Leaders of a White House commission laid out a plan to cut the federal budget deficit by hundreds of billions a year by targeting sacrosanct areas of U.S. tax and spending policy.
The U.S. and South Korea will keep working on a free-trade deal as they attend the G-20 and APEC meetings.
The outcome will turn on write-in votes, and initial results suggested Alaska may avoid a drawn-out battle over the validity of votes for incumbent Lisa Murkowski.
A small but growing number of Democratic lawmakers are calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to abandon her plan to run for the post of minority leader in the new Congress
A bomb found in Britain on a UPS plane last month was primed to go off over the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., British police said.
Big ticket items can still be found among Saturday's sale of Bernard and Ruth Madoff's belongings, but so can used socks, bed linens, cuticle scissors and makeup brushes.
Google is fighting off Facebook and other fast-growing Internet firms that are poaching its staff, a reversal for a company that has long been one of Silicon Valley's hottest job destinations.
Unions are increasingly looking to the National Labor Relations Board to seek favorable workplace rulings, and the agency is showing a willingness to reopen matters previously decided in favor of employers.
The Obama administration is moving to give states broad leeway to decide how best to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases from factories, refineries and other industrial facilities.
A pair of MIT economists have come up with a method to scour the Internet for online prices on millions of items and then use them to calculate inflation statistics for a dozen countries on a daily basis.
Attorney General Eric Holder said a decision is near on where to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other confessed plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
With the Republicans' takeover in Michigan, Gov.-elect Rick Snyder has political latitude to push his campaign's signature proposal: a lower, simpler business tax. What he hasn't done yet is reveal how he intends to offset it.
Cash-strapped Hydro, Okla., decided last year it could no longer afford a dog catcher, and put the police in charge. The two-officer force, wearing two hats, now finds itself at the center of a controversy.
Creating a public health insurance option -- perhaps the most contentious idea of last years health overhaul debate -- is among the possible solutions for reducing federal spending outlined in today's debt commission report.
President Barack Obama used the backdrop of Indonesia's teeming, multiethnic capital to restart a "New Beginning" with the Muslim world.
The relationship between Obama and Boehner suggests dim prospects for bipartisan compromise in Washington's soon-to-be divided government.
The shock value is part of the allure of owning a meter-maid vehicle, as a fringe of motorists across the U.S. are ditching cars for retired three-wheeled utility vehicles.
The U.S. trade gap contracted in September amid a decline in overall imports and rise in exports. Separately, weekly jobless claims declined.
Graphic images depicting dead bodies and diseased lungs were unveiled by federal health officials as part of a move to require bolder health warnings on cigarettes and advertising.
What it takes to run one of the country's busiest restaurants on a Saturday night in Las Vegas. Tao, where the average check is about $70 a person, requires 57 cooks, eight chefs, 26 servers and 10 hostesses.
One of the Bay Area's most powerful political players these days is a nurses' union, which helped torpedo Meg Whitman's efforts to become governor and boosted the prospects of Jerry Brown.
G-20 leaders neared an agreement that appears to paper over many differences, but one that's unlikely to end tension over currency and trade policies.
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Two top Senate Democrats floated the idea of extending the Bush-era income-tax rates for a limited time only, and tying that move to an overhaul of the U.S. tax code or passage of policies to address the budget deficit.
Sale suggests that values for contemporary art are on the rebound.
Four men now face strategic decisions that will shape the political economy of the U.S.: Barack Obama, Republican congressional leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
In Off the Beaten Track, reporter Alina Dizik counsels vacationers on what to do, where to eat and where to stay in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
There's a fresh fizz to the contemporary-art market these days that's been largely driven by sales of Pop classics by Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others.
Architecture lectures commonly involve laser pointers and slides. In his, architect Tuomas Toivonen prefers throbbing bass and electronic drums.
Anna Sandoval, who introduced bingo and then casino gambling to the Sycuan Indians, and in the process helped to lift her small California tribe from destitution to prosperity, dies at 76.
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