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A billboard displays McDonald’s Corp. signage outside a restaurant in the Times Square neighborhood of New York on Dec. 17. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Michael Nagle

American chain restaurants had a tough year and 2019 looks worse

December 30, 2018 at 11:15 a.m.

After facing stagnant sales and weak customer traffic in 2018, U.S. restaurants will encounter more headwinds next year, including rising food and wage costs, that may stall profit and hinder...

A Wells Fargo bank branch in Evanston, Ill., on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Christopher Dilts

Wells Fargo reaches $575 million settlement for consumer abuses

December 28, 2018 at 12:54 p.m.

Wells Fargo on Friday reached a $575 million settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations it had engaged in various abuses of its customers,...

Trump threatens to close U.S.-Mexico border as shutdown standoff hardens

December 28, 2018 at 9:16 a.m.

Donald Trump threatened Friday to close the U.S.-Mexico border as a week-long partial government shutdown appeared likely to stretch into 2019 because of an impasse over funding for the president's...

Gabrielle Woody, center, with her children, MaKenzie, right, and Kayden Imes at their DC Prep Charter Elementary School campus in Washington, D.C.

Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing kids

December 27, 2018 at 6:39 a.m.

Locked behind their green classroom door, MaKenzie Woody and 25 other first-graders huddled in the darkness. She sat on the vinyl tile floor against a far wall, beneath a taped-up...

A customer pushes a stroller through a Toys “R” Us Asia store in Shanghai, China, on Dec. 9, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Qilai Shen

Under siege in the U.S., toy stores find new life in China

December 25, 2018 at 12:28 p.m.

Toys "R" Us outlets are closed in the U.S., but the brand's stores are still a popular destination for Shanghai resident Pan Wei. A 35-year-old manager for an entertainment company,...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks during his Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 17, 2017. Zinke, MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Zach Gibson.

Zinke鈥檚 departure puts Interior in hands of former oil lobbyist

December 23, 2018 at 12:36 p.m.

A former lobbyist who has played a leading, behind-the-scenes role at the Interior Department driving Trump administration policies to expand drilling and strip wildlife protections is poised to take over...

David Hogg of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School speaks during the “March for Our Lives” rally on Saturday in Washington. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges

Laura Ingraham taunted David Hogg over college rejections. He just said he got into Harvard.

December 22, 2018 at 3:43 p.m.

In mid-December, Harvard's early-entry candidates began logging onto the application status portal to learn whether they'd been accepted to one of the world's most prestigious universities. But for one particularly...

This image was made as the Cassini spacecraft scanned across Saturn and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. MUST CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Saturn鈥檚 rings are halfway to their death

December 22, 2018 at 3:33 p.m.

If dinosaurs had possessed telescopes and the will to gaze skyward 100 million years ago, they might have seen a very different Saturn - one without its iconic rings.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is shown in the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 13, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Melina Mara

Shutdown to stretch until at least Thursday as Senate adjourns with no budget deal

December 22, 2018 at 3:15 p.m.

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced Saturday afternoon that the Senate would shutter for legislative business until Thursday, leaving many federal agencies closed until later next week...

Christopher Watts receives love letters while serving life sentence for murdering pregnant wife, two daughters

December 22, 2018 at 10:11 a.m.

"Greetings from New York, Chris!" a Brooklyn-based woman wrote to Christopher Watts on Aug. 23, days after he admitted to murdering his pregnant wife and young daughters, loading the bodies...

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