In a passionate speech introducing Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania this afternoon, Hillary Clinton gave a strong endorsement to Barack Obama by...

Commodities prices shot up Monday as U.S. and European governments intensified their efforts to revive the global banking sector _ prodding investors to put some of...

A financial industry official says the Bush administration has decided to greatly expand protections for the U.S. banking system out of concern for the faltering...

The doctor has again ordered Janet Jackson to postpone a return to her “Rock Witchu” tour.

Republican John McCain delivered his toughest criticism so far of President Bush’s economic policies as he unveiled a new campaign stump speech that promised an...

The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global...

“Beverly Hills Chihuahua” kept audiences on the leash as it retained the top spot at the box office, fetching $17.5 million in its second weekend.

A new phenomenon has been recently occurring among the homeless and that’s the increasing numbers of older, White people who are losing their homes and being...

Florida Congressman Tim Mahoney has called for an ethics investigation of himself amid reports that he had an affair and then paid the woman to keep quiet.

Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones...

Morgan Stanley averted disaster with a $9 billion lifeline from a major Japanese bank, and on Monday declared it will use that money to pick off smaller rivals.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

When David Teater’s 12-year-old son, Joe, was killed in 2004 by a driver who was talking on a cell phone, he tried to cut back on his own habit of driving and...

The NBA is eliminating about 80 jobs in the United States, the first major American sports league to announce layoffs because of the worldwide economic turmoil.

Wall Street stormed back from last week’s devastating losses Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials soaring a nearly inconceivable 936 points after major...

The U.S. automotive sales slump worked its way to two Midwestern automaking towns Monday when General Motors Corp. announced it would close a Michigan metal stamping...

Campbell Soup Co. found that selling its products to soup lovers in other countries isn’t as easy as it seems.

With Russian troops pushing into Georgia, Keith Harrison was working his e-mail back in Cincinnati.

Agriculture futures rose Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donated organ.