New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued banking giant UBS for fraud Thursday, accusing the company of marketing tens of billions of dollars of auction-rate...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday _ at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this...

Sheryl Crow is putting the “Rumours” to rest: She’s not making a record with or joining Fleetwood Mac _ not anytime soon at least.

Three former aides to ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the former head of the state police were charged with ethics violations Thursday over travel records released to...

Picking up hitchhikers can be risky, but this one in northeast Pennsylvania was a bird of a different feather. Jerry Dimick and a friend were driving along Route 307...

House Republicans have killed a Democratic effort to release 70 million barrels of oil from the government’s emergency stockpile. Democrats hoped the extra oil...

One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year has pleaded guilty in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty.

California air regulators on Thursday approved the nation’s toughest rules to reduce harmful emissions from ocean-going ships headed into the state’s...

DMX rapped for reporters outside a Phoenix courtroom after pleading not guilty to felony charges of theft and identity theft.

T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.

Senators on a key tax panel demanded a crackdown on offshore tax havens in the wake of a new report that one building in the Cayman Islands is used as a business...

House leaders on Thursday announced the six members and two alternatives who will make up the Office of Congressional Ethics, an outside independent group created to...

Robert Levy’s record in the Vietnam War was impressive: two Army tours and several honors, including a Bronze Star. It just wasn’t as impressive as he...

Treasury prices rose Thursday after the National Association of Realtors reported that sales of previously owned homes fell in June to the lowest level in a decade and...

A mother accused in Pittsburgh of deliberately injecting her 4-month-old son with salt water will be sent to a state mental hospital after a psychiatrist determined she...

Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a...

Federal regulators accused a Dutch trading firm, its chief executive and two other top employees Thursday of manipulating energy futures contracts on the New York...

A federal commission is working to recruit 2 million poll workers for the November election to help handle what could be a record turnout for the presidential...

Energy market investors tried but failed to start a rally in crude Thursday, and continued to drive natural gas prices sharply lower as a three-week sell-off of that...

Stocks skidded lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales wiped away some of the market’s optimism about upbeat earnings reports....