Ford Motor Co. posted its worst quarterly loss ever Thursday in a roiling global auto market that also saw profits fall at Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Co. and AutoNation...

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...

A 21-year-old woman was attacked by a grizzly bear about 25 yards from an Alaskan lodge.

The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said...

The Federal Reserve says banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from its emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms took a pass.

Air Force officials say three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices earlier this month, triggering an...

A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation.

An ex-convict has been sentenced to life in prison for the sadistic, 19-hour rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student.

Federal regulators say the operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins.

Like other major drugmakers, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. saw benefits from the weak dollar in the second quarter, as sales grew at a faster rate...

Energy market investors managed to win back modest gains Thursday following oil’s big drop a day earlier, but again drive natural gas prices sharply lower as a...

A 21-year-old woman was attacked by a grizzly bear about 25 yards from an Alaskan lodge.

The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation aimed at improving the safety of the nation’s bridges, nearly a year after the deadly collapse of an Interstate...

One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year pleaded guilty Thursday in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors will not seek the...

Tribune Co. is inviting at least three potential buyers who each submitted bids for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field near or above $1 billion to participate in a...

Add one more item to the long list of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans: Whether it was appropriate for The New Yorker magazine to publish a cover...

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...