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For nearly a decade, Marie Jean Pierre showed up to work as a dishwasher at the Conrad Hotel in Miami's posh, high-rise-filled Brickell neighborhood. The Haitian immigrant said she informed the hotel from the time she was hired, in April 2006

US officials have considered lifting tariffs on Chinese imports to calm volatile stock markets and encourage Beijing to make concessions in current trade talks, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

In the weeks since the federal government was paralyzed by a partial shutdown, furloughed workers and their families have learned a painful lesson: At a certain point, with bills piling up and no money coming in, necessity eclipses sentiment. Heirlooms, passion projects and memorabilia are suddenly a means to an end, a way to feed the kids or scrape together a mortgage payment.

For the gadget industry, sleep is the new exercise - solvable with data. What Fitbits and Apple Watches did for getting moving, consumer tech now wants to do for getting Zs. A third of us suffer from sleep problems, a symptom of unhealthy diets, stress and too much time staring at screens.

Phoenix authorities are investigating the death of a newborn found in a trash can at an Amazon distribution center.

President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled the US delegation's trip to the annual international conference at Davos, saying the officials were needed in Washington to tackle the shutdown of the federal government.

The remarkable journey of a multimillion-dollar plan to remove plastic from the Pacific began with a teenager's TEDx talk. In 2012, 18-year-old Boyan Slat proposed an invention to collect garbage from the ocean's surface. His talk went viral.

The fight over the weeks-long government shutdown hit a bizarre new low as President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a planned trip to Afghanistan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a day after she angered Republicans by suggesting the president delay his State of the Union Address.

Authorities in the US state of Georgia have arrested a 21-year-old man who sought to buy explosives and an anti-tank rocket for a "jihad" suicide attack on the White House planned for Thursday.

While his New York Knicks built a halftime lead over the Washington Wizards in London Thursday afternoon, New York center Enes Kanter was explaining to CNN why he hadn't joined his team overseas, and why he fears for his life if he leaves the United States.

Two years after filling the streets of US cities to protest the start of c's presidency, women will march again this weekend to try to build political pressure against him ahead of the 2020 elections.

The US government may have separated "thousands" more immigrant children from their parents than previously known but inadequate record-keeping means the exact number is still unclear, an internal watchdog said on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump's conflict with Democrats over a partial government shutdown escalated on Thursday with Trump denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi use of military aircraft for an overseas trip in apparent retaliation for her suggestion that he delay the annual State of the Union address.

CBS's former CEO Leslie Moonves, fired over sexual abuse allegations, is taking the television network to arbitration to try to get $120 million in severance it refused to pay him.

France will remain "militarily engaged" in the Middle East through 2019 despite the announced US withdrawal from the coalition fighting ISIS terrorists in Syria, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.