The Washington Post's Sally Quinn recently spoke with Ben Carson on the campaign trail about his faith — and how that faith has shaped his worldview, his campaign, and his life. It's a key moment in the Ben Carson origin story: When the candidate was enrolled at Yale, he was woefully unprepared for…

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest news from the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:

DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen's emissions-cheating scandal took a serious bite out of the company's U.S. sales last month.

A long list of seemingly harmless everyday actions contribute to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other climate-altering greenhouse gases. Driving a car and flipping a light switch have a clear "carbon footprint" -- much less obvious is the harm caused by sending a simple text message or…

A debt-stricken Malaysian company linked to corruption allegations swirling around Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday it would sell its power assets to China's biggest nuclear energy producer for $2.3 billion. Malaysian state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) said it had agreed to sell…

By Paul Carsten and Yimou Lee BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Google, part of Alphabet Inc , aims to launch the China version of its Google Play smartphone app store next year, according to people familiar with the matter, its first major foray in the market since ending localized product support in…

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Islamic State sympathizers using social media to spread propaganda and recruit fighters are now drawing an increasing amount of return fire from activists who have been knocking some sites offline and infiltrating others. The loose hacking collective…

U.S.-KURDISH OFFENSIVE IN IRAQ. Kurdish ground forces, backed by U.S. warplanes, have launched a new offensive in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, which Islamic State militants seized last year, killing swaths of the local Yazidi population. [Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition, launch offensive…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are heading lower in early trading, weighed down by weakness in mining and energy companies.

Trace the footsteps of any one person walking inside their local library and what do you see? Everyone's path is different. It's the exact opposite of what typically happens when a person sets out to find a new job, better job or any job. If the person hasn't looked since 2007 or so, they run…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa has canceled 930 flights scheduled for Wednesday at three hubs in Germany after efforts failed to halt an ongoing strike by flight attendants.

President Obama’s chances of shuttering Guantanamo Bay through legislative action may be extinguished this week when the long-awaited defense authorization bill takes its final steps through Congress. Capitol Hill is abuzz with anticipation that the president will soon submit a plan to close the…

Dish Network Corp said its pay-TV subscriber losses accelerated and reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue, reigniting questions around what the satellite-TV provider will do with its trove of wireless airwaves. Dish shares were down 1.6 percent at $62.73 in afternoon trading on Monday after…

Two months ahead of the mega consumer electronics trade show, which will be held January 6-9, 2016 in Las Vegas in the US, several key trends have already emerged. Between the new releases of autumn 2015 and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, at the end of February 2016, there is little…

China's manufacturing activity shrank again in October but the rate of decline in the world's second-largest economy improved, an independent survey showed on Monday. Chinese growth is slowing and media group Caixin said domestic demand continued to fall, although new export business improved. "The…

Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with Amazon in using drones to fill and deliver online orders. The world's largest retailer by revenue has…

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush took aim at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday after e-mails about the attacks in Benghazi were disclosed during a hearing on Thursday. “It's always this, isn’t it, with the Clintons?” Bush said in an interview…

  Hillary Rodham Clinton has caught up to Bernie Sanders in the key early-voting state of New Hampshire, a poll released Wednesday shows. The WBUR survey giving Clinton a four-point lead is the latest to record an upswing for Clinton following last week’s Democratic debate. Her New Hampshire lead…

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said it is rolling out a service that would allow users to run polls on their profile, in a bid to improve user engagement on the microblogging service. Polls were already being tested on Twitter since late September with certain media professionals and Twitter employees,…

By Michael Taylor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said on Monday. Indonesia has come under increased pressure from its neighbours to contain…

Reasons A Triathlon Should Be On Your Bucket List The Seven Reasons You Should Get Off Your Ass And Try A Triathlon I know, I know… It’s a really long race and you’ve never thought of yourself as an athlete. Or you train every day…

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NBA Live 16 is an improved game from last year's offering. But while shooting, passing, and dribbling all feel a bit tighter this year, the changes are too minor to push the total package beyond mediocrity. Some of the core gameplay modes are almost unchanged, and visually, NBA Live 16 floats in an…

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A foundation is laid. I choose gentle white tiles for the floors. The usual amenities--a toilet, a bed--are here. I place bookshelves and create an unobstructed view to the west to see the sunset. The next room over, I’m placing the chair that will kill anyone who ever gets to stay in this building,…

(CNN)Ukrainian authorities had “sufficient reason” to close the airspace over conflict-stricken eastern Ukraine before the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, according to the findings of a Dutch investigation into the crash. The Boeing 777 was heading from Amsterdam to Malaysia when it was shot…

Narratives set within the universe of Minecraft aren't exactly new. A quick search on YouTube reveals thousands of people already telling stories using the world and aesthetics of the hugely popular game (some more successfully than others). But Minecraft: Story Mode has something those thousands…

Nostalgia can be a cruel and misleading force. The part of our brain that wants desperately to relive our past experiences can sometimes trick us into eagerly consuming games and books and movies that ultimately turn out to be crassly recycled garbage merely masquerading as the thing we once loved.…

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