Marriott says that fewer guest records were involved in a previously announced data breach than it initially disclosed. The lodging company said Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, that it now believes that the number of potentially involved guests is lower than the 500 million originally estimated.
The U.S. ambassador to Britain has cast doubts on whether a major bilateral trade deal can be reached if Parliament approves the Brexit proposal from Prime Minister Theresa May
An international trade association says on-the-job slayings of journalists and news media staff rose again in 2018 following an overall decline during the past half-dozen years
The head of the European Union's executive branch is urging Britain to "get your act together" and decide what exactly the country wants as Brexit looms
Tribune Publishing says a computer virus disrupted production of the Chicago Tribune and its other newspapers across the country, the Chicago Tribune reports
California Gov. Jerry Brown is stepping down after signing more than 1,000 laws in his last year that further position California as a goad to Republican President Donald Trump
It's the weekend blame game: Trump tweets he's waiting in the White House for Democrats to 'come on over and make a deal on border security,' despite little direct contact with Democrats
Sears is closing 80 more stores as it teeters on the brink of liquidation. The 130-year-old retailer set a deadline for Friday for bids for its remaining stores to avert closing down completely.
Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert's hedge fund says it submitted a last-minute bid valued at $4.4 billion to keep the struggling retailer from being liquidated
Italy's premier denies that the new budget was dictated by the European Commission, saying that he held firm on key points like the basic income and the rollbacks in an unpopular pension reform
Stocks are wavering between small gains and losses as the market continues to churn amid the volatile trading that has gripped the market throughout December
Elon Musk is asking a California judge to throw out a lawsuit filed against him by a British diver who accused the tech entrepreneur of falsely calling him a pedophile
A federal investigation of a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme has led to criminal charges in Maryland against four women who worked for an Israel-based company
China's government says it has made arrangements for trade talks with US officials in January aimed at ending a dispute that threatens to depress global trade
The legal marijuana industry exploded in 2018, with legalization spreading in the U.S. and across Canada, billions invested in cannabis companies and a cannabis-based drug getting regulatory approval.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 1,000 points _ it's biggest point-gain ever _ as Wall Street notched its best day in 10 years Wednesday, rallying back from a Christmas Eve plunge
An Australian commodities trader has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal court to manipulating market prices by placing orders in the millions of dollars and canceling them within milliseconds to sell smaller orders at a profit
Spend a night at a New Orleans hotel and the tax bite can exceed 15 percent. Mayor LaToya Cantrell says the taxes pull in an estimated $166 million a year, but less than 10 percent goes to city government coffers.
The FBI is grappling with a seemingly endless cycle of money laundering schemes that law enforcement officials say they're scrambling to slow through a combination of prosecution and public awareness
The Baltic nation of Estonia is engaged in the most ambitious project in governance in today's world, creating a totally digital government designed to reduce bureaucracy, increase transparency and boost economic growth
Israeli technology company says business is booming after the chaos that erupted at Gatwick Airport last week, wreaked by rogue drones that exposed the vulnerability of major airports to outside interference
Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly has been released from detention in Japan after being granted bail over the alleged underreporting of his boss Carlos Ghosn's pay
Stocks plunged Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 653 points following President Trump's tweet attacking the Federal Reserve and its independence
The heirs to the Walmart company fortune have been working to make inroads with influential leaders in the black community, even as prominent civil rights groups like the NAACP and Black Lives Matter movement call for a moratorium on new charter schools.
The Bank of Israel's new governor says the country's financial stability should not be taken for granted in a period of "numerous changes in financial markets."
The chief of the Cyprus Association of Banks says the fact that Cypriot lenders have adopted some of the toughest anti-money laundering regulations in the world has not been fully recognized abroad.
South Korea says it will fine BMW $9.9 million and file a criminal complaint against the company over an allegedly botched response to dozens of engine fires
In a flood of new releases, "Aquaman" swam ahead of "Mary Poppins Returns" and "Bumblebee" to lead the busy pre-Christmas weekend with an estimated $67.4 million over the weekend
