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US industrial production climbed 0.6 percent in November

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production climbed 0.6 percent on surging output at mines and utilities. But manufacturing production was flat.

The Federal Reserve said Friday that that utility output rose 3.3 percent as power companies were busier because of unusually cold weather. Mining output rose 1.7 percent on higher production at coal mines and oil and gas drillers.

Overall industrial production is up 3.9 percent from November 2017.

But manufacturing was flat in November after falling 0.1 percent in October. Factories are contending with a... Read More

UK's May sticks to her Brexit plan despite rebuff from EU

BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted Friday that her Brexit deal was still alive and kicking, despite a stinging rebuff from the European Union after she asked for changes to make the agreement more palatable to U.K. lawmakers.

May came to an EU summit in Brussels seeking legally binding changes to the agreement, but the bloc told her bluntly that a renegotiation was not possible. They offered only assurances they would seek to move swiftly on forging a new trade deal after Britain leaves the bloc on March 29.

Nonetheless, May told reporters... Read More

The Latest: Serbia seeks urgent UN session over Kosovo army

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The Latest on Kosovo's vote to create an army (all times local):

2:40 p.m.

Serbia's foreign minister says the country will seek an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council over Kosovo's decision to form an army.

Serbia maintains the vote in Kosovo's parliament was in violation of a U.N. resolution on Kosovo brought at the end of the 1998-99 war and NATO's military intervention against Serbia.

NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days in 1999 to stop its crackdown against Kosovo separatists. Kosovo declared independence in... Read More

Ex-Trump lawyer: Hush money paid over election concerns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shaken and facing a prison term, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign because he was concerned about how their stories of alleged affairs with him "would affect the election."

Michael Cohen — who for more than a decade was a key power player in the Trump Organization and a fixture in Trump's political life — said he "gave loyalty to someone who, truthfully, does not deserve loyalty." Cohen spoke in an interview with ABC that aired Friday on... Read More

Autopsy set for migrant girl, 7, who died in border custody

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration officials say an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who suffered seizures in custody and later died.

Officials say the girl was found Dec. 6 near Lordsburg, New Mexico, by U.S. Border Patrol agents. They say the girl was taken into custody for about eight hours and then began having seizures.

Emergency medical technicians discovered her fever was 105.7 degrees Fahrenheit (40.9 degrees Celsius). The Guatemalan girl was airlifted to an El Paso, Texas, hospital, where she died.
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US industrial production climbed 0.6 percent in November

UK's May sticks to her Brexit plan despite rebuff from EU

The Latest: Serbia seeks urgent UN session over Kosovo army

Ex-Trump lawyer: Hush money paid over election concerns

Autopsy set for migrant girl, 7, who died in border custody

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