New York's mayor to oversee annual hot dog contest weigh-in

One of the first lessons one learns in English class is that context is everything. The same holds true in Spanish.

Don't worry, the $652 million plan to deepen Savannah's busy shipping channel remains very much on President Barack Obama's radar, the mayor of Atlanta told coastal business and political leaders Thursday. ...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain.

(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake was 6 miles northwest of the town of Greenville, and near the smaller community of Canyondam, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Allen Shephard, a hunting and fishing guide at Quail Lodge at Lake Almanor in Canyondam, said the quake knocked him "right off the couch and onto the floor." The floor of the lodge was littered with broken dishware, and cabinets were in disarray, said Shephard, 62. ...

You can't listen to the news these days without hearing about how interest rates are at historic lows. In 1981, the 10-year Treasury hit an all-time high of nearly 16 percent. Since then, interest rates have been steadily falling to their current value of around 2 percent. You may be familiar with the relationship between bond investments and interest rates (if not, here's a one sentence answer: bond prices move in the opposite direction of interest rates), but how do interest rates affect the stock market.

Roger Ailes is full of self-righteous outrage that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails as it investigated the leak of classified information about North Korea. It's a recent conversion after leading a news network that has been calling for criminalizing journalism for years.