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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio travels Monday to Georgia and North Carolina, two of several southern states holding their primaries March 1.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Wednesday it will raise pay for flight attendants and ground workers by 14.5 percent in December and increase matches of employee contributions to retirement accounts.

UPS said Tuesday it will hire 90,000 to 95,000 employees - about the same as last year - to help handle shipping and deliveries over the holiday season.

Renewing his charge against illegal immigration, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday called the United States "a dumping ground for the rest of the world."

Americans stepped up their spending on cars, restaurant meals, groceries and clothing in August, suggesting that consumers will help sustain U.S. economic growth despite a broader global slowdown.

After an intense manhunt, authorities in Mississippi said a college instructor wanted in the deaths of a woman he lived with and a university professor he worked with died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound as police closed in on him.

A Kentucky state trooper was killed in a shooting during a chase, and officers shot and killed the suspect when he refused to drop his weapon after an hours-long manhunt, police said Monday.

Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in Northern California, leaving at least one person dead

Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell is the new Miss America

Stocks are ending moderately higher after overcoming a few early stumbles.