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.

Another best-selling memoir, another battle over the line between truth and fiction.

Iraq’s prime minister has gone on national television to defend a security pact with the United States that his Cabinet has overwhelmingly approved.

China on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that it is seeking to illegally obtain U.S. space technology after a scientist in the United States was convicted of violating...

Markets should not have been so surprised by the Bank of England’s large 1.50 percentage point rate cut in November because it was justified by the increasingly...

I own a Macbook and I couldn’t tell you how thankful I am that NumberKey is now available. NumberKey helps convert your iPhone into your own personal number key...

Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax...

Seve Ballesteros has been released from intensive care following brain surgery on a malignant tumor.

Smoky skies cleared and once-whipping winds slowed to a standstill Tuesday, as another wave of those who fled Southern California’s ferocious weekend wildfires...

Japanese police posted guards at the homes of former health ministry bureaucrats Tuesday after attacks on the families of ex-officials left two people dead and another...

Wall Street made a hesitant advance Tuesday, with investors refraining from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic data.

The EU’s top labor affairs official said Tuesday there is no further need for Germany, Austria, Belgium and Denmark to keep in place job restrictions on citizens...