Congress is close to a deal to extend health benefits for more than 22,000 retired miners and widows
McDonald's new uniforms are prompting some teasing online, with comments saying the gray-toned shirts and aprons make employees look like they're part of totalitarian regimes
An Illinois retirement board is terminating the pension that imprisoned former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert receives for his service in the Illinois General Assembly
Trump tax plan cuts top income tax rate from 39.6 to 35 percent, doubles amount taxpayers can deduct
A bill pending in New York's state Legislature would require the state to release the state tax returns of Donald Trump and any other New Yorker holding high office
Twitter's frequent presence in the news _ as the preferred megaphone for President Donald Trump _ has not translated into profit or meaningful user growth for the company
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has ventured into the never-before-explored region between Saturn and its rings
A judge has heard arguments in the fight over whether to release secret grand jury records in the criminal investigation into Rhode Island's $75 million deal with a video game company started by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling
Nordstrom is getting dragged through the mud on social media for selling a pair of dirty-looking jeans for $425
A small Louisiana slaughterhouse has a mission: getting restaurants and home cooks to take a bite out of the state's $74 million-plus in annual damage from feral hogs
The U.S. dollar is mixed against other North American currencies in New York trading. It’s worth 1.36 Canadian dollars, unchanged from late Tuesday. And the dollar is trading at 19.01 Mexican pesos, up from late…
Once home to some 50,000 people whose lives were connected to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat was hastily evacuated one day after the 1986 explosion and subsequent fire spewed a radioactive plume over much of northern Europe
The city of Stockholm says it won't bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics
Boeing Co. is reporting a first-quarter profit of $1.45 billion, beating Wall Street expectations