Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that both leaders hope Lufthansa can work out a collaboration deal with...

A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican...

Northern Ireland’s long-feuding Protestant and Catholic leaders ended a five-month deadlock Tuesday by agreeing to form a Justice Department that will oversee the...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial...

InBev SA formed the world’s largest brewer Tuesday when it finalized its $52 billion (euro41 billion) takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

A day after giving the National League’s Most Valuable Player honor to Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ends...

A 23-year-old man accused of being involved in a terror plot to kidnap Danish soldiers and use them as hostages has been acquitted by a court.

A fourth suspect has been arrested in the death of a Long Island lawyer who was shot during a botched ambush robbery that police say was set up by the lawyer’s...

A Marine who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation wants a federal appeals court to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case.

Malia and Sasha Obama are in Washington with their mother checking out new schools.

A Worcester woman was charged with raping and beating her teenage niece and forcing her to work for the rest of the household in a “Cinderella-type...

France, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called Tuesday on EU regulators to show flexibility in applying state subsidy rules so governments could...

The father of Chief Justice John Roberts died Tuesday after a long illness, the Supreme Court said.

The Kroger Co. has opened its biggest “Fresh Fare” store yet and plans more of the stores aimed at luring eat-at-home and natural foods shoppers.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial...

The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by workers who claimed the...

The U.S. Navy says a cargo ship has been hijacked off the Somalia coast _ the latest in a series of attacks by pirates operating out of the African country.

United Airlines said on Tuesday that a federal judge has barred its pilot union and four pilots from activities that disrupt the airline’s activities.

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