

Hooters has shuttered all of its restaurants in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Minnesota, leaving those four states without a single location as the wing chain continues working through a bankruptcy-driven restructuring that began last year ...

PepsiCo reported stronger-than-expected revenue in the second quarter despite weaker demand in North America, where it said consumers tightened their budgets as the Iran war caused gas prices to spike.