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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Wednesday he’s gotten more than a million responses to his request for comments on how U.S. currency should be redesigned and recommendations for what woman should become the first female on U.S. paper money in more than a century.

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SAO PAULO, July 29 (Reuters) - Profit at Cielo SA , Brazil's largest card payment processor, fared better than expected in the second quarter, after income from receivables prepayment and better pricing helped propel revenue.

A boy’s best friend is his robot, but on Wednesday afternoon, 11-year-old Matt McClintic seemed willing to settle.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Jamaica's double Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce may change her plans and defend both her 100 and 200 meters titles at next month's world championships in Beijing.

A gas leak that caused eight people on Cannon Street to be evacuated from their homes has been secured, according to officials.

HANCOCK COUNTY -- A fire truck responding to a call of an overturned semi-truck on Interstate 10 in Hancock County near mile marker 13 lost its hose on Mississippi 603,

(Reuters) - World number two Roger Federer has withdrawn from next month's Rogers Cup in Montreal, though he gave no reason for his decision in a statement released by organizers on Wednesday.

The Charleston area soon will have two Whole Foods Market stores.

The S.C. Highway Patrol investigated a double fatality Wednesday involving two vehicles on S.C. Highway 61, according to officials. The crash was reported just after 4:45 p.m., according to Sgt. Bob Beres. The area is between Middleton Place and Magnolia Plantation and Gardens.

Members of the Centre Region Council of Governments have agreed to send the 2016 Program Plan to the municipalities for review and comment.

Quiet falls over the Turf, a minute’s silence please for one of the great broadcast careers. The winners were called by velvet instruction, mellifluous commentary laden with expertise and feeling. Peter O’Sullevan takes with him to the other side a voice of exquisite sensitivity and authority, synonymous with the sport that he covered as the BBC racing correspondent for half a century.

Eight people have been evacuated from their homes and traffic has been shut down along a portion of Cannon Street because of a gas leak.

Celtic’s Champions League prospects became a whole lot brighter after Dedryck Boyata’s late header gave them a narrow victory over Qarabag.

The University of Phoenix, which runs an online college popular among military veterans, is under federal investigation for possible deceptive or unfair business practices, its parent company the Apollo Education Group...

Here is the latest surrounding the suspension of star Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for using underinflated footballs (all times local):

Afghanistan asserted Wednesday that the Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, died more than two years ago in a Pakistani hospital - an announcement that injects new uncertainty into the country's...

There can be no more certain proof of Michel Platini’s unsuitability for the job of Fifa president than the fact that he will almost certainly get it.

WASHINGTON The Republican presidential contest has grown to 17 candidates with Wednesday’s entry of Jim Gilmore.

While James Anderson’s six wickets helped bring Australia’s soaring Ashes campaign crashing back to earth on day one at Edgbaston, the England bowler believes he can bowl even better.

Into the Edgbaston counselling chamber they filed, one by one in their Baggy Green caps mumbling incoherently about a reaper called Jimmy. It was, at least from the English perspective, a deliciously grim inversion of the Lord’s debacle, batsmen shredded by a bowler who would not be contained, and who in the end was taking wickets by reputation as well as merit.

Backpacks and school supplies will fly off the shelves at local stores.

A giant torta becomes the biggest sandwich ever made in Latin America, but fails to set a new world record. Sharon Reich reports.