Two Japanese auto parts suppliers will pay more than a half billion dollars for price fixing in a vast conspiracy in the US automotive market, the Justice Department said Monday.

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Occupy DC protesters defied a threatened police clampdown on their tent colony on Monday, pitching a massive 'tent of dreams' in the park near the White House they took over four months ago.

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President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed that US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan - operations that until now had not been officially acknowledged.

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The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has urged the UN Security Council to act 'fast' on Syria, and make it clear to its regime that the international community views its actions as a 'threat' t

Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons, who helped steer the bank through the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, is considering stepping down after three years in the post, The Wall Street Journal re

The initial talks between the US and Taliban in Qatar on the release of five of the militant group's prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center have failed, a media report said on Monday.

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Top Republican official Reince Priebus sparked a political uproar on Sunday by comparing President Barack Obama to disgraced Italian ship captain Francesco Schettino.

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A strong earthquake measuring 6.3 shook an area in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of central Peru on Monday, US government researchers said.

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Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is due to step down next month, arrived in the United States on Saturday for medical treatment, an embassy spokesman in Washington said.

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Taliban negotiators have begun meeting with US officials in Qatar, where they are discussing preliminary trust-building measures aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported on