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Discount grocer Aldi announced plans Monday to build 700 more stores in the United States by 2022, bringing the total to 2,500....Read More

An explosion in Marengo, Ill., leveled two houses, damaged about 50 others and injured two people, emergency officials said....Read More

Microsoft unveil its most powerful gaming system yet, the new Xbox, Sunday at the annual E3 Expo in Los Angeles....Read More

A strong storm caused minor property damage and left more than 130,000 customers in central Minnesota and western Wisconsin without power Sunday....Read More

Between 250 and 650 retail stores including Ann Taylor, Dress Barn, Loft and Lane Bryant are closing, owner Ascena Retrail Group announced....Read More

At least one winning Powerball ticket worth an estimated $447.8 million was sold in California, the seventh largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history....Read More

Demonstrators spurred by one of the largest grass-roots anti-Muslim groups in the United States rallied against Sharia law over the weekend....Read More

The U.S. Navy commissioned the third naval ship after a living woman: former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011....Read More

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, five days after fired FBI Director James Comey appeared before thepanel....Read More

Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Season, the planned world’s largest cruise ships, floated out of dry d dock for the first time while under construction....Read More