WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO - President Donald Trump fired the federal government's top lawyer Sally Yates after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and saying the Justice Department would not defend his new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations.
MEXICO CITY There are signs the U.S. government is taking a more flexible view of how to pay for its planned border wall with Mexico, and new meetings to craft future bilateral relations could take place soon, a top Mexican official said on Monday.
MOSUL When Islamic State militants swept into Mosul in 2014, they wandered into Manaf Younes' billiards hall and declared it un-Islamic, taking away his billiard balls with a stern warning.
The Boy Scouts of America said on Monday the group would begin accepting transgender boys, bucking its more than a century-old practice of using the gender stated on a birth certificate to determine eligibility.
U.S. brand management company Iconix Brand Group Inc is exploring a sale of its majority stake in Peanuts Worldwide LLC, which owns the rights to cartoon strip characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown, according to people familiar with the matter.
WASHINGTON White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday tried to tamp down the furor over President Donald Trump's reorganization of the National Security Council, saying "nothing has changed."
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO Eight days after Elliott Management disclosed a 7.6 percent stake in LifeLock Inc , managers of the more than $30 billion hedge fund met with executives at the consumer protection company.
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+2.492
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+0.009 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.470
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+0.024 |
| JP10YT=XX |
+0.088
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+0.000 |
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| USD | 1 | 1.0741 | 0.0088 |
| EUR | 0.9301 | 1 | 0.0082 |
| JPY | 113.6600 | 122.0800 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
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| Gold |
1,201.30
USD
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+8.10
Exp: Feb2017
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| Copper |
2.69
USD
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+0.04
Exp: Feb2017
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| Crude Oil |
52.51
USD
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-0.12
Exp: Feb2017
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