10+ hour, 56+ min ago   (362+ words) A Pennsylvania woman has died from complications associated with measles, the third death in the state this year involving the virus. The 40-year-old woman died Saturday, Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said in a Facebook post in which he called…...

23+ hour, 50+ min ago   (293+ words) BEIJING – Beijing is banning the possession of drones within city limits in new rules announced Sunday that further tighten its regulations on drones, which already include a May ban on sales of the devices. The ban on possession will come…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (566+ words) MELBOURNE – Mike Evans, Demarcus Robinson and Deebo Samuel caught touchdown passes from Brock Purdy, and the San Francisco 49ers routed the Los Angeles Rams 27-7 Friday in the first NFL regular-season game in Australia. Purdy passed for 205 yards against the Rams' ineffective…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (279+ words) NEW YORK – The MTV Video Music Awards are returning to the West Coast this month and they've got a very West Coast host — Snoop Dogg. The rapper and entrepreneur will MC the telecast live from Los Angeles on Sept. 27, marking…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (625+ words) Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to cut the maternal mortality rate in…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (440+ words) Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said the agency that regulates television “threatened” the show and that an interview with James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will not air on television but on YouTube — thus bypassing any…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (369+ words) Jean-Yves Kamale And Mark Banchereau KINSHASA – The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in eastern Congo is rapidly spreading beyond its epicenter, Africa’s top health body said Thursday. In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (515+ words) A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the emergency…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (199+ words) NEW YORK – Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers — a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement. “I remember somebody told me that when Ray(mond)…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (836+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...