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Edgy already because you could not pay all you owe in federal income taxes? Well, don't let scammers steal your cash by playing into your fears that the IRS will soon be knocking down your door.

We're hearing reports of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It's a common refrain: If you want to save money for retirement or a down payment for a house, stop buying pricey coffee. Or there's the more recent admonition: Lay off the avocado toast.

Fat chance on that...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Insurers are fretting about the Senate Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act because it would repeal the individual mandate but -- unlike the House bill -- not provide an incentive for people to ...Read more

MUMBAI, India -- When President Donald Trump hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House Monday, the two leaders will share much in common.

Both are political outsiders who champion a muscular, country-...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- At 1,100 feet and the tallest building west of the Mississippi, L.A.'s newest skyscraper is hard to miss.

With a sweeping sail of a roofline, it stands out by day among the flat tops of its tall rivals and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--The American live music scene has become a culture of super festivals. Beyond the massively successful Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, the last two decades have seen a tremendous expansion of events that...Read more

BOGOTA -- The father of a Venezuelan man gunned down by authorities this week made a very personal appeal to President Nicolas Maduro -- saying the president had been his co-worker and had met his son as a child.

Speaking...Read more

The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected by the federal government for more than four decades.

That will begin to change next week.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke this week said the agency intends ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Ivanka Trump must answer questions in a lawsuit over whether her company ripped off a rival's shoe design, as a judge rejected her claim that she's too busy a "high-ranking government official" in the White ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The Trump administration has yet to award contracts to build prototypes of a U.S.-Mexico border wall even though construction was originally pegged to begin this week in San Diego, public records show.

While ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dean Heller came out in opposition Friday to draft legislation released Thursday that would overhaul the U.S. health insurance system.

"This bill that's currently in front of the United States Senate is...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A live Asian carp was caught beyond electronic barriers meant to keep the invasive species out of the Great Lakes, just nine miles from Lake Michigan, state and federal government officials confirmed Friday. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump nominated Jamie McCourt, former co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, to be the ambassador to Belgium on Thursday night.

McCourt, who co-owned the Dodgers with her husband, Frank, until...Read more

BEIRUT -- Four Arab countries locked in a blockade of Qatar since June 5 have issued a list of 13 demands posted online by Doha-based Al-Jazeera that the Persian Gulf nation is unlikely to accept:

1) Scale back diplomatic...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump signed into law Friday a bill that will ease restrictions on the discipline and termination of employees from the troubled Veterans Affairs department.

The Accountability and ...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Venezuela's opposition is asking demonstrators to shut down all traffic for two hours Friday to protest the point-blank shooting death of a 22-year-old protester on Thursday in Caracas.

The call comes ...Read more

MEXICO CITY -- After President Donald Trump incorrectly tweeted that Mexico is the second deadliest country in the world after Syria, the Mexican government responded quickly.

No, Mexico isn't the second deadliest place ...Read more

FERGUSON, Mo. -- A federal judge on Tuesday approved a secret civil settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown over his 2014 fatal shooting.

Apollo Carey, city attorney for Ferguson, ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Sears Holdings Corp. is closing 20 more stores.

Those closings -- including 18 Sears and two Kmart stores -- follow 150 stores Sears shuttered in the first quarter of this year and another 66 expected to close ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are moving quickly to address concerns about lawmaker safety after last week's shooting incident at the GOP baseball practice, including by making fiscal 2017 funding available for security ...Read more