Online spending for October grew at the slowest pace since at least 2001, an Internet research company said Tuesday _ the latest evidence that Web shopping is being...

President-elect Barack Obama’s aides have been privately talking to senators about whether Washington attorney Eric Holder would be confirmed as the next attorney...

The United States’ top intelligence analyst, Thomas Fingar, is leaving the office of the director of national intelligence, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

Chad Toy’s escape from jail wasn’t what shocked his jailers; it was his plea to be let back in. “When I rang the bell at the jail and told them who I...

The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday the Pentagon is developing plans to get troops quickly out of Iraq and into Afghanistan to battle a more confident and...

The setting could pass for a high-tech trading floor: men in dark suits, sitting at tiered banks of desks, studying a steady stream of video and data on...

Big Oil is set to spend billions on new exploration in 2009, but in addition to ocean beds thousands of feet below the water’s surface, major producers are...

Federal biologists say three pesticides common on farms and orchards in the West jeopardize the survival of Pacific salmon.

Deflation might sound like a good thing. Yet it can be even rougher on the economy than the more familiar phenomenon of inflation, because it’s harder to get rid...

A San Diego jury has convicted a man of murder for killing a professional surfer with a punch during a scuffle.

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri admitted Tuesday that he broke state ethics rules for a fourth time by hiring a niece to work in his office.

The government sought Tuesday to dismiss concerns that it might try to delay rollout of the new GI Bill, pledging to be ready to handle growing claims in veterans...

Wall Street retreated in another turbulent session Tuesday, as investors refrained from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic...

Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 17 percent to a five-year low Tuesday after the specialty glass maker lowered its fourth-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect...

Four illegal immigrants were found in the back of a Wal-Mart truck, and the driver and two alleged accomplices were accused of trying to smuggle them through a Border...

Citigroup Inc. shares continued to fall Tuesday, as the struggling bank disclosed it expects consumer loan losses to rise sharply through the first half of 2009.

Pedalers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

A judge dismissed charges against a Filipino doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. military’s health care program by submitting $2 million worth of bogus claims,...

Treasury bonds advanced Tuesday after a government report showed that wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October, a drop that could indicate a rising threat of...

Democratic leaders in Congress on Tuesday threw their weight behind a proposal to use $24 billion in government funds to help struggling borrowers, a move opposed by...