A senior British Cabinet minister says businesses need to prepare for the possibility the U.K. will leave the European Union in March without an exit deal, as a growing number of British firms say they are stockpiling goods or shifting operations overseas.

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Icy weather conditions prompted officials to shut down Detroit’s main airport as slippery conditions from freezing rain left some Michigan roadways treacherous and shut down some schools.

Greek lawmakers are debating a historic agreement aimed at normalizing relations with Macedonia in a stormy parliamentary session scheduled to culminate in a vote late Thursday. Opponents have announced a series of protests.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is heading to the United States with the hope of improving relations between the two countries.

'Medicare-for-all' makes a good first impression, but support plunges when people are asked if they’d pay higher taxes or put up with treatment delays to get it.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (BOO’-tah-juhj) says he’s taking steps toward running for president.

The Latest on a date set for Thailand’s first election since 2014 coup (all times local):

Austrian police say an 88-year-old woman with links to Austro-Hungarian nobility who was the feared victim of a brazen daytime kidnapping has surfaced unharmed at her daughter’s house.

The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local):