Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is calling on the government to ramp up efforts to stem home foreclosures that are feeding into the country’s deep economic...

Humbled U.S. automakers pleaded with Congress Thursday to approve an expanded $34 billion rescue package, but heard fresh skepticism from lawmakers in a bumpy encore...

Many of the thousands of troops who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems including depression and...

Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Howard Schultz attempted to calm Wall Street’s fears about the premium coffee company’s sliding sales, profits and stock...

Authorities say a high school freshman in New York City has been struck and killed by a school bus.

French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA is cutting an unspecified number of U.S. sales jobs as part of a realignment of its marketing.

A potential education secretary, Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan, visited the Education Department Thursday morning on what he said was a purely social call.

Canada’s prime minister has asked that Parliament be suspended until next month in an effort to delay a vote that could bring down his new government.

Former Atlantic City Council President Craig Callaway has been sentenced to three years in prison for helping set up a political rival in a videotaped sex session.

A fire has erupted at the Body Shop, a landmark strip club in West Hollywood, Calif., included in the Motley Crue song “Girls, Girls, Girls.”

Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd has come out in favor of federal financial help for the troubled auto industry.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Thursday its fourth-quarter revenue will drop about 25 percent from third-quarter levels due to weaker-than-expected...

Wall Street is taking in a larger-than-expected drop in factory orders with relative calm.

The White House is welcoming Iraq’s approval of a security pact that sets a three-year timeframe for U.S. troops to leave.

Orders to U.S. factories plunged in October by the sharpest amount in over eight years as a deepening recession caused big cutbacks in demand for steel, autos,...

Measles deaths worldwide declined dramatically to about 200,000 a year, continuing a successful trend, global health authorities reported Thursday.

Stocks are down moderately in early trading following discouraging sales reports from many of the nation’s big retailers, and word of big job cuts at AT&T...

Israeli security forces stormed a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron on Thursday, dragging out some 250 settlers who barricaded themselves inside and hurled...

AT&T Inc. joined the recession’s parade of layoffs Thursday by announcing plans to cut 12,000 jobs, about 4 percent of its work force.

Two teenage girls who worked at a nursing home have been charged with abuse, accused of taunting, spitting on and groping the breasts and genitals of residents who...