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Sentiment was also soured by weak demand growth, the strong dollar and a broader collapse in other commodity markets.

Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager under fire for buying a pharmaceutical company and ratcheting up the price of a life-saving drug, is in custody following a securities probe.

Pep Boys earlier this month had backed a $15.50-a- share offer from Tokyo-based Bridgestone.

In a short statement, the US State Department said that on Wednesday Washington and Havana had reached “a bilateral arrangement to establish scheduled air services between the two countries”. Based in Miami, Florida, the stations are funded by the United States...

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the single-engine Piper PA32 about 4 p.m.as it was flying from Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose to Henderson Executive Airport near Las Vegas, an FAA spokesman said.

Brent crude oil prices hit their lowest in more than 11 years on Monday, while USA crude flirted with seven-year lows on more signs that swelling global supply looked set to outpace tepid demand again next year.

Asked how she’d feel about traveling to Latin America after the incident, she said, “I won Miss Universe based on the judges’ vote…”

Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager under fire for buying a pharmaceutical company and ratcheting up the price of a life-saving drug, is in custody following a securities probe.

That makes the average price at the pump in Miami-Dade $2.15 a gallon.

The postal service says Monday is its busiest delivery day of the year.

USA crude futures were down 45 cents at $36.71 per barrel, having touched a low of $36.52, a trough since February 2009.

The family of billionaire casino mogul and GOP kingmaker Sheldon Adelson confirmed in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that they are the new owners of Nevada’s largest newspaper, ending a week of speculation and demands by staff, media watchdogs and politicians...

The FBI has confirmed – in an incredible, hard-to-believe-it-exists tweet – that the agency did not seize Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin from Martin Shkreli, following the controversial drug CEO’s Thursday arrest for securities fraud.

A ban on oil exports was put in place in December 1975, with some exceptions. Manufacturing which accounts for about 75 percent of United States industrial production has been under pressure from a strong dollar that makes exports more expensive the global slowdown and moderate...

Shkreli was replaced by Turing Chairman Ron Tilles, who said in a statement that the company was committed to continuing to make its flagship drug, Daraprim, which is used to treat an infection called toxoplasmosis in AIDS patients.